His commentary was idiotic and overly simplistic, his perspective
distorted by privilege and arrogance, his ideas shallow and feeble.
Describing the school from a self - consciously progressive point of view, the authors toggle between accusations that the school's disparities
by race and class are delusory figments of
distorted thinking, or that, although objectively real, they are the products of structural racism, class
privilege, parental selfishness, and discrimination.