Culture War Comes for the Kids

When the Culture War Comes for the Kids - статья в Atlantic, как всегда бесконечно длинная. Caught between a brutal meritocracy and a radical new progressivism, a parent tries to do right by his children while navigating New York City’s schools.

a few quotes:

We consoled ourselves that the school wasn’t right for our family, or we for it. It was a school for amoral finance people.
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The school had delicious attributes. Two teachers in each class of 15 children; parents who were concert pianists or playwrights, not just investment bankers;
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the creatives would dwindle and give way to the financials.
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The claim of democracy doesn’t negate meritocracy, but they’re in tension.
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...radically egalitarian ideology
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Everyone sensed that failing to opt out would be unpopular with the principal, the staff, and the parent leaders—the school’s power structure.
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The school didn’t inform parents of this sudden end to an age-old custom, as if there were nothing to discuss. Parents only heard about it when children started arriving home desperate to get to the bathroom after holding it in all day.
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When our daughter saw pictures of the actual Founding Fathers, she was shocked and a little disappointed that they were white.
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It did not seem like a moral victory for our children to grow up hating their species and themselves. We decided to cut down on the political talk around them.

also the whole paragraph starting with I had barely encountered an American public school since leaving high school.

ну и финал, конечно, section 9, про “N-word passes”

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