@MissouriChamber is STILL pushing DEI.
— MO Education Watch (@MOEdWatch) January 7, 2024
2024 DEI Conference.
Why? @LtGovMikeKehoe is endorsed by the Missouri Chamber and running for Missouri Governor 2024.
The Chamber is a leftist lobby that no conservative should be working with. #moleg pic.twitter.com/4JA6mRJMEU
That Harvard's plagiarist President Claudine Gay was forced to resign in order to stop the credibility bleed at the university, is great news for local government schools. What happens at the university level percolates down to the K-12 educational institutions, as well as business.
DIE, or DEI has been implemented in our local Christian County Schools. Administrators and school boards should expect to be held accountable for its implementation. It's one reason why there is chaos in our schools, whether it is how testing is done, how students are disciplined, how they are taught to feel about themselves and others, and so on.
On X, Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square, wrote a post about it. He said in part, "But as we all know, our higher education system (HES) is critically important as it can affect and influence the minds of our younger generations, thereby profoundly impacting the lives of all of us. The HES can affect what’s taught to toddlers and what is taught in elementary and high schools, as ed schools train the next generation of teachers and superintendents, and design the curricula they teach. The HES can convince a generation that some of us are oppressors, and others are the oppressed, and provide justifications for what kinds and what degree of violence and terrorism are appropriate tools to address this perceived oppression. The HES can affect our medical establishments and the ethics of medicine, e.g., some of our most controversial procedures and medicines, and the advisability of their use on children, and so on. You get the point, I am sure."
In the short video below, Ayaan Hirsi Ali also discusses how Diversity Inclusion, and Equity can affect local schools, and how important it is that this pernicious agenda be destroyed. The Harvard Black Swan Event is also our opportunity to divest our local schools of DIE. Watch:
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| Image: Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce |
David Rice has written an excellent article, Chamber of Commerce or Radical Left Communism?, about the role of local chambers of commerce in subverting our communities. In particular, our local schools are often partners with the Chamber of Commerce, allowing the implementation of agendas that turn our schools into tools for multinationals and businesses that seek compliant, submissive workers--not well-rounded, thinking individuals.
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| Image: Ozark Chamber of Commerce |
In fact, you should check out who in your local school district is also members and even board members of the chambers of commerce.
It's not just Springfield. Ozark and Clever have current or former school staff and school board members who are also involved with their chambers of commerce. Nixa is not immune, either. The sad thing is that many Chamber members and even school leaders are not aware or fully aware of the agendas they are helping to enforce. It's time they knew.
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| Image: Clever Chamber of Commerce |
These public/private partnerships always end up serving the interests of business and not students or taxpayers. From David's article: "The people who support the radicalization of the Greater Springfield Area will give up our ability to self-govern if it enriches them. In fact, they are eager to help radicalize our children so they are incapable of rational thought and using their liberty responsibly."
If you've been wondering why our schools have become pipelines for SEL, DEI, and trauma-based education, you can thank organizations like the Chamber of Commerce, as well as government. It's time to take our schools back from Business, and make them about the business of education.
UPDATE: This is what our chambers are up to--
The Missouri Chamber of Commerce 2030 plan wants to commandeer education systems. #moleg pic.twitter.com/7KyPUhUPKR
— MO Education Watch (@MOEdWatch) January 1, 2024
@right2winozarks Happy New Year. Cheers to the awakening.
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This is real, not satire. The Ivies are woke madrassas. They are helping to ruin America. May they get the comeuppance they so richly deserve. pic.twitter.com/5vIYZvW2w8
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 31, 2023
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A must read by James Lindsay at his New Discourses site. Lindsay lays out how the DIE (or DEI) industry manipulates our goodwill to push dangerous agendas into our schools and businesses.
FTA:
"Among these manipulations at the very core of these consultancy projects
are three seemingly anodyne and now sacrosanct words: “Diversity,”
“Inclusion,” and “Equity.” These are what they’re selling to us to a
tune of untold billions of dollars a year in return for a society that
gets increasingly dysfunctional as a result, and we have a right to know
why. We have a right to see how we’re being lied to and manipulated by
these three words. We actually do have to understand the terms
“Diversity,” “Inclusion,” and “Equity” in their proper “Critical” meanings—because that’s what they’re really selling—to understand what’s going on. All of these represent political agendas,
not something helpful, useful, moral, or anything remotely close to
what people should think is warm, fuzzy, and worth getting behind.
Speaking corporately, it would be better to set our money on fire than
to spend it on these programs because they don’t just waste money but
will cause increased costs more or less perpetually afterward."
Read "The Diversity Delusion" here.
Right to Win Ozarks joins Patrick Holland and Friends on the Missouri Freedom Inititative livestream:
More here. Apparently they have a way to go since they are spotlighting DEI in their December 2023 newsletter, a year later. It took a long while to corrupt the schools, and it will take a while to bring them back to sanity.
NEW: a group of Moms for Liberty backed school board members were sworn in Tuesday
— Tyler Kingkade (@tylerkingkade) November 17, 2022
Within 2 hours, they’d fired the superintendent & the district’s lawyer, banned CRT and set up a committee to determine books to ban for “pornographic content”https://t.co/tRcOMub2nD
The election for Clever voters to approve/disapprove the bond is April 2, 2024, which is the General Municipal Election. The bond is for over $16 million. Other local school districts have also voted to max out their bonds.
As Retha Holland says in the video, it's a BONDEMIC. Holland shares how school board members in districts all over the state are pressured to make financial (and other) decisions as one, which is a feature of the "training" that the Missouri School Boards Association gives to board members.
As Holland says, these bonds are usually 20-year debts, which are added on to as time and finances permit. This means that the kids in the schools now will eventually be paying on that same debt if they decide to stay in Clever.
Currently, 80% of property taxes goes to the Clever School District--which is the highest in Christian County.
Keep up with Patrick and Retha Holland at Missouri Freedom Initiative. Lots of information about state and local politics.
