Dear Community & Neighbors:

I have been flooded with requests to share the video of the mini town hall meeting that I was invited to speak at in Murray regarding Critical Race Theory.

It was a pretty powerful and intimate meeting. I was emotionally and intellectually drained for three days after I went home to my family. I knew this was going to be different when I looked into the eyes of many of my white neighbors and fellow parents and saw fear and sadness. It became my sole goal at that moment to assist with eliminating that fear, as well as to provide some level of hope.

My COO Brook Wardle has the tape, and over the next few weeks we will be working on editing the tape and releasing many clips of the meeting.

Releasing the whole tape in its entirety is not a option due to the extreme level of intimacy and subject matters that were based on my family history and legacy. I also went after BLM hard. Real hard. Perhaps in hindsight? Too hard. 😉

That’s a legacy that mainstream media and progressive trolls on Facebook/Twitter will never have the opportunity to mock or re-edit to suit their nefarious purposes.

In the meantime, I suggest that you hear Kate Daley’s national radio interview she did with me last month on the same subject. (Someone told me a few weeks ago that it got over 10 million views.). I don’t have the link right now, but it’s easy to find via Google.

One national radio interview….one national tv interview….and one town hall meeting. I put myself out there and laid it all on the line. As such, I really don’t feel the need to make the public appearance rounds of your local school boards, the State Board, the Tribune, and especially, our newly woke (and filled with “white guilt”) Republican lawmakers and Governor regarding this subject matter.

It would destroy my family. It would emotionally destroy me. That’s not gonna happen.

I brought the proverbial horse to the water at great risk, but I’m afraid that it is now your turn to drink it and then rise up against this garbage with every ounce of your being.

This WILL destroy your community.

This will break apart many families.

This will emotionally harm your vulnerable children on more levels than I can write at the moment.

Being the expert of your child takes a lot of “stones”, and can be frightening….but please believe me when I tell you that it is worth the journey.

God bless all of you parental rock stars.

“Parents are, and must always be, the resident experts of their own children.”

Best regards;

Gary Thompson, Psy.D.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/utahnsagainstcommoncore/permalink/3549442091948509/

Dr. Thompson explains why he is limiting his exposure to the media in this Facebook post.

Tomorrow will be the last time I speak publicly on race issues and the Critical Race Agenda during a invite only community townhall meeting in Murray for about 40-50 local Murray parents.

One hour long. I speak for 30 minutes, then I open it up to the room for questions.

No Press. No cameras. The only camera that will be in the room will be mine.

I will send out various clips of interest to community leaders in education…..then I’m done.

I will leave my community with a national radio interview, a national tv interview, clips from this parent townhall. Other than that? Nothing.

We are in the midst of a national and local race civil war. I promised a year ago on this site that my family will not participate, and we will watch from the sidelines as our community and country rip each other apart emotionally, and otherwise.

Could I do more? Sure.

Should I do more? Nope. I’m not sacrificing my family and our mental health to wage a war against politicians , the national/local media, and the Utah State Board of Education.

My kids and family are healthy and safe and removed from this toxic garbage.

I wish you all luck with yours, and I believe I have provided enough information (at great risk I may add) to the community to the extent where I can sleep very well at night.

“Parents are, and must always be, the resident experts of their OWN children.”

Best regards;

Gary

Gary was on the Kate Daly Show. This is a MUST LISTEN show!

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/agNNADzzJfCYLHLv7

I will share the video clips of Dr. Thompson at the townhall as they appear on the web.

Jenny Marie Hatch

PS I have been stunned by the brave fathers who are standing up right now. Bari Weiss profiled the dad from New York who wrote a letter that is ripping around the internet right now.

It is embedded below.

April 13, 2021 

Dear Fellow Brearley Parents, 

Our family recently made the decision not to reenroll our daughter at Brearley for the 2021-22 school year. She has been at Brearley for seven years, beginning in kindergarten. In short, we no longer believe that Brearley’s administration and Board of Trustees have any of our children’s best interests at heart. Moreover, we no longer have confidence that our daughter will receive the quality of education necessary to further her development into a critically thinking, responsible, enlightened, and civic minded adult. I write to you, as a fellow parent, to share our reasons for leaving the Brearley community but also to urge you to act before the damage to the school, to its community, and to your own child’s education is irreparable. 

It cannot be stated strongly enough that Brearley’s obsession with race must stop. It should be abundantly clear to any thinking parent that Brearley has completely lost its way. The administration and the Board of Trustees have displayed a cowardly and appalling lack of leadership by appeasing an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob, and then allowing the school to be captured by that same mob. What follows are my own personal views on Brearley’s antiracism initiatives, but these are just a handful of the criticisms that I know other parents have expressed. 

I object to the view that I should be judged by the color of my skin. I cannot tolerate a school that not only judges my daughter by the color of her skin, but encourages and instructs her to prejudge others by theirs. By viewing every element of education, every aspect of history, and every facet of society through the lens of skin color and race, we are desecrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and utterly violating the movement for which such civil rights leaders believed, fought, and died. 

I object to the charge of systemic racism in this country, and at our school. Systemic racism, properly understood, is segregated schools and separate lunch counters. It is the interning of Japanese and the exterminating of Jews. Systemic racism is unequivocally not a small number of isolated incidences over a period of decades. Ask any girl, of any race, if they have ever experienced insults from friends, have ever felt slighted by teachers or have ever suffered the occasional injustice from a school at which they have spent up to 13 years of their life, and you are bound to hear grievances, some petty, some not. We have not had systemic racism against Blacks in this country since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, a period of more than 50 years. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of our country’s history and adds no understanding to any of today’s societal issues. If anything, longstanding and widespread policies such as affirmative action, point in precisely the opposite direction. 

I object to a definition of systemic racism, apparently supported by Brearley, that any educational, professional, or societal outcome where Blacks are underrepresented is prima facie evidence of the aforementioned systemic racism, or of white supremacy and oppression. Facile and unsupported beliefs such as these are the polar opposite to the intellectual and scientific truth for which Brearley claims to stand. Furthermore, I call bullshit on Brearley’s oft-stated assertion that the school welcomes and encourages the truly difficult and uncomfortable conversations regarding race and the roots of racial discrepancies. 

I object to the idea that Blacks are unable to succeed in this country without aid from government or from whites. Brearley, by adopting critical race theory, is advocating the abhorrent viewpoint that Blacks should forever be regarded as helpless victims, and are incapable of success regardless of their skills, talents, or hard work. What Brearley is teaching our children is precisely the true and correct definition of racism. 

I object to mandatory anti-racism training for parents, especially when presented by the rent-seeking charlatans of Pollyanna. These sessions, in both their content and delivery, are so sophomoric and simplistic, so unsophisticated and inane, that I would be embarrassed if they were taught to Brearley kindergarteners. They are an insult to parents and unbecoming of any educational institution, let alone one of Brearley’s caliber. 

I object to Brearley’s vacuous, inappropriate, and fanatical use of words such as “equity,” “diversity” and “inclusiveness.” If Brearley’s administration was truly concerned about so-called “equity,” it would be discussing the cessation of admissions preferences for legacies, siblings, and those families with especially deep pockets. If the administration was genuinely serious about “diversity,” it would not insist on the indoctrination of its students, and their families, to a single mindset, most reminiscent of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Instead, the school would foster an environment of intellectual openness and freedom of thought. And if Brearley really cared about “inclusiveness,” the school would return to the concepts encapsulated in the motto “One Brearley,” instead of teaching the extraordinarily divisive idea that there are only, and always, two groups in this country: victims and oppressors. 

l object to Brearley’s advocacy for groups and movements such as Black Lives Matter, a Marxist, anti family, heterophobic, anti-Asian and anti-Semitic organization that neither speaks for the majority of the Black community in this country, nor in any way, shape or form, represents their best interests. 

I object to, as we have been told time and time again over the past year, that the school’s first priority is the safety of our children. For goodness sake, Brearley is a school, not a hospital! The number one priority of a school has always been, and always will be, education. Brearley’s misguided priorities exemplify both the safety culture and “cover-your-ass” culture that together have proved so toxic to our society and have so damaged the mental health and resiliency of two generations of children, and counting. 

I object to the gutting of the history, civics, and classical literature curriculums. I object to the censorship of books that have been taught for generations because they contain dated language potentially offensive to the thin-skinned and hypersensitive (something that has already happened in my daughter’s 4th grade class). I object to the lowering of standards for the admission of students and for the hiring of teachers. I object to the erosion of rigor in classwork and the escalation of grade inflation. Any parent with eyes open can foresee these inevitabilities should antiracism initiatives be allowed to persist. 

We have today in our country, from both political parties, and at all levels of government, the most unwise and unvirtuous leaders in our nation’s history. Schools like Brearley are supposed to be the training grounds for those leaders. Our nation will not survive a generation of leadership even more poorly educated than we have now, nor will we survive a generation of students taught to hate its own country and despise its history. 

Lastly, I object, with as strong a sentiment as possible, that Brearley has begun to teach what to think, instead of how to think. I object that the school is now fostering an environment where our daughters, and our daughters’ teachers, are afraid to speak their minds in class for fear of “consequences.” I object that Brearley is trying to usurp the role of parents in teaching morality, and bullying parents to adopt that false morality at home. I object that Brearley is fostering a divisive community where families of different races, which until recently were part of the same community, are now segregated into two. These are the reasons why we can no longer send our daughter to Brearley. 

Over the past several months, I have personally spoken to many Brearley parents as well as parents of children at peer institutions. It is abundantly clear that the majority of parents believe that Brearley’s antiracism policies are misguided, divisive, counterproductive and cancerous. Many believe, as I do, that these policies will ultimately destroy what was until recently, a wonderful educational institution. But as I am sure will come as no surprise to you, given the insidious cancel culture that has of late permeated our society, most parents are too fearful to speak up. 

But speak up you must. There is strength in numbers and I assure you, the numbers are there. Contact the administration and the Board of Trustees and demand an end to the destructive and anti-intellectual claptrap known as antiracism. And if changes are not forthcoming then demand new leadership. For the sake of our community, our city, our country and most of all, our children, silence is no longer an option. 

Respectfully, 

Andrew Gutmann

More on Andrews letter at The Daily Mail HERE.