NYC Assistant Principal Becomes Second School Official to Reveal Discriminatory Hiring Practices, Child Indoctrination Strategy … If Candidates Answer ‘Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Question’ Incorrectly ‘They Are Just an Automatic Not Hire’
• Todd Soper, Grade K-4 Assistant Principal, Neighborhood Charter
Schools, NYC Department of Education: “We have very specific questions,
and ultimately our Diversity-Equity-Inclusion question, our DEI question
is -- it's very telling if somebody has done a lot of work within
themself, within the profession…if people don’t answer that question
right, they are just an automatic not hire.”
• Soper: “If they
[candidates] say that diversity is about -- if they say something that
lends itself to be colorblind, which could happen, like, ‘Oh, it's like,
you know, like everyone is equal.’ Those things that are well
intentioned statements, but they're missing the depth of understanding
of how the intersections of our identity live out in the world. So, that
person wouldn’t get hired.”
• Soper: “Our students’ lives matter
based on the color of their skin, and how that intertwines into the
context of the world. So, if you're not willing to embrace fully that
aspect of our students -- and that means talking openly about race and
talking about injustices in the world, then I don't know if you're going
to be able to fully fulfill your [teacher] responsibilities.”
•
Soper: A teacher “didn’t want to teach Black Lives Matter” ideology to
her students and left the school. “She would’ve probably been fired
eventually just based off of mindset. But yeah, she left.”
• Soper:
“We have always and will continue to embrace diversity on all levels.
So, the same way we embrace identities that are based off of ethnicity,
skin tone and gender, we also embrace orientation…Like for kindergarten,
for Pride month, we got -- every kid had a mirror and we talked about
-- a read aloud about an animal, or about a boy that said he wanted to
be a mermaid. It’s a way..
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