Panic Dissipating?

An item in this morning's news caught my eye: the head of Manhattan's uber-elite Dalton School is resigning, apparently due to pressure from parents who objected to his woke agenda.

Keep in mind that the true indicator of social standing isn't whether you went to an Ivy, it's the private secondary school you attended. The parents of those students have money and influence. Wokeness so far has been a form of preemptive submissioin by media, university, and corporate elites. If Dalton parents are dropping the program, this is an acknowledgement that it isn't working out for those elites.

In January, an anonymous group of parents wrote a letter objecting to Dalton’s new guidelines.

“Every class this year has had an obsessive focus on race and identity, ‘racist cop’ reenactments in science, ‘de-centering whiteness’ in art class, learning about white supremacy and sexuality in health class,” the letter read, according to the NY Post.

“Wildly inappropriate, many of these classes feel more akin to a Zoom corporate sensitivity-training than to Dalton’s intellectually engaging curriculum,” the parents added in their letter.

By February, the school’s director of DEI (“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”) Domonic Rollins stepped down “in pursuit of other opportunities.”

The big takeaway here is that this isn't your grandfather's PTA. Not only did they complain, but they had the juice to get people fired.