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For the better part of two years, the Pentagon’s K-12 school system has been embroiled in controversy over its focus on adding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) to every aspect of the programming.
It all began when the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) hired its first-ever Diversity Equity and Inclusion chief, Kelisa Wing. She was eventually exposed for her history of racially inflammatory statements.
As Congress investigated how her office promoted oppressor-oppressed narratives and radical gender ideology in the classroom, the Biden-Harris administration agreed to shut down the DEI department. In a letter to Congress, they said they would re-assign her to a role that didn’t involve the neo-Marxist worldview.
Well, re-assign her they did, but only briefly. A few months later, she had left DOD entirely and popped back up at the Department of Education, and at higher pay.
Had Wing simply flown the coop to spread DEI elsewhere in the administration?
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