PARENTS’ ‘WOKE’ TRAINING

Elite schools’ rules

New York City private schools are pushing woke training on parents in a Soviet-like effort to keep their kids on message.

At least five elite schools — where yearly tuitions hover around $60,000 — are forcing parents to undergo both mandatory and “optional” training in “anti-racism” and “diversity, equity and inclusion.” The theories demand a hyper-focus on race and privilege and have been accused by critics of demonizing white people.

Applications for The Brearley School, an all-girls school on the Upper East Side, say “parents are expected to attend two diversity, equity, inclusion and antiracism (DEIA) workshops per school year,” and write a 500-word essay demonstrating their fealty to those values.

If their daughters are accepted, parents are then expected to sign a pledge vowing to support the ideas.

“We expect teachers, staff members, students and parents to participate in anti-racist training and to pursue meaningful change through deliberate and measurable actions. These actions include identifying and eliminating policies, practices and beliefs that uphold racial inequality in our community,” it reads.

Andrew Gutmann, an ex-Brearley dad who yanked his daughter in protest and denounced the school in a public letter, said, “They want parents indoctrinated the same way they want their kids.”

New parents at Grace Church high school in Noho are required to have their children sign a pledge promising that they will fight against “racial propaganda” and “interrupt biases.”

“Grace makes it clear to prospective parents from the beginning that DEI and critical race theory and anti-racism is a moral imperative,” Paul Rossi a former teacher at the school, told The Post.

“Respect for differing viewpoints is a fundamental commitment of the school,” a Grace spokesman said.

At Spence, another Upper East Side all-girls school, parents are “invited” to take part in “Courageous Conversation equity workshop” put on by Pacific Educational Group, a private DEI consulting shop.

On Twitter, PEG declares “systemic racism” to be “deeply embedded in the fabric of this nation.” The group has blasted as “racist” the NFL, the Nobel Prizes, property taxes and the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“The opportunity to participate in the DEI program offered by PEG is strictly voluntary for parents. These programs do not involve students,” a rep for Spence said.

The Upper East Side’s Chapin School recently held a panel discussion for prospective parents to discuss the school’s “ongoing commitment to equity & inclusion.”

Keeping track

Though the Chapin gathering was declared optional, insiders said it was anything but. “They take attendance, they have name tags, there is someone from the admissions office to keep track of who goes and who doesn’t,” said one mom. “If you don’t go, your child is not going to go very far in the admission process.”

Another mom told The Post she was told to get with the program after her son commented that boys were physically more capable at sports than girls.

“I [was] talked to” she said, adding she was told her son “had to better understand the values of inclusion at the school and I had to familiarize myself with the values of inclusion at the school and be clear with my child as to what they were so he arrived at school prepared.”

In a “family learning session” with Horace Mann in The Bronx, Ronald Taylor gave a presentation lauding the work of Robin DiAngelo, whose book “White Fragility” asserts that all white people are racist.

“How can we take DiAngelo’s message and make it applicable to all communities in the [school] community?” asked Taylor, an ex-associate director of the Office for Identity, Culture, and Institutional Equity at Horace Mann.

“The workshop . . . was completely voluntary,” a school spokesman said.