What Will U-turn in Education Do?

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By Gretchen Garrity

Missouri State University has ended its DEI program. The K-12 schools can't be far behind. The paroxysms of disbelief and dismay can be found HERE. And the original announcement from the Springfield Daily Citizen is HERE.

DEI was always a racism-in-disguise program that has finally been ended by President Trump's administration and state officials who are following his lead. Let's just be clear, in the end this was always about money. As long as the state and federal dollars were flowing toward DEI programs, the university rolled along. 

Here's the money quote from Missouri State President Dr. Richard B. Williams: “As a university, we value diverse thought and actions and support all our students, faculty and staff. However, 38% of our budget comes from the state. For us to continue providing a quality education to our students, we must align with the requirements laid out by state leadership.”

If the university truly believed in DEI programs, wouldn't they take a principled stand and fight, regardless of the dollars? While Missouri State University Prof. Elizabeth Dudash-Buskirk, foundress of U-turn in Education has been active in dissenting from MSU's decision, where is the statement from U-turn in Education? Waiting eagerly for their response to MSU's actions.

Prof. Dudash-Buskirk is consistent, at least.

MSU is a publicly-funded educational institution. Perhaps it will keep U-turn in Education busy for a day or two and give citizens a break who are fighting to protect parental rights and children in the Christian County Library, as well as in public school libraries.

Nah. Brace yourselves. :-)

Meeting Today

 

The Agenda Goes Deeper Than You Think

 

David Rice finishes up his series "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" with "Washing the Spider Out." In it he details how local progressive groups like U-Turn in Education and their comrades promote a hard-left agenda with help from other organizations and individuals. It's all done quietly, except for all the awards and such that serve to fool the public into thinking said individuals and organizations are crusading do-gooders. From his article,

"U-Turn represents one of the necessary tools in this new system. They are essentially cheap marketing and PR arms for publishers of books like Fun Home and Gender Queer. I do not know why women fill the ranks of organizations like U-Turn or why women see this as an existential fight to save marginalized communities and help them find their true selves. I don’t know their motivation and can only guess why U-Turn has decided to promote sexually explicit and racist books as a PR firm for Publishers and the ALA. Yet, they do and participate in propaganda to mislead their local communities because they believe they have moral justification for doing so."

We all need to be 'wise as serpents and harmless as doves' these days. The extent to which we are manipulated and emotionally coerced can seem overwhelming when we first awaken to what has happened to our institutions and how they have been colonized by a progressive agenda. But, as Rice closes his article:

"We were meant to see this dangerous web, not to be caught in it, but to witness its existence and understand its intent." 

Once you see what they have done, you can never unsee it. Exposing the web to the light of truth is powerful. Please read and share Rice's series. "Now it is high time to awake out of sleep." (Rom. 13:11)