Shawnee Mission teacher sues district over 'gender ideology' and diversity policies

[Duncan Grant]

4. It's in retaliation to DEI. She's a white supremacist. Found a 2023 interview...

Sullivan said SMSD is fostering a “toxic environment and requiring employees to attend Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) training and workshops centered around Critical Race Theory, including Black Lives Matter in the Classroom and Social Justice in the Classroom (using teachers’ ‘white privilege,’ ‘white supremacy’ and ‘de-colonizing our classrooms’ propaganda).

“There is repeated white shaming and a preoccupation with white people as the ‘oppressor,’ including staff field trips with a focus on ‘systemic racism.’ The white saviorism and virtue-signaling at DEI meetings is so condescending that many minorities and other staff members have stopped attending.”

Sullivan said teachers were informed at a staff meeting in April (and on many other occasion) they should refer to students “by their preferred names and pronouns during the school day, but hide from the parents the fact that their minor children are transitioning at school. The district conceals the transgender policies from the public and will not release the DEI presentations we are compelled to watch.”…

“There is a strong anti-capitalism, anti-conservatism, and anti-American bias in the DEI curriculum, with an emphasis on ‘white fragility’ and ‘how to be antiracist,'” Sullivan wrote. “I have been in workshops where teachers were discussing how to incorporate The 1619 Project into their English curriculum and how to use Orwell’s book 1984 in class as propaganda against those of one political party.”

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