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Posted on A School in Bury St Edmunds has been told that it needs to improve its safeguarding following a follow up inspection. County Upper School was found to be inadequate back in 2019 due to its poor safeguarding of pupils. In a letter to parents, last night headteacher Nick Froy said that following a follow-up inspection safeguarding was again judged not to be effective. Mr. Froy said “We know from the amazing support the school receives that many of you will feel the same frustratio...

Andrew Gutmann, 45, wrote a letter blasting the $54,000-a-year Brearley School over its woke antiracism obsession  He said he has chosen not to reenroll his daughter in the all-girls school Gutmann told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview that he never intended his scathing letter to go viral but now welcomes the controversy he sparked I wrote the letter for my daughters school, not for the world, he said. I did this because Im a concerned dad and it felt like it was the right thing to do...

Brearley Headmistress Decries Letter Opposing Race-Based Curriculum Written by Dad as Deeply Offensive, Harmful On 4/19/21 at 5:07 PM EDT The head of New York Citys Brearley School, Jane Fried, called a letter written by the father of a former Brearley student opposing the all-girls prep schools race-based curriculum "deeply offensive and harmful." In an email sent to the school community, Fried addressed the 1,700-word letter written by Andrew Gutmann, a former investment banker whose 12-year-...

Someone had to speak out: Father who pulled his daughter from NYCs $53K-a-year Brearley School over its antiracism woke weaning obsession says its teaching kids what to think - as school slams him for being offensive Andrew Gutmann, 45, had announced in an April 13 letter posted by Bari Weiss this week that he has chosen not to reenroll his daughter in the all-girls school Gutmann said on Saturday that he penned the 1,700-word letter he mailed to 650 different families because someone had to sp...

A New York mayoral candidate and ex-MSNBC contributor who wants to end racist testing to determine who gets into the citys elite schools had her own daughter use the program - while her other daughter attends a $51,000-a-year private school.   Maya Wiley called for the abolition of the citys Gifted and Talented program to identify high-achieving students and the removal of all forms of pre-admission testing, claiming they entrenched white privilege.  Despite this, she sent her eldest daught...

Two ritzy private schools in New York City are in administrative and public relations HELL right now as a result of their activist and/or morally weak faculty’s embracing of critical race theory and the woke “social justice” mob. Or, as the author of the letter mentioned in the headline describes it, the schools’ “gutting of the history, civics, and classical literature curriculums” in favor of “vacuous, inappropriate, and fanatical use of words such as ‘equity,’ ‘diversity�...

katieshirreffsApril 15, 2021 It was near the end of Westridge’s Modern Middle East class when some students began clicking the leave button to exit the Teams meeting. They had just finished watching a movie and were about to head on to their second class of the day. But as they started to filter out, one student had a quick question to ask the class, “What did you think about the Syrian missile strike?”   The student’s question referred to the United States’ airstrike on Jan. 13, wh...

Musa Okwonga: ‘Boys don’t learn shamelessness at Eton, it is where they perfect it’ ‘I think it is unlikely many of my contemporaries have had a close black friend, and so I don’t want to conform to any stereotypes,’ Musa Okwonga writes. Photograph: Kasia Zacharko/The Guardian ‘I think it is unlikely many of my contemporaries have had a close black friend, and so I don’t want to conform to any stereotypes,’ Musa Okwonga writes. Photograph: Kasia ...

The nations leading business publication wrote: “Very little visible student learning was going on in the majority of classrooms and schools we visited—most especially in the middle and high schools,” the report says. “Our review teams encountered many teachers and students who do not feel safe in school. There is widespread agreement that bullying, demeaning, and even physical violence are occurring within the school walls at very high levels.”   Gorbea says she doesnt comment on is...

Education The Social Order The Society of Friends has educated children in America since 1689, when William Penn urged his new city, Philadelphia, to open Penn Charter. Over the centuries, Quaker schools became some of the East Coast’s most prestigious educational institutions. That legacy of excellence, though, is now in jeopardy as Quaker schools embrace critical race theory, undermining more than 300 years of commitment to objective truth and betraying the tenets of Quakerism itself. This ...