


An elite Los Angeles school is being sued after its alleged attempt to "transform the school under a racially divisive, anti-Semitic ideology that seeks to indoctrinate children to reject Western values," according to the lawsuit.
The suit, brought last year by the father of former eighth-grader Jerome Eisenberg against Brentwood School, alleges a race-oriented curriculum change in the wake of George Floyd's death and subsequent riots that paints Jews as "oppressors" because of their "proximity to whiteness."
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Eisenberg said his daughter was kicked out of the school after he complained.
"The curriculum change shifted away from teaching students critical thinking skills — how to think — and started indoctrinating them into what to think, based on Brentwood's preferred political fad of the moment," the lawsuit states. Eisenberg said the changes happened after the school took $50,000 tuition payments.
Eisenberg's lawsuit explained his initial experience with Brentwood was positive, as it "delivered on its promise of a nondiscriminatory, traditional secular curriculum," but that "everything at Brentwood radically changed after the death of George Floyd."
The lawsuit, which also names school headmaster Michael Riera, claims Riera "started bombarding the community with near-daily missives that amounted to nothing more than politically laced diatribes about the fundamental evil of America and the 'work' that was required of white community members, including students, to fix societal ills that they were ostensibly responsible for due to the color of their skin."
Brentwood was able to move the case into private arbitration in November, and school chief communications officer Gail Friedman told the Washington Examiner that the school is not able to comment on pending litigation.
At the time the litigation was filed, Brentwood said, "The allegations contained in the complaint are baseless, a work of whole fiction, and nothing more than a desperate attempt to embarrass the school."
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While Eisenberg's counsel, David Pivtorak, said he could not comment on the progress of the case, he did tell the Washington Examiner, "I think this case exemplifies the idea that with extremism, whether of the far-left or far-right variety, the horseshoe always converges on antisemitism."
"We saw this with the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum that California was trying to mandate for every schoolchild that singled out Jews for their supposed 'privilege,' and we're seeing it with the proliferation of DEI departments throughout most of our institutions," he continued. "Make no mistake, most parents hate that their kids are being exposed to this but don't dare speak out for fear of being ostracized. I'm extremely proud of Mr. Eisenberg for bravely taking on this fight to protect his child. Hopefully, this will encourage others to take action and save their children from this radical ideology."