Education leaders must hear diverse perspectives on DEI and be willing to share opposing positions with students and teachers. Please use the sample letter as a reference when you engage your local school district leaders in a conversation on DEI. Feel free to modify the letter as you see fit.

Dear Board Trustees and Superintendent,

Happy Thanksgiving! On this traditional American holiday, I hope you are as appreciative to our country and its traditional values of freedom, equality, grit, agency and perseverance as I am. In this spirit, I want to urge you to take immediate actions to safeguard public education in our local schools by doing away with harmful diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

While the cultural establishment and the legacy media often promote how wonderful DEI programs are, there is growing evidence otherwise. Reputed researchers from Harvard, Rutgers and the Network Contagion Research Institute documented many negative effects of carrying out DEI training to combat so-called “systemic oppression.” They found that DEI training exacerbates bias, prejudice and far-left authoritarianism. This is not Fox News or the National Review. Please take a look at the study: https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/Instructing-Animosity_11.13.24.pdf.

Many universities and companies are ditching DEI. MIT, University of North Carolina, state universities in Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, and Kentucky are eliminating DEI positions. Boeing, Ford, Lowes, Zoom, and most recently, Walmart are curbing their DEI commitments.

We must do better. And you, who are entrusted by our community and local parents with the education, development and edification of our precious next generation, can do better!

It is time that our school district catches up and reviews our own policies, programs and activities. Is our Ethnic Studies class designed to teach identities, power and oppression? Do school district employees and teachers need to pledge support to DEI, racial justice or racial equity? Are our students forced to accept DEI as a universally held truth?

If DEI is being propagated in our schools, make a decision to defund it. At the minimum, you should provide our students and teachers the opportunity to access opposing arguments for and against DEI. Show them the study and tell them about the growing movement to roll back DEI. Allowing access to such information is the first step against indoctrination.

Please take action today. Our kids and our community deserve it.