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• THE HORROR STORI BEHD SCHOOL THAT DISSED ‘1619 PROJECT’ JOURNALIST‘REPULSIVE’SOME BLACK ALUMNI TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT THEY ENDURED RACIST BEHAVR AT MIDDLEX SCHOOL.NOAH KIRSCHWEALTH AND POWER REPORTERUPDATED OCT. 30, 2021 2:33AM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 29, 2021 10:48PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS MIDDLEX SCHOOLLYNNEAH CARDE ARRIVED AT MIDDLEX SCHOOL 2016, NERVO AND EXPECTG A CULTURE SHOCK. SHE HAD ATTEND A PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL SOUTH CHIGO BEFORE LANDG A FULL RI TO THE PRTIG BOARDG AMY 40 MUT NORTHWT OF BOSTON. “I MAY GO OM SEEG A TON OF PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE ME TO SEEG A UPLE,” CARDE, WHO IS BLACK, RELLED THKG.THGS WENT EVEN WORSE THAN EXPECTED. HER FIRST DAY ON MP, SHE SAID, A GROUP OF PASSG STUNTS SNEERED AT SOME OF THE NEW ARRIVALS. “THEY BASILLY TOLD THAT WE WERE N-WORDS AND THAT WE WERE ONLY THERE FOR DIVERSY,” SAID CARDE, WHO NOTED THAT THE MENTS WERE MORE DIRECTLY TARGETED AT SOME OF HER NEARBY PEERS. “BEG LLED THE N-WORD WH A HARD ‘R’ WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MEMORI OF MY TIME AT MIDDLEX.”THERE WAS NO DITN THE OFFENDG GIRLS WERE SERLY PUNISHED, ACRDG TO CARDE AND ANOTHER STUNT ENROLLED AT THE TIME—THOUGH THE OTHER STUNT ULD NOT REMEMBER IF THE SLUR HAD BEEN ED.INSTEAD, THE FORMER HEAD OF SCHOOL HELD A MEETG AND WARNED THAT DISRPECTFUL BEHAVR WOULD NOT BE TOLERATED. SHE FORBA ALL STUNTS, CLUDG THOSE WHO WERE BLACK, OM G THE N-WORD, THE TWO ALUMNI SAID. TO CARDE, THE CREE WAS AN UNJT ATTEMPT TO REGULATE BLACK STUNTS’ E OF “THEIR CULTURE A PRIVATE SETTG.” IT WAS ALSO A DOUBLE STANDARD: “IT'S OKAY WHEN THE WHE STUNTS PLAY MIC WH THE N-WORD OR YOU HEAR THEM SG THE LOCKER ROOM, AND NO ONE LLS THEM OUT.”CARDE’S EXPERIENCE AT MIDDLEX WAS BACK ON HER MD LAST WEEK, AS THE SCHOOL FOUND SELF THE NEWS OVER A SELF-FLICTED NTROVERSY. THE NEW YORK TIM WRER NIKOLE HANNAH-JON HAD BEEN VED TO SPEAK ON MP DURG BLACK HISTORY MONTH ABOUT THE 1619 PROJECT, HER PULZER PRIZE-WNG WORK ON THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY AMERI. THEN THE HEAD OF SCHOOL BLOCKED HER ATTENDANCE, ALLEGEDLY TERMG THAT WOULD CREATE TOO MUCH “NOISE.”JT DAYS EARLIER, AN OPEN LETTER, MIDDLEX HAD PUBLICLY TOUTED S MMENT TO THE “OPEN EXCHANGE OF VIEWPOTS,” PARTICULARLY ON MATTERS OF DIVERSY AND CLN. THE LETTER CLARED THAT “RPECTFUL BATE AND DISAGREEMENT ARE NOT ONLY HEALTHY, BUT THE VERY GROUND UPON WHICH A LEARNG MUNY THRIV.”SCE HANNAH-JON’ BAN, FUR STUNTS HAVE STAGED A WALKOUT, WHILE ALMOST 100 FACULTY MEMBERS REPORTEDLY WROTE A STATEMENT OF OBJECTN AS WELL.TO SOME ALUMNI OF LOR, CARDE CLUD, THE FLARE-UP DID NOT E AS A SURPRISE.ALEXANDRA JON, A BLACK ALUMNA WHO GRADUATED 2019, FELT THE ADMISTRATN ENABLED RACIST NDUCT. “THERE’S A CULTURE OF SUPPRSN, AND THERE’S A REAL CULTURE OF ENABLG WHE SUPREMACIST BEHAVRS,” SHE SAID.ANOTHER FORMER STUNT, WHO GRADUATED THE PAST , ECHOED THAT SENTIMENT. “HONTLY, MIDDLEX WAS ONE OF THE HARST EXPERIENC OF MY LIFE. IT WAS JT A NSTANT BATTLEGROUND, PECIALLY FOR ANYONE WHO DIDN’T F THE MOLD OF BEG A WHE PRIVILEGED KID.”MIDDLEX DID NOT RPOND TO REPEATED REQUTS FOR MENT FOR THIS STORY.LAST WEEK, HEAD OF SCHOOL DAVID BEARE AND STEPHEN LARI, PRINT OF THE BOARD OF TSTE, ISSUED A JOT APOLOGY FOR WHAT THEY LLED A “PROFOUNDLY WRONG” CISN TO DISVE HANNAH-JON.EVINTLY, THOSE WORDS WEREN’T ENOUGH. ON THURSDAY, BEARE ANNOUNCED THAT HE WOULD BE TAKG A LEAVE OF ABSENCE. MIDDLEX’S MP SPANS 350 ACR. SOME ALUMNI SAY S BULIC FA HID A DISTURBG CULTURE.DAROT/WIKIPEDIA COMMONS TUCKED TO THE WOODS OF CONRD, MASSACHETTS, MIDDLEX’S BULIC MP SPANS 350 ACR. THE SCHOOL, FOUND 1901, BOASTS OF A MISSN TO “FD THE PROMISE THAT LI HIDN” EVERY PUPIL. BUT LIKE ANY NORTHEASTERN BOARDG AMY, THERE IS A SENDARY AIM: SHUTTLG AS MANY STUNTS AS POSSIBLE TO THE IVY LEAGUE.IN THE LATE 1990S, THE SCHOOL’S LLEGE UNSELG DIRECTOR WAS REPORTEDLY BTED FOR OVERSTATG THE NUMBER OF STUNTS WHO ENROLLED AT ELE UNIVERSI; HE DIED BY SUICI SOON AFTER. TODAY, THE 10 MOST POPULAR STATNS FOR MIDDLEX GRADUAT CLU HARVARD, DARTMOUTH, GEETOWN, AND THE UNIVERSY OF CHIGO.MIDDLEX, TURN, HAS PRODUCED SOME BIG-NAME ALUMNI, OM FORMER MASSACHETTS GOV. BILL WELD, TO THE ACTOR STEVE CARELL, TO THE INSTAGRAM FOUNR KEV SYSTROM.AND WHILE THE SCHOOL IS SMALLER THAN MANY OF S PEERS—WH JT 406 STUNTS TODAY, CLUDG SEVERAL DOZEN STUNTS OF LOR—S $240 LN ENDOWMENT ULD RIVAL MOST LLEG. SO ULD TUN, WHICH NS CLOSE TO $70,000 PER YEAR FOR THE MAJORY OF ATTEN THAT BOARD.ON MP, THE DISCIPLE STILL NS OLD SCHOOL. STUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO HOLD THEIR PEERS ACUNTABLE, AND HONOR VLATNS ARE PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED.“IT WAS JT A VERY UNFIVG ENVIRONMENT, VERY MUCH LIKE P, P, P,” ONE ALUMNA SAID. ANOTHER GRADUATE, OM THE CLASS OF 2014, RELLED A NIGHT WHEN STUNTS WERE YANKED OM THEIR BEDS FOR BREATHALYZER TTS, OVER SPICNS OF UNRAGE DRKG. AT LEAST A DOZEN MEMBERS OF THE CLASS WERE ULTIMATELY BARRED OM WALKG AT GRADUATN THAT YEAR DUE TO VAR DISCIPLARY VLATNS, THE PERSON SAID. (TWO OTHER STUNTS NFIRMED THAT TO THE DAILY BEAST AS WELL.)LS REGULATED, SOME FORMER STUNTS SAY, WAS A CULTURE THAT ULD LEAN SULAR, AND AT TIM SEXIST, HOMOPHOBIC, AND RACIST.WHILE THE SCHOOL HOSTED AN ANNUAL DIVERSY SYMPOSIUM—THE SAME EVENT THAT HANNAH-JON WOULD HAVE ATTEND THIS WTER—“IT FELY WASN’T TAKEN SERLY BY THE WHE STUNTS,” A WHE MIDDLEX GRADUATE SAID.A QUEER ALUMNA SAID SHE WAS TOO AAID TO E OUT AFTER WNSG RAMPANT BULLYG THAT FORCED A GAY CLASSMATE TO MOVE OFF MP ABOUT A AGO. NOHELS, SHE SAID, HER CLASSMAT SPECTED THAT SHE WASN’T HETEROSEXUAL, AND THE TNTG MENCED.“PEOPLE WOULD SCREAM ‘LBIAN’ AND JT MAKE FUN OF ME,” SHE SAID. “IT [WAS] JT SUCH AN UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT.”THE CLASSROOM WAS SOMETIM JT AS BAD. WHILE MULTIPLE ALUMNI EXPRSED WARMTH FOR THEIR TEACHERS, A NUMBER OF BLACK ALUMS SAID THAT THEIR WHE PEERS WOULD STOKE UNMORATED BAT THAT THEY FOUND OFFENSIVE, CLUDG WHETHER SLAVERY HAD BEEN A STAT’ RIGHTS ISSUE OR AN ENGE FOR ENOMIC GROWTH.“EVEN MY REGULAR HISTORY CLASS MANY STUNTS WOULD TRY TO JTIFY AS A MEANS OF LIKE, ‘OH, THAT’S WHY AMERI IS SO GREAT NOW,’” SAID CARDE.A LATA FORMER STUNT SAID THAT, DURG HER HMAN YEAR, AN STCTOR TEACHG A LSON ON LONIZATN LAT AMERI CID TO ASSIGN EACH MEMBER OF THE CLASS A HISTORIL ROLE BASED ON THEIR RACE.THE TEACHER LABELED ONE WHE STUNT A LONIZER—AND SAID THE LATA STUNT WOULD BE “THE DIGENO PERSON THAT THE LONIZER WOULD RAPE,” SHE RELLED. “AND I WAS JT LIKE, ‘WHAT THE FUCK?’” CLARENCE PATTON ENROLLED AS A HMAN AT MIDDLEX 1982, WHEN, HE SAID, THERE WERE NO BLACK FACULTY OR STAFF, AND HE WAS ONE OF MAYBE 10 BLACK STUNTS OUT OF ROUGHLY 300 TOTAL ENROLLE.AS HIS MOTHER DROPPED HIM OFF, HE SAID, SHE LEFT HIM WH A CLEAR SET OF STCTNS: “YOU’RE A TOKEN, AND YOUR JOB FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS IS TO BE THE BT TOKEN YOU N BE AND LEARN HOW THE FOLKS N THE WORLD. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED AND LEAVE THE RT.”PATTON SAYS HE TOOK HER WORDS SERLY, AND HE ENJOYED HIS TIME AT THE SCHOOL. “I LOVE MIDDLEX,” HE SAID. “I’VE GOT PRIMARILY FOND MEMORI OF .”PATTON DIDN’T PERSONALLY EXPERIENCE SER MISTREATMENT BASED ON HIS RACE, AK TO THE ALLEGATNS MA BY MORE RECENT ATTEN. BUT THAT DON’T SURPRISE HIM.“WHEN THERE ARE FEW OF ,” HE SAID, REFERRG TO BLACK STUNTS, “’S KD OF CUTE AND TOLERABLE. BUT YOU GET TO A CERTA CRIL MASS… THAT'S GOG TO ACTUALLY PUT PRSURE ON THE MUNY TO CHANGE.”THE RULTG TENSN HAS SEEMGLY REACHED A BOILG POT RECENT YEARS. AN INSTAGRAM ACUNT, BLACK AT MIDDLEX, WAS LNCHED 2020 AND HAS SCE DRAWN MORE THAN 100 ANONYMO GRIEVANC, LLS TO ACTN, AND STORI.ONE BLACK ALUMNA, WHO GRADUATED THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT SHE HAD SOUGHT TO GIVE A SPEECH ON MP ABOUT HER MIDDLEX EXPERIENCE, LIVERED “AS BLUNT AND STRAIGHTFORWARD AND HONT AS POSSIBLE.” BUT FACULTY MEMBERS EDED HER WORDS TO AVOID ALIENATG THOSE OUTSI THE BLACK MUNY.“THE BLACK VOIC ON MP WERE PRETTY MUCH SUPPRSED. AND ANY TIME THAT WE WERE GIVEN A PLATFORM TO SPEAK, WE HAD TO MAKE MORE, LIKE, PALATABLE FOR THE RT OF THE SCHOOL,” SHE SAID.ACRDG TO MULTIPLE ALUMNI WHO GRADUATED THE LAST FIVE YEARS, THE HOCKEY TEAM HAD A DISTCT REPUTATN FOR RACIST NDUCT. SOME MEMBERS WERE ALLEGEDLY KNOWN TO E THE N-WORD AND WOULD REFER TO BLACK GORILLA TAPE G THE SLUR.TWO FORMER STUNTS SAID THE TEAM NICKNAMED ONE OF S WEEKLY PRACTIC “MONKEY MONDAYS” TO MOCK A BLACK ATHLETE ON THE TEAM. (THE DAILY BEAST WAS NOT ABLE TO REACH THE ATHLETE DIRECTLY.)REURSE APPEARED LIMED. “THE HOCKEY ACH WOULD BASILLY SAY ‘DON’T DO THAT ANYMORE,’ AND THAT WOULD BE KD OF THE END OF THE NVERSATN,” A RECENT GRADUATE SAID.LACK OF FACULTY SUPPORT WAS A TREND, STUNTS ALLEGED. CARDE RELLED AN CINT WHEN A STAFF MEMBER ACSTED HER FOR PLAYG RAP MIC—A POPULAR GENRE AMONG WHE STUNTS, AS WELL.“SHE THEN BEGS YELLG AND TELLG ME THAT, ‘WE DON’T LISTEN TO THIS KD OF MIC,’” CARDE SAID. IN THE PROCS, “SHE LLED ME EVERY OTHER BLACK GIRL’S NAME BUT MY OWN.”CARDE SAID THE ADMISTRATN ASKED HER TO APOLOGIZE TO THE TEACHER, BUT SHE REFED.JON, OM THE CLASS OF 2019, REUNTED A SIAR EVENT WHICH, SHE SAID, SHE WAS HLED TO A MEETG WH THE AN FOR LLG NEW HAMPSHIRE “A TRASH STATE BEE HAD CONFERATE FLAGS,” EVEN THOUGH “ WAS NEVER A PART OF THE CONFERACY.”YET, JON ALLEGED, “ WAS WILY KNOWN THAT A CERTA STUNT WAS G RACIAL SLURS AGAST HER ROOMMATE, AND THAT DIDN’T WARRANT A AN’S MEETG.”“I THK THAT WAS REALLY THE WORST PART,” SHE ADD. “IT’S ONE THG FOR AN DIVIDUAL TO BE RACIST TO YOU. I THK ’S ANOTHER THG FOR AN STUTN TO ENABLE THAT RACISM AND GIVE POWER ENOUGH TO SUPPRS YOU.” ALEXANDRA JON SAID THERE WAS A “CULTURE OF SUPPRSN” WHEN SHE WAS AT MIDDLEX.COURTY ALEXANDRA JON CARDE SAYS THAT EACH YEAR, THE SCHOOL ASKED TO TERVIEW OR PHOTOGRAPH HER FOR PROMOTNAL MATERIALS, AN EFFORT TO APPEAR DIVERSE AND WELG.“IT’S NOT A GENUE REPRENTATN OF WHAT THIS POPULATN LOOKS LIKE. IT ALSO PROVIS A FALSE SENSE OF SECURY FOR THE PEOPLE OF LOR. THEY THK THAT THEY HAVE SUPPORT, BUT THEY GET THERE, AND THERE’S NOTHG,” SHE SAID.“AT THIS POT,” SHE SAID OF THE SCHOOL’S TRACK RERD, “’S REPULSIVE AND ’S REPETIVE.”NOW, ACRDG TO FORMER STUNTS, MIDDLEX IS NONTG TW CRIS: A SHORT-TERM BACLE ENTIRELY OF S OWN MAKG, AND ANOTHER, LONG-SIMMERG ONE. NOAH KIRSCH
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THE HORROR STORI BEHD SCHOOL THAT DISSED ‘1619 PROJECT’ JOURNALIST‘REPULSIVE’SOME BLACK ALUMNI TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT THEY ENDURED RACIST BEHAVR AT MIDDLEX SCHOOL.NOAH KIRSCHWEALTH AND POWER REPORTERUPDATED OCT. 30, 2021 2:33AM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 29, 2021 10:48PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS MIDDLEX SCHOOLLYNNEAH CARDE ARRIVED AT MIDDLEX SCHOOL 2016, NERVO AND EXPECTG A CULTURE SHOCK. SHE HAD ATTEND A PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL SOUTH CHIGO BEFORE LANDG A FULL RI TO THE PRTIG BOARDG AMY 40 MUT NORTHWT OF BOSTON. “I MAY GO OM SEEG A TON OF PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE ME TO SEEG A UPLE,” CARDE, WHO IS BLACK, RELLED THKG.THGS WENT EVEN WORSE THAN EXPECTED. HER FIRST DAY ON MP, SHE SAID, A GROUP OF PASSG STUNTS SNEERED AT SOME OF THE NEW ARRIVALS. “THEY BASILLY TOLD THAT WE WERE N-WORDS AND THAT WE WERE ONLY THERE FOR DIVERSY,” SAID CARDE, WHO NOTED THAT THE MENTS WERE MORE DIRECTLY TARGETED AT SOME OF HER NEARBY PEERS. “BEG LLED THE N-WORD WH A HARD ‘R’ WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MEMORI OF MY TIME AT MIDDLEX.”THERE WAS NO DITN THE OFFENDG GIRLS WERE SERLY PUNISHED, ACRDG TO CARDE AND ANOTHER STUNT ENROLLED AT THE TIME—THOUGH THE OTHER STUNT ULD NOT REMEMBER IF THE SLUR HAD BEEN ED.INSTEAD, THE FORMER HEAD OF SCHOOL HELD A MEETG AND WARNED THAT DISRPECTFUL BEHAVR WOULD NOT BE TOLERATED. SHE FORBA ALL STUNTS, CLUDG THOSE WHO WERE BLACK, OM G THE N-WORD, THE TWO ALUMNI SAID. TO CARDE, THE CREE WAS AN UNJT ATTEMPT TO REGULATE BLACK STUNTS’ E OF “THEIR CULTURE A PRIVATE SETTG.” IT WAS ALSO A DOUBLE STANDARD: “IT'S OKAY WHEN THE WHE STUNTS PLAY MIC WH THE N-WORD OR YOU HEAR THEM SG THE LOCKER ROOM, AND NO ONE LLS THEM OUT.”CARDE’S EXPERIENCE AT MIDDLEX WAS BACK ON HER MD LAST WEEK, AS THE SCHOOL FOUND SELF THE NEWS OVER A SELF-FLICTED NTROVERSY. THE NEW YORK TIM WRER NIKOLE HANNAH-JON HAD BEEN VED TO SPEAK ON MP DURG BLACK HISTORY MONTH ABOUT THE 1619 PROJECT, HER PULZER PRIZE-WNG WORK ON THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY AMERI. THEN THE HEAD OF SCHOOL BLOCKED HER ATTENDANCE, ALLEGEDLY TERMG THAT WOULD CREATE TOO MUCH “NOISE.”JT DAYS EARLIER, AN OPEN LETTER, MIDDLEX HAD PUBLICLY TOUTED S MMENT TO THE “OPEN EXCHANGE OF VIEWPOTS,” PARTICULARLY ON MATTERS OF DIVERSY AND CLN. THE LETTER CLARED THAT “RPECTFUL BATE AND DISAGREEMENT ARE NOT ONLY HEALTHY, BUT THE VERY GROUND UPON WHICH A LEARNG MUNY THRIV.”SCE HANNAH-JON’ BAN, FUR STUNTS HAVE STAGED A WALKOUT, WHILE ALMOST 100 FACULTY MEMBERS REPORTEDLY WROTE A STATEMENT OF OBJECTN AS WELL.TO SOME ALUMNI OF LOR, CARDE CLUD, THE FLARE-UP DID NOT E AS A SURPRISE.ALEXANDRA JON, A BLACK ALUMNA WHO GRADUATED 2019, FELT THE ADMISTRATN ENABLED RACIST NDUCT. “THERE’S A CULTURE OF SUPPRSN, AND THERE’S A REAL CULTURE OF ENABLG WHE SUPREMACIST BEHAVRS,” SHE SAID.ANOTHER FORMER STUNT, WHO GRADUATED THE PAST , ECHOED THAT SENTIMENT. “HONTLY, MIDDLEX WAS ONE OF THE HARST EXPERIENC OF MY LIFE. IT WAS JT A NSTANT BATTLEGROUND, PECIALLY FOR ANYONE WHO DIDN’T F THE MOLD OF BEG A WHE PRIVILEGED KID.”MIDDLEX DID NOT RPOND TO REPEATED REQUTS FOR MENT FOR THIS STORY.LAST WEEK, HEAD OF SCHOOL DAVID BEARE AND STEPHEN LARI, PRINT OF THE BOARD OF TSTE, ISSUED A JOT APOLOGY FOR WHAT THEY LLED A “PROFOUNDLY WRONG” CISN TO DISVE HANNAH-JON.EVINTLY, THOSE WORDS WEREN’T ENOUGH. ON THURSDAY, BEARE ANNOUNCED THAT HE WOULD BE TAKG A LEAVE OF ABSENCE. MIDDLEX’S MP SPANS 350 ACR. SOME ALUMNI SAY S BULIC FA HID A DISTURBG CULTURE.DAROT/WIKIPEDIA COMMONS TUCKED TO THE WOODS OF CONRD, MASSACHETTS, MIDDLEX’S BULIC MP SPANS 350 ACR. THE SCHOOL, FOUND 1901, BOASTS OF A MISSN TO “FD THE PROMISE THAT LI HIDN” EVERY PUPIL. BUT LIKE ANY NORTHEASTERN BOARDG AMY, THERE IS A SENDARY AIM: SHUTTLG AS MANY STUNTS AS POSSIBLE TO THE IVY LEAGUE.IN THE LATE 1990S, THE SCHOOL’S LLEGE UNSELG DIRECTOR WAS REPORTEDLY BTED FOR OVERSTATG THE NUMBER OF STUNTS WHO ENROLLED AT ELE UNIVERSI; HE DIED BY SUICI SOON AFTER. TODAY, THE 10 MOST POPULAR STATNS FOR MIDDLEX GRADUAT CLU HARVARD, DARTMOUTH, GEETOWN, AND THE UNIVERSY OF CHIGO.MIDDLEX, TURN, HAS PRODUCED SOME BIG-NAME ALUMNI, OM FORMER MASSACHETTS GOV. BILL WELD, TO THE ACTOR STEVE CARELL, TO THE INSTAGRAM FOUNR KEV SYSTROM.AND WHILE THE SCHOOL IS SMALLER THAN MANY OF S PEERS—WH JT 406 STUNTS TODAY, CLUDG SEVERAL DOZEN STUNTS OF LOR—S $240 LN ENDOWMENT ULD RIVAL MOST LLEG. SO ULD TUN, WHICH NS CLOSE TO $70,000 PER YEAR FOR THE MAJORY OF ATTEN THAT BOARD.ON MP, THE DISCIPLE STILL NS OLD SCHOOL. STUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO HOLD THEIR PEERS ACUNTABLE, AND HONOR VLATNS ARE PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED.“IT WAS JT A VERY UNFIVG ENVIRONMENT, VERY MUCH LIKE P, P, P,” ONE ALUMNA SAID. ANOTHER GRADUATE, OM THE CLASS OF 2014, RELLED A NIGHT WHEN STUNTS WERE YANKED OM THEIR BEDS FOR BREATHALYZER TTS, OVER SPICNS OF UNRAGE DRKG. AT LEAST A DOZEN MEMBERS OF THE CLASS WERE ULTIMATELY BARRED OM WALKG AT GRADUATN THAT YEAR DUE TO VAR DISCIPLARY VLATNS, THE PERSON SAID. (TWO OTHER STUNTS NFIRMED THAT TO THE DAILY BEAST AS WELL.)LS REGULATED, SOME FORMER STUNTS SAY, WAS A CULTURE THAT ULD LEAN SULAR, AND AT TIM SEXIST, HOMOPHOBIC, AND RACIST.WHILE THE SCHOOL HOSTED AN ANNUAL DIVERSY SYMPOSIUM—THE SAME EVENT THAT HANNAH-JON WOULD HAVE ATTEND THIS WTER—“IT FELY WASN’T TAKEN SERLY BY THE WHE STUNTS,” A WHE MIDDLEX GRADUATE SAID.A QUEER ALUMNA SAID SHE WAS TOO AAID TO E OUT AFTER WNSG RAMPANT BULLYG THAT FORCED A GAY CLASSMATE TO MOVE OFF MP ABOUT A AGO. NOHELS, SHE SAID, HER CLASSMAT SPECTED THAT SHE WASN’T HETEROSEXUAL, AND THE TNTG MENCED.“PEOPLE WOULD SCREAM ‘LBIAN’ AND JT MAKE FUN OF ME,” SHE SAID. “IT [WAS] JT SUCH AN UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT.”THE CLASSROOM WAS SOMETIM JT AS BAD. WHILE MULTIPLE ALUMNI EXPRSED WARMTH FOR THEIR TEACHERS, A NUMBER OF BLACK ALUMS SAID THAT THEIR WHE PEERS WOULD STOKE UNMORATED BAT THAT THEY FOUND OFFENSIVE, CLUDG WHETHER SLAVERY HAD BEEN A STAT’ RIGHTS ISSUE OR AN ENGE FOR ENOMIC GROWTH.“EVEN MY REGULAR HISTORY CLASS MANY STUNTS WOULD TRY TO JTIFY AS A MEANS OF LIKE, ‘OH, THAT’S WHY AMERI IS SO GREAT NOW,’” SAID CARDE.A LATA FORMER STUNT SAID THAT, DURG HER HMAN YEAR, AN STCTOR TEACHG A LSON ON LONIZATN LAT AMERI CID TO ASSIGN EACH MEMBER OF THE CLASS A HISTORIL ROLE BASED ON THEIR RACE.THE TEACHER LABELED ONE WHE STUNT A LONIZER—AND SAID THE LATA STUNT WOULD BE “THE DIGENO PERSON THAT THE LONIZER WOULD RAPE,” SHE RELLED. “AND I WAS JT LIKE, ‘WHAT THE FUCK?’” CLARENCE PATTON ENROLLED AS A HMAN AT MIDDLEX 1982, WHEN, HE SAID, THERE WERE NO BLACK FACULTY OR STAFF, AND HE WAS ONE OF MAYBE 10 BLACK STUNTS OUT OF ROUGHLY 300 TOTAL ENROLLE.AS HIS MOTHER DROPPED HIM OFF, HE SAID, SHE LEFT HIM WH A CLEAR SET OF STCTNS: “YOU’RE A TOKEN, AND YOUR JOB FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS IS TO BE THE BT TOKEN YOU N BE AND LEARN HOW THE FOLKS N THE WORLD. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED AND LEAVE THE RT.”PATTON SAYS HE TOOK HER WORDS SERLY, AND HE ENJOYED HIS TIME AT THE SCHOOL. “I LOVE MIDDLEX,” HE SAID. “I’VE GOT PRIMARILY FOND MEMORI OF .”PATTON DIDN’T PERSONALLY EXPERIENCE SER MISTREATMENT BASED ON HIS RACE, AK TO THE ALLEGATNS MA BY MORE RECENT ATTEN. BUT THAT DON’T SURPRISE HIM.“WHEN THERE ARE FEW OF ,” HE SAID, REFERRG TO BLACK STUNTS, “’S KD OF CUTE AND TOLERABLE. BUT YOU GET TO A CERTA CRIL MASS… THAT'S GOG TO ACTUALLY PUT PRSURE ON THE MUNY TO CHANGE.”THE RULTG TENSN HAS SEEMGLY REACHED A BOILG POT RECENT YEARS. AN INSTAGRAM ACUNT, BLACK AT MIDDLEX, WAS LNCHED 2020 AND HAS SCE DRAWN MORE THAN 100 ANONYMO GRIEVANC, LLS TO ACTN, AND STORI.ONE BLACK ALUMNA, WHO GRADUATED THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT SHE HAD SOUGHT TO GIVE A SPEECH ON MP ABOUT HER MIDDLEX EXPERIENCE, LIVERED “AS BLUNT AND STRAIGHTFORWARD AND HONT AS POSSIBLE.” BUT FACULTY MEMBERS EDED HER WORDS TO AVOID ALIENATG THOSE OUTSI THE BLACK MUNY.“THE BLACK VOIC ON MP WERE PRETTY MUCH SUPPRSED. AND ANY TIME THAT WE WERE GIVEN A PLATFORM TO SPEAK, WE HAD TO MAKE MORE, LIKE, PALATABLE FOR THE RT OF THE SCHOOL,” SHE SAID.ACRDG TO MULTIPLE ALUMNI WHO GRADUATED THE LAST FIVE YEARS, THE HOCKEY TEAM HAD A DISTCT REPUTATN FOR RACIST NDUCT. SOME MEMBERS WERE ALLEGEDLY KNOWN TO E THE N-WORD AND WOULD REFER TO BLACK GORILLA TAPE G THE SLUR.TWO FORMER STUNTS SAID THE TEAM NICKNAMED ONE OF S WEEKLY PRACTIC “MONKEY MONDAYS” TO MOCK A BLACK ATHLETE ON THE TEAM. (THE DAILY BEAST WAS NOT ABLE TO REACH THE ATHLETE DIRECTLY.)REURSE APPEARED LIMED. “THE HOCKEY ACH WOULD BASILLY SAY ‘DON’T DO THAT ANYMORE,’ AND THAT WOULD BE KD OF THE END OF THE NVERSATN,” A RECENT GRADUATE SAID.LACK OF FACULTY SUPPORT WAS A TREND, STUNTS ALLEGED. CARDE RELLED AN CINT WHEN A STAFF MEMBER ACSTED HER FOR PLAYG RAP MIC—A POPULAR GENRE AMONG WHE STUNTS, AS WELL.“SHE THEN BEGS YELLG AND TELLG ME THAT, ‘WE DON’T LISTEN TO THIS KD OF MIC,’” CARDE SAID. IN THE PROCS, “SHE LLED ME EVERY OTHER BLACK GIRL’S NAME BUT MY OWN.”CARDE SAID THE ADMISTRATN ASKED HER TO APOLOGIZE TO THE TEACHER, BUT SHE REFED.JON, OM THE CLASS OF 2019, REUNTED A SIAR EVENT WHICH, SHE SAID, SHE WAS HLED TO A MEETG WH THE AN FOR LLG NEW HAMPSHIRE “A TRASH STATE BEE HAD CONFERATE FLAGS,” EVEN THOUGH “ WAS NEVER A PART OF THE CONFERACY.”YET, JON ALLEGED, “ WAS WILY KNOWN THAT A CERTA STUNT WAS G RACIAL SLURS AGAST HER ROOMMATE, AND THAT DIDN’T WARRANT A AN’S MEETG.”“I THK THAT WAS REALLY THE WORST PART,” SHE ADD. “IT’S ONE THG FOR AN DIVIDUAL TO BE RACIST TO YOU. I THK ’S ANOTHER THG FOR AN STUTN TO ENABLE THAT RACISM AND GIVE POWER ENOUGH TO SUPPRS YOU.” ALEXANDRA JON SAID THERE WAS A “CULTURE OF SUPPRSN” WHEN SHE WAS AT MIDDLEX.COURTY ALEXANDRA JON CARDE SAYS THAT EACH YEAR, THE SCHOOL ASKED TO TERVIEW OR PHOTOGRAPH HER FOR PROMOTNAL MATERIALS, AN EFFORT TO APPEAR DIVERSE AND WELG.“IT’S NOT A GENUE REPRENTATN OF WHAT THIS POPULATN LOOKS LIKE. IT ALSO PROVIS A FALSE SENSE OF SECURY FOR THE PEOPLE OF LOR. THEY THK THAT THEY HAVE SUPPORT, BUT THEY GET THERE, AND THERE’S NOTHG,” SHE SAID.“AT THIS POT,” SHE SAID OF THE SCHOOL’S TRACK RERD, “’S REPULSIVE AND ’S REPETIVE.”NOW, ACRDG TO FORMER STUNTS, MIDDLEX IS NONTG TW CRIS: A SHORT-TERM BACLE ENTIRELY OF S OWN MAKG, AND ANOTHER, LONG-SIMMERG ONE. NOAH KIRSCH

)Ls regulated, some former stunts say, was a culture that uld lean sular, and at tim sexist, homophobic, and the school hosted an annual diversy symposium—the same event that Hannah-Jon would have attend this wter—“It fely wasn’t taken serly by the whe stunts, ” a whe Middlex graduate said. A queer alumna said she was too aaid to e out after wnsg rampant bullyg that forced a gay classmate to move off mp about a ago. "I regnize that discsns and celebratns of dividual inty are plex and impacted by dividual valu, religns, and cultural norms, the rult of which may clu exprsns of racism, anti-relig hate, ableism, and this se homophobia, " Supertennt Eric Conti wrote.

PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE

"The displays of tolerance and homophobia are unacceptable and impact the whole muny, " Burlgton Equy Coaln -chair, Nancy Bonassera, said at a town meetg Monday night. Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978. ” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe.

” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.

"Chos Car" is a Palm Sprgs Gay Men's Chos program providg outreach iativ throughout the Coachella Valley.

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"So jt pick up a uple ems of school suppli and drop them off our box, and we'll be there to greet you and tell everyone about the Palm Sprgs Gay Men's Chos, and what we have g up.

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Annie on My Md was published first 1982 amidst ntroversy bee of s posive portrayal of the story’s gay protagonists. Pal plaed that Daddy’s Roommate—a book that helps children unrstand homosexualy—did not belong the Wasilla Public Library. ’ The book has been banned other circumstanc for beg age appropriate and “promotg homosexualy.

They also acced librarians and other opponents of their efforts of promotg a homosexual agenda. PPMC objected specifilly to the book bee of s gay ntent, as well as the fact that proceeds om the sale of the book went to Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays.

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The book was nsired objectnable bee prented homosexualy a non-judgmental ntext and clud phras like ‘so what’s the big al…who r if your parents are both women’ and ‘I don’t re about your moms. The Hartsells objected to the book’s acknowledgement of homosexualy and also of divorce (“When I was your age, I’d been married twice already, ” the prce’s mother tells him, enuragg him to fd a mate).

It was also challenged a public library Lower Macungie, Pennsylvania 2007 by parents Eileen and Jeff Issa who requted the book’s removal due to s homosexual ntent. It’s Perfectly Normal was rtricted but later returned to general circulatn Holt Middle School library Fayetteville, Arkansas due to plats that was sexually explic; moved om the young adult to the adult sectn Ford Bend County Library Richmond, Texas; challenged but retaed the Montgomery County, Texas library system after the Republin Learship Council characterized the book as ‘vulgar’ and tryg to ‘mimize or even negate that homosexualy is a problem’; challenged a Holland, Massachetts public library; and challenged a Marn County, Florida public library for sexually explic ntent.

The latt ph: "Gay" clubs for kids middle schools. The homosexual-transgenr movement is workg hard to doctrate schoolchildren as young as possible. By far, the most effective way is to get them to school-based "gay" clubs that are n by activist, often radil, adults, but though otherwise unsupervised.