Writer Douglas Murray said on Wednesday that a New York math teacher who calls out indoctrination of children highlights an “important” issue in American education.
“There’s something very important about this,” the author of “The Madness of Crowds” told Fox & Friends.
Murray responded to a maths teacher at an elite private school in New York, who published an essay criticizing the “indoctrination” that he said was taking place within its walls, arguing that “my school is asking me to accept ‘antiracism’ training and pedagogy that I believe is deeply detrimental to [students]. ”
The column by Paul Rossi of Grace Church School, entitled “I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated,” was posted Tuesday on a website run by former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss.
“I know that not only my current job but also my career as a teacher by risking my name on this, as most schools, both public and private, are now imprisoned for this backward ideology,” Rossi wrote. “But I can not keep quiet, as I can see how harmful it is on children.”
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Murray described the math teacher as a ‘whistleblower’ and ‘a decent guy’ who loved math and wanted to explain ‘the beauty’ of the subject to his students. However, the teacher was asked to raise issues about the education system when he was forced to take part in an ‘anti-racist labyrinth’, Murray noted.
‘He was, like so many teachers currently in America, led to this racist, so-called anti-racist labyrinth where the school authorities only had white faculty meetings in which people like him were indoctrinated into their new awake ideology. “
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Murray further said that Rossi’s criticism received a major setback from his colleagues and authorities.
“And this man, Mr. Rossi, said: ‘No, I have problems with this’ and because he said he had made a communist call through his own authorities. It’s worth thinking about, he said at one point after going through the teacher and so on, he says that the principal ordered all high school advisers to have a public reprimand of my behavior out loud for read to every student at school, ‘Murray said.
“And he describes walking through the schoolyards and hearing him being condemned from every classroom. That was something that happened earlier in communist Eastern Europe, in Pol Pot’s Cambodia. And it’s shameful that in the 21st century in America. “