If you're black, welcome back; if you're white, sit tight

Greenwich Country Day Students preparing to “nurture an inclusive community” by “engaging in dialogue” amongst themselves while waiting in the Whites Only Exclusion Room. CDC tuition is between $37,150 and $48,500. Its (white) Headmaster’s salary is $687,000.

Greenwich Country Day School is hosting a “Welcome Back cider and doughnut” party this fall, and everyone: blacks, chicanos, Latinxes, and Martian transvestites is invited. Except, of course, white students and their parents. The new Greenwich Republican party leadership is appalled, and GCD’s head person (he/she/they) doesn’t understand why.

“I think there are ways we could change the language a little bit in the letter,” Rohdie said.

How would he propose to make it clear to his white students and their parents that they are very much not invited, but really they are, by only changing the language a little bit”? And how, exactly, does separating students by race, excluding some, including others, teach racial harmony and friendship between peers? “Divide and conquer” isn’t exactly an educational policy that’s likely to bind a school community together, but then, that’s not what the policy is intended to achieve. Quite the contrary.

But wait, we don’t really mean to separate whites from the rest of the school:

“If any family wanted to attend they would be welcome to attend. [Hahahahaha! — ED] We celebrate community throughout the year, and we provide opportunity for affinity groups and families of students with common interests and backgrounds and experiences.”

Rhodie also said that “almost the exact same letter has gone out” in the three years since the school started the Cider and Donuts event. [When the BLM/White Guilt syndrome swamped the white, woke, world of academia.]

“The annual Cider and Donuts event is open to GCDS families who identify as Black, Asian, Latinx, multi-racial, Indigenous, Middle Eastern, and/or people of color,” read the letter, which was obtained by National Review.

The letter was addressed to “GCDS families” and was signed by the director and associate director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Above the description of the event, scheduled for October 8, it mentioned the importance of “building an inclusive, just and equitable community reflecting the multitude of human identities and perspectives in our world.”