[Crimson Dynamo]

Dad who wrote scathing letter to Brearley about race focus:

‘Someone had to’

A father fed up with an elite Manhattan prep school’s heavy-handed focus on
race won’t re-enroll his daughter in the fall, accusing the school of trying to
“brainwash” kids with woke philosophies rather than teaching them how to
think on their own.

In a scathing 1,700-word letter Andrew Gutmann mailed to 650 families — a
screed since gone viral — he blasted the posh, all-girls Brearley School’s
“cowardly and appalling lack of leadership [for] appeasing an anti-intellectual,
illiberal mob.”



Chelsea Clinton, Tina Fey, Drew Barrymore and Steve Martin are among
those with daughters enrolled at Brearley. Tuition is $54,000 per year.
Famous alumnae of the 761-student, K-12 school include Caroline Kennedy,
Jill Clayburgh, Téa Leoni and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

Gutmann said it was all too much for him and he finally put his pen to paper.

“Someone had to do it,” he said. “Someone had to light the match.
Everyone’s so afraid of cancel culture. We’re going to destroy the city, we’re
going to destroy the country.”

Gutmann said the school managed to sneak in the increased emphasis on
race during the pandemic when everyone was distracted. He said the once-
rigorous curriculum completely changed over the summer.

“I don’t know who’s really driving this and nobody does,” he said.

read his hard hitting letter here: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/you...ad-this-letter


link to NYPost article below:

https://nypost.com/2021/04/17/dad-wh...omeone-had-to/