Everybody on earth gets just one childhood. Nobody affects their experience of childhood like the parents. It's a potentially daunting responsibility that some adults don't want to take on, but that most will do.
Good parenting is not perfect parenting. But do your best to be a good parent (it will often require courage). Today and tomorrow the posts are about parents trying to guide their kids' childhoods toward good outcomes. The stories are from earlier this year. First, from last June:
Two months ago, a dad in New York City wrote a letter to parents of students at his daughter's private school. It voiced the alarmed concern of many of the school's parents. It went viral.
He objects to the school's empty claim to favor diversity. If it really did, it wouldn't work so hard at indoctrinating students and families to a single mindset.
He objects to the school's empty claim to favor equity. If it really did, it would cease preferring rich and connected students for admission.
He objects to the school's empty claim to favor inclusiveness. If it really did, its curriculum would not drive every child into one of two classes, oppressors and oppressed.
He objects to the school's support for the Black Lives Matter organization. He objects to the censoring of good books simply because of dated language. He objects to grade inflation and reduced standards for classwork.
He objects to the school teaching racism while it claims to favor anti-racism. Its policies are "misguided, divisive, counterproductive and cancerous." And he calls on other parents to speak up.
from bariweiss
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