The DEI scourge in K-12 education has only gotten worse since I blew the whistle on my own school
NY Post
Five years ago, I blew the whistle on a school I loved. Did it make a difference?
I taught high school English at an independent school in New Jersey for seven years. I loved the school’s focus on resilience and growth. I loved my colleagues, who challenged and nurtured our students, including my own children, who attended the school. And I felt lucky to be part of such a vibrant learning community. That all changed in 2014.
A young dean, fresh from an education conference hosted by the National Association of Independent Schools, led the faculty in what we now recognize as a “privilege walk,” in which participants were forced to take a step forward or back based on their identities.
Where they end up in relation to their colleagues signals how much privilege or oppression they supposedly experience.
Soon, the school hired a DEI officer, who admitted privately that her job was to “transform” the school. The oppressor–victim ideology soon appeared everywhere: weekly student programming, faculty training, and course offerings.
In my department, “dead white males” were explicitly “disinvited” from the core curriculum.
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Five years ago, I blew the whistle on a school I loved. Did it make a difference?
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