I am a high school English teacher caught in the middle of the national debate on DEI, gender, pronouns, identity and ‘transition’.

Right here in the middle of the country – the Kansas City metro area – the once highly rated Shawnee Mission school district, where I taught for 17 years, has veered sharply left, hides political activism and is pushing a radical “woke.” “ideology instead of fair and balanced education.

From 2019, when it is mandatory Diversity, equity and inclusion training began, teachers were subjected to repeated white-shaming sessions addressing what the district calls “white identity orientation,” and we were pressured to use psychological manipulation to, in the curriculum’s own words, “overcome resistance.”

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The $400,000 Corwin DEI curriculum our district embraces is rooted in radical Marxist extremism and indoctrinates with shocking anti-America, anti-family and anti-white propaganda.

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The Corwin Curriculum focuses on DEI rather than academiawith political ideology like this: “Because 90 percent of our nation’s teachers are white, the business of achieving greater equity and excellence in public education is largely a process of transforming the beliefs and behaviors of white educators.”

Through DEI’s mandated curriculum, white people are presented as the problem: “Together they (white people) face a collective collapse of the realities of race and their own whiteness” and “White supremacist hate groups are a particular form of hostile fundamentalist. white identity, but there’s also the Tea Party version that masks its racism under the guise of patriotism.”

The turn from academics to political indoctrination is summed up by Corwin’s DEI programming in his own words: Teaching is “the redistribution of privilege in the service of social justice.”

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After I wrote a letter asking our principal to ask for more balanced opinions without divisive, anti-white political ideology, the district subjected me to an “investigation” for “name” and then another bogus “investigation” for “gender identity discrimination.”

The district found no evidence of discrimination (I try not to use pronouns), but disciplined me anyway for using “incorrect pronouns once or twice during the school year” — an alleged violation of a nonexistent pronoun policy.

When teachers were told to hide from parents that their minor children were “transitioning” at school, I went public to explain to taxpayers what was happening in the district, to expose the controversial race-based curriculum the district refuses to release. the public, warns of the reasons for the worsening teacher shortage and explains the low number of student performances.

For my efforts, I received tremendous public support, but also hateful backlash, blatant misrepresentations of my positions and actions, and an increasingly hostile work environment. As additional punishment, I was dropped from AP classes and asked to oversee team meetings for a year.

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I appealed the discipline, I tried to take my case to arbitration as stipulated in the teacher’s contract, and I even tried to get the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate. But the district did not participate in the appeal or arbitration and ignored the EEOC’s request for information.

Its wrong to force teachers to go with a lie and force them to hide information from their parents. It’s just as wrong for the district to force us to say things we don’t believe and that go against our religious or moral beliefs.

After exhausting all other options available to me over the last 19 months, the district left me with no alternative but to file a lawsuit. As a single mother on a teacher’s salary, I tried to do everything I could to avoid having to take this step, but there is no other way.

The lawsuit details how the district disclosed the allegations under a nonexistent policy because I objected to the caustic and divisive DEI program and because I object to being forced to say things I don’t believe.

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I just want to teach the kids and not be forced to lie to students, parents or anyone. I care about all my students – every single one of them. We should be kind, compassionate and loving as we strive to give them the best education possible. I work towards this goal every day, every year, with every student. But I refuse to deceive themand I will not be compelled to say things that are not true or useful.

When teachers enter the classroom, we don’t leave our constitutionally protected liberties at the door. In the interest of our students and families who deserve better, and in the face of those in the district who try to bully me into submission, I am not afraid to stand true to my beliefs and values. If that means I have to go to court, so be it.

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