Parents sue elite schools, Andrew Gutman runs for office

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Interesting article on what some conservatives think a liberal education should be. And the note in the article that most of the elite feeder schools are liberal and are trying to be race and equality concious. Apparently that offends someone so much, that Andrew Gutman has decided it makes a great central campaign issue. 

He could just try to start whatever school or schools featuring a "classical liberal arts" program which I think just means teach what he remembers being taught and stay away from this racial awareness stuff. Because just pulling his child out of school or starting a school with his values is apparently too much work.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/parents-sue-elite-schools-for-indoctrinating-their-kids-with-anti-racist-policies/ar-AA1bwpOw?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=87c350580bb646a3886a65604ba8da22&ei=11


Former investment banker Andrew Gutmann caused a stir two years ago when he wrote a letter to other parents at Manhattan’s Brearley School urging them to reject Brearley’s “obsession with race” and saying he was pulling his daughter, Lauren, from the top-ranked school, where tuition is about $60,000.


Brearley head Jane Fried shot out an email calling the letter “deeply offensive and harmful” and reaffirming the school’s commitment to being “inclusive” and “antiracist.”


Gutmann said in an interview that his family wasn’t “looking for a conservative education.” He said they “just want what anybody would’ve used to call a traditional liberal arts education.”

Gutmann clearly has no regrets. Now living in Boca Raton, Florida, he is even running for Congress on the issue, as a Republican in Florida’s 22nd congressional district — which, he notes, includes Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. His primary campaign announcement starts by recounting his letter to Brearley.

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About (From LinkedIn, does not want to post the link)

I joined the nationwide movement fighting for classical liberal values and against wokeness and critical race theory in schools when the letter I wrote to the parents of my daughter’s New York City private school, The Brearley School, went viral. Since then, I have become an activist in this movement, writing about the issue, speaking to parents and parent groups, founding the organization, Speak Up For Education (SpeakUpForEducation.org) and cofounding the Institute for Liberal Values (ilvalues.org). I also host the podcast Take Back Our Schools (https://ricochet.com/series/take-back-our-schools/) on the Ricochet Audio Network and my writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, the New York Post and Bari Weiss’s Common Sense. I am also a former investment banker, software engineer, entrepreneur and author of the book, How To Be an Investment Banker.

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a traditional liberal arts education would be highly inclusive and deeply interested in the nexus between our political past and our sociological present.

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May 23, 2023 16:12:32 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

a traditional liberal arts education would be highly inclusive and deeply interested in the nexus between our political past and our sociological present.

Exactly. He and other parents like them don't realize they are telling all of us they have no idea what a real liberal arts education is. They probably only remember how it was back then, for them. Wherever and whenever it happened.


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