Hardvard Westlake is the top private school in Los Angeles. It's the most expensive and the hardest to get into. They offer an awesome three-week academic summer camp each year in which the kids get to take three classes each day. Anders was very excited to do this camp. He signed up for a class in debate, one on music, and and one on business.
The debate class and the music class turned out to be amazing. He loves them. The business class turned out to be ... not what he was expecting. It is called "Lemonade Stand." Harvard Westlake offers it every year. It is one of their most popular classes. The course description reads, "Calling all problem-finders, problem-solvers, and inventors! Lemonade Stand is here to ignite your creative, entrepreneurial spirit."
Anders had an app idea that he really wanted to develop and thought this class would be the perfect place to do it. Instead he watched videos of black entrepreneurs starting social justice companies and then filled out worksheets about them, was told to bring some trash from home and invent something with it while thinking about how to solve global warming, watched videos of (never white) children inventing things to help others, and spent a class period trying to solve homelessness.
Anders did not continue with the class after four days as he wanted a business class. But I thought I would share this as I am sure that most Harvard Westlake parents are not aware that the "business" class they just signed their kid up for is really a primer in guilt, social justice, and wokeness.
Nauseating. But I suspect most Harvard Westlake parents are delighted that their children are being indoctrinated in this nonsense under the pretense of taking a "Business" class. I know plenty of Harvard Westlake grads and a more self-satisfied, hard-left, anti-business crowd you'll be hard-pressed to find.
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