Frustrated dad sues swanky LA school over ‘racially divisive, anti-Semitic’ curriculum

The Brentwood Faculty known as the allegations "baseless" in a press release.
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An elite personal highschool in LA has been sued by a mum or dad who says directors pulled off a “bait and swap” with the syllabus to push a brand new curriculum that was “racially divisive.”

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in an LA court docket, Jerome Eisenberg sued the Brentwood Faculty for breach of contract, violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act – which protects people from discrimination by California companies – and intentional infliction of emotional misery, amongst different claims, based on media reviews.

Eisenberg mentioned his daughter was kicked out of the $50,000 per yr college after he complained about what he alleged was “anti-Semitic” discrimination on the college following a brand new curriculum put in after the Could 2020 demise of George Floyd.

He mentioned the college held racially segregated conferences and inspired college students to deal with Jewish folks as “oppressors'” and discriminated towards a Jewish group of fogeys. 

“All the pieces at Brentwood radically modified after the demise of George Floyd,” the lawsuit acknowledged. “‘After accepting dad and mom’ tuition funds, Defendants Brentwood and its head of faculty, Michael Riera, pulled a bait-and-switch with the college’s curriculum and tradition.”

Ibram X. Kendi’s “Stamped,” which Eisenberg mentioned included “ahistorical” writing was added to the college’s curriculum.

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Eisenberg accused the college directors of changing its conventional instructing with “an identity-based ideology of grievance, resentment, and racial divisiveness” and “began indoctrinating [students] into what to suppose, based mostly on Brentwood’s most popular political fad of the second.”

The traditional novels “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Lord of the Flies” have been dumped from his daughter’s English class and changed by Ibram X. Kendi’s “Stamped,” which Eisenberg mentioned included “ahistorical, racially inflammatory views on this nation’s historical past with no reputable pedagogical goal.”

“[The] English Division informed dad and mom that in the event that they needed their kids to learn Shakespeare or Hemingway, they need to do it in their very own free time,” the criticism mentioned. 

The Brentwood Faculty responded to the lawsuit in a press release saying: “The allegations contained within the criticism are baseless, a piece of entire fiction and nothing greater than a determined try to embarrass the college.”

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