The former head of the DEI program in Upper Arlington was caught on tape revealing how he schemed to work around parents' objections so he could do what he wanted.
Linda Harvey of Mission America says a small minority of liberals began pushing to reinstate the neo-Marxist program. The local school board passed the measure last week by a 4-1 vote.
"It looks like they're going to try to reallocate resources to have another whole diversity program with staff and all of that attached to it, which people don't want."
Among the goals is to reduce equity gaps, which it defines as outcome disparities based on identify characteristics, according to the district's policy draft.
Harvey says the district is drifting from what should be the mission of public education.
"That seems not only unfair and very likely discriminatory, but impossible. There are too many variables in the lives of students to fix everything perceived to be wrong. THIS IS NOT THE SCHOOL’S JOB — to micromanage everyone’s lives, approve some views and not others," she wrote for a story at MissionAmerica.com.
More of the same DEI
She expects Upper Arlington's new DEI program to be heavily weighted toward the transgender lifestyle.
“We know exactly how popular that is with the community. It's not popular at all. It's only a tiny, tiny minority of students. But everybody is going to have to, evidently, use the correct pronouns, usher boys into girls' bathrooms and on the sports teams."
