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Posted on 03/15/2026 8:54:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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.
Dana Stangel-Plowe resigned from teaching in 2021. 5 years later, she is sad to see that the environment in K-12 schools has only gotten worse.
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.
Colleagues debated whether emphasizing “logical” thinking was too Western compared to other ways of thinking. By my final year, the institutional transformation was complete.
Faculty was informed that the central assumption of the ideology — the pervasiveness of systemic oppression — could no longer be debated.
Colleagues began speaking openly about “deprogramming” and “de-radicalizing” students who disagreed with their orthodoxy.
The cost of the ideological takeover was unmistakable. My teenage students censored themselves. In class, they stopped engaging authentically with the material and one another, afraid of harming their classmates...
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Why do I always read these articles just before I need to sleep?
Now I’m gonna be up another two hours
You have to salt the ground to put an end to it.
DEI should be grounds for firing on the spot.
Same here. It is so insidious.
bkmrk
These “posh” private schools institutionalize these humiliation rituals to see which children they can molest.
Defund public education NOW!
We have to burn the village to save it.
Not a good idea to fire those who want to keep the peace.
As much as anything, posh private schools are training and testing grounds for the bureaucratic praetorian guard. Those who will go along with anything will go along with anything.
I loved the school’s focus on resilience and growthAs if that wasn't an adequate flag to see where the school was heading: how about focusing on "learning"?
DEI kills everything it touches!!
“dead white males” means the Founding Fathers.
That sentence confused me at first, too.
The education establishment reminds me so much of the Red Guard and Cultural Revolution in China. Many people who fled from China to escape that have seen this.
It’s the same playbook that the communists used to take over Russia in the 1910s and the Nazis used to take over Germany in the 1930s.
Ah, thanks for that info. I had no idea.
I’m sure this DEI orthodoxy that students are being indoctrinated into will go over well in the job market.
Didn’tEarnIt should be grounds for firing on the spot.
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