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Project Veritas in Cos Cob, Prejudicial Subtleties


Historian Arthur Schlesinger, the unofficial poet laureate of the John. F. Kennedy administration, used to say, rightly, that anti-Catholicism is the oldest prejudice in the United States. It was brought to these shores in the Mayflower and has persisted underground ever since. Not only is it an old and moss grown prejudice -- shelved, some wrongly think, by Kennedy’s election to the presidency – it is insidiously wrong-headed.

One wonders if Assistant Principal Jeremy Boland of Cos Cob Elementary School, as toney and modish as Greenwich, but less elite, presents such lessons to his students.

Wonder no more. A Washington D.C. based investigative reporter for Project Veritas has upturned the rock.

Cos Cob students might know that the notorious Klu Klux Klan was every bit as anti-Catholic as it was anti-Black if only its school personnel, hired or not by Boland, were less -- shall we say it? – anti-Catholic.

The interview with pro-woke Boland is brought to us courtesy of Project Veritas, a group of investigative journalists who regularly document the leftist project across the United States. That project now includes a not so subtle subversion of what we might call de-politicized teaching in elementary schools.

"You’re teaching them how to think. That’s it. It doesn’t matter what they think about. If they think about it in a logical, progressive way, that becomes their habit," Boland told the Project Veritas reporter, who asked, “So, you kind of like, gear them to think in a more liberal way?"

It is Boland’s ambition to insert into young minds habits of thought – ideologies? – that will lead students to a desired political end, the very definition of political propaganda.

 "And then later down the line they’re gonna vote Democrat and you will have done a great service to our country," the reporter interjected.

Boland nodded affirmatively, adding, “I hope … believe it or not, the open-minded, more progressive teachers are actually more savvy (sic) about delivering a Democratic message without really ever having to mention their politics. It’s subtle . They’ll never say, 'oh, this is a liberal or a Democratic way of doing this.' They’ll just make that the norm. And this is how we handle things, it’s subtle.”

But suppose the parents of such students, considerably more grown-up than their sons and daughters, should object to the subtle shepherding of students towards a progressive mindset. Then what?

Concerning the normalizing of subversive pedagogical propaganda, the reporter asked, “So, you kind of like, gear them to think in a more liberal way? And that’s how you get away with it?"

Boland: “"That’s how you get away with it."

Boland was less subtle concerning the hiring of Catholic teachers in Cos Cob. How do you de-Catholicize the educational staff?

You just don’t hire Catholics. You weed them out in hiring interviews, subtly of course.

Boland: "I’m not allowed to ask their political leanings and they’re not allowed to ask me. So it just comes down to the questions. One of the questions that I might start including is something about transgender students, students that are — identify — what is it, non-binary?”

Should the interviewee cough up an answer to Boland’s question that might easily target him or her as a Catholic -- "Well, I don’t think kids have enough knowledge to make that decision [gender identity] for themselves (sic)" – Boland said, “You’re out.”

Naturally, heterodox Catholics would be acceptable hires or school visitors. One cannot imagine Boland refusing to allow U.S. Representatives John Larson or Rosa DeLauro, both nominal Catholics, access to his students. Sniffing the fetid political air, Boland fancies he can easily identify nominal Catholics whose progressive enlightened views on abortion, for instance, give weight to Boland’s own unsubtle Democrat Party leanings.

Boland’s message is simplicity itself: If you are a conservative, or an orthodox Catholic or Jew, or an older teacher wise in the ways of pedagogy, you need not apply for a teaching position in Cos Cob.

That message has now been broadcast on multiple media platforms. Whether Connecticut’s media, sympathetic to Boland’s aims and hiring methods, will summon up enough moral courage to denounce both is yet an open question.

The reader of these lines might do well to ask how many conservatives are presently on the staffs of Connecticut’s left of center media outlets. And does the predictable left of center political orientation presented on editorial pages across the state – placid towards progressives and unduly harsh towards Connecticut conservatives – suggest that discriminatory hiring protocols are not unique to forward looking pedagogues such as Boland?


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