{"id":113557,"date":"2021-01-30T12:40:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T17:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=113557"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T15:43:16","slug":"elite-private-school-students-anonymously-accused-school-officials-of-racism-the-school-caved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-private-school-students-anonymously-accused-school-officials-of-racism-the-school-caved\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite Private School Students Anonymously Accused School Officials Of Racism. The School Caved."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felite-private-school-students-anonymously-accused-school-officials-of-racism-the-school-caved%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=113557&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>One of New York\u2019s most elite private schools was subjected to a revolt last year when privileged students claimed to be oppressed and victims of racism.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Rufo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/black-at-unis-campaign\">reported<\/a> in City Journal the saga of the United Nations International School, the $44,000 dollar a year private school that teaches children of the elite how to succeed in business, finance, and technology. The Institution is thoroughly left-leaning, holding \u201cthree days of counseling\u201d and \u201ca series of emergency assemblies where tearful students ranted about being deported,\u201d after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. Faculty and staff also allegedly scoffed when then-U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley enrolled her children at UNIS.<\/p>\n<p>As Rufo reported, students at the elite institution \u201claunched an anonymous social media campaign denouncing the school\u2019s teachers and administrators for their \u2018vast history of systemic racism,\u2019 \u2018white liberal racist thinking,\u2019 and \u2018direct, intentional, repeated racial trauma.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The campaign began when some students started an Instagram account called Black at UNIS, making dozens of vague, anonymous accusations of the school itself and also specific teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accusations ranged from \u2018microaggressions\u2019 (one teacher \u2018used to mix up names of Black students\u2019) to \u2018white leadership failure,\u2019 such as refusing to hire black teachers and ignoring the bullying of black students. The Instagram campaign demanded that the school \u2018fire the racist principals,\u2019 threatened to begin naming their \u2018oppressors,\u2019 and pledged a policy of no mercy: \u2018No one is obligated to protect you from those consequences and no one is obligated to forgive you,\u2019\u201d Rufo reported.<\/p>\n<p>Months later, the students would launch an online petition with a list of demands, claiming that \u201cfor too long, UNIS has carefully curated the illusion of itself as a multicultural utopia while Black students and other marginalized groups suffer from a culture of ignorance and isolation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rufo reported that the group \u201cdemanded that the school hire a director of diversity and inclusion, institute mandatory antiracism trainings, \u2018decolonize\u2019 the curriculum, create \u2018safe spaces\u2019 for minorities, support the \u2018exploration of diverse gender identities,\u2019 reject the \u2018Eurocentric focus of mainstream academia,\u2019 and push an \u2018agenda of intersectionality.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>School administrators immediately caved to the students, without any kind of investigation into their allegations. Dan Brenner, the school\u2019s executive director, sent an email to parents just days after the Instagram account was created saying UNIS was \u201ccommitted to creating solutions to ensure an anti-racist environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within months, Brenner \u201chired a diversity-consulting firm to conduct antiracist trainings, created a student-led antiracist board, began overhauling the academic curriculum to reflect the new orthodoxy, and hired a full-time Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,\u201d Rufo reported.<\/p>\n<p>A staff member told Rufo that school was \u201ccurrently in the grips of a mania,\u201d adding that some employees \u201csee this \u2018antiracist training\u2019 as pure indoctrination, but do not know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Rufo noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The dynamics at this bastion of elite progressivism reveal something important about the American political environment. The children of the most privileged people on the planet have donned the mantle of oppression to satisfy their moral narcissism and to exercise power over their elders. The adults, crippled with anxiety about any threat to their status, immediately bow to anonymous teenagers leading an online mob.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the same basic pattern now spreading through most major institutions in the country, from federal agencies to state boards of education to Fortune 500 companies. More than anything, what\u2019s needed in America today is moral courage\u2014precisely the virtue that has vanished from those who administer our institutions.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of New York\u2019s most elite private schools was subjected to a revolt last year when privileged students claimed to be oppressed and victims of racism. 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