Raw Bigotry of National Association of Independent Schools

Earlier this month, at a National Association of Independent Schools (“NAIS”) conference, more than one speaker got up and gave a blatantly anti-Semitic diatribe. This revered national education association is the premiere accreditation agency of over 1,500 of the most elite private schools in the country, including Dalton on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The conference program was so biased that some Jewish participants tried to hide their Star of David pendants inside their shirts. The relentless anti-Semitism unleashed over the past year speaks volumes about a larger infection that has reached the top echelons of America’s most vaunted school accrediting organization. This kind of raw bigotry by an education organization against a religious minority tells us something unnerving about the state of our schools right now.