Credit: Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism via Twitter
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A Black Columbia University professor called on New Jersey parents to pull their kids out of a prestigious New Jersey prep school after an English teacher resigned over what she says is being negatively affected by critical race theory.
All hail Dana Stangel-Plowe, who has resigned from the Dwight-Englewood school, which teaches students "antiracism" that sees life as nothing but abuse of power, and teaches that cringing, hostile group identity against oppression is the essence of a self. https://t.co/yxr2WaUfnB
— John McWhorter (@JohnHMcWhorter) June 8, 2021
“All hail Dana Stangel-Plowe, who has resigned from the Dwight-Englewood school, which teaches students “antiracism” that sees life as nothing but abuse of power, and teaches that cringing, hostile group identity against oppression is the essence of a self,” McWhorter said in a tweet. “Truly antiracist parents, in the name of love of their kids, should pull them from the Dwight-Englewood school as of next fall. Only this will arrest these misguided Elect parishioners from their quest to forge a new reality for us all.”
Stangel-Plowe had her resignation letter posted on the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) website, which was founded to combat critical race theory teachings in school and promote a “pro-human” agenda.
“I believe that D-E is failing our students,” Stangel-Plowe said in her letter. “Over the past few years, the school has embraced an ideology that is damaging to our students’ intellectual and emotional growth and destroying any chance at creating a true community among our diverse population. I reject the hostile culture of conformity and fear that has taken hold of our school.”
“As a result, students arrive in my classroom accepting this theory as fact: People born with less melanin in their skin are oppressors, and people born with more melanin in their skin are oppressed. Men are oppressors, women are oppressed, and so on. This is the dominant and divisive ideology that is guiding our adolescent students,” she adds in the letter. The post on FAIR also details faculty and school-wide action plans which she strongly disagreed with.
https://twitter.com/dstangelplowe/status/1402432732379164675
Stangel-Plowe taught English to high school students at Dwight-Englewood since 2014. McWhorter, an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia, has gotten a significantly larger following on social media for his criticisms of critical race theory and commentary on racism.
