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You Have to Read This Letter
You Have to Read This Letter
A New York father pulls his daughter out of Brearley with a message to the whole school. Is the dam starting to break?
By Bari Weiss
04.16.21 — Education
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You Have to Read This Letter

I was planning to publish a roundup today of the many thoughtful responses to Paul Rossi’s essay. I’m going to save that post for Sunday, because I was just sent this letter that has my jaw on the floor. It was written by a Brearley parent named Andrew Gutmann.

If you don’t know about Brearley, it’s a private all-girls school on the Upper East Side of Ma…

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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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