The Exeter Region Cooperative School District is openly violating New Hampshire's anti-CRT law.
The Exeter Region Cooperative School District is openly violating New Hampshire's anti-CRT law.
The state Department of Education should investigate.
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“Part of our educational mission is to awaken our students’ awareness of their power and privilege so that they may view the world through a lens of equity and help eliminate unjust systems and practices.”
And in that simple sentence, one taken from a document called “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in SAU16” the Exeter Region Cooperative School District landed itself in open violation of New Hampshire’s HB2, otherwise known as the divisive concepts bill or the anti-CRT law.
That’s not the only thing that may land them in trouble. And they’re doing it completely publicly, where everyone can see it if they take the time to look.
Let me explain.
In the Exeter Regional School District, their equity office is called Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice, or DEIJ for sure. So, I went to their website and searched for DEIJ. Here’s what came up.
Right in the middle was the “About DEIJ in SAU16” page. Perfect! I clicked on that link and ended up looking at this document, a missions statement of sorts:
Here’s the problem SAU16 now has: On June 15, 2021, New Hampshire’s divisive concepts bill was signed into law as a part of HB2. It is not a perfect bill, by any means. Governor Chris Sununu and his cronies watered it down before he signed it, which makes it less effective. However, it did include the following language:
The law specifically and unequivocally says that the government cannot teach that individuals are inherently racist, sexist, and oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.
If this is still the mission of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice program at SAU16 today (and we have no reason to believe it’s not because it’s on their website), then the Exeter Region Cooperative School District is in open and flagrant violation of the law for this reason:
You CANNOT teach students “awareness of their power and privilege” without also teaching them that some people are inherently oppressive and some people are inherently oppressed.
If some people have “power and privilege”, that means that other people do not have power and privilege.
People with power and privilege are oppressive and people without power and privilege are oppressed.
That is inherent to the argument of power and privilege.
That means you cannot teach this as a part of a public high school curriculum in the state of New Hampshire without violating the law. It is not possible.
So, either this is the true and current mission of the SEIJ program in SAU16 and they are breaking the law, or it is not and they are in compliance. But if it’s not the current mission, then what replaced it? And why is this one still on their website?
This alone is enough to prove they’re breaking the law. But, there’s more weird stuff.
Let’s meet the “Racial Unity Team”
In researching something else that was going on at Exeter High School, I came across something called the Racial Unity Team. I came across an event listed on Facebook for the Racial Unity Team of New Hampshire, which I had seen mentioned on the SAU16 website. They were holding an event (almost two weeks AFTER the divisive concepts bill was signed into law) and said they had received a $7500 grant from the state of New Hampshire.
That $7,500 grant means that the state of New Hampshire may be funding a program that is breaking state law by teaching this content in schools.
I recognized it because “Racial Unity Team” was all over the “DEIJ Happenings” website:
They had done this video in which students performed songs and read essays about racial justice. Again, note that this was posted on July 16, 2021, one month AFTER the divisive concepts bill was signed into law, and seems to have been taken from a live stream.
In that video was a few weird things.
There was this clip of one of the co-founders of the Racial Unity Team, Sylvia Foster, talk about getting funded by the state, and how she came to work with Exeter High School after she was brought in by ELO coordinator Adam Krauss (more on him in a moment) because there were “passionate teachers who would share their curriculum on justice.”
(I found myself asking “Why do teachers have a curriculum on justice?”)
She went on to say “We became part of the DNA of the classroom.”
Now, I’ve seen enough videos like this to know exactly what it means when a group called “Racial Unity Project” becomes “part of the DNA of the classroom.” And sure enough, I found what I knew I would.
Later in this video, I found this student discussing a project she did in conjunction with Racial Unity Project staff called “Bookshelf Diversity” that they even brag about on their website.
In this video, the student says:
“If we can think about our identity as well, we can check our privilege and maybe think about some ways we’ve been unfairly treated based on things we can’t change.”
The student in this video did nothing wrong - they are repeating the things that adults have told them to say. But it is very clear that they have been taught about power and privilege because there would be no need for her to say “check your privilege” if someone hadn’t taught her that.
And in this clip a little later on in the video, a student says
“Racism is a belief ingrained in the systems and minds of white Americans.”
Again, the teaching that anyone is inherently racist based on their skin color violates New Hampshire state law. If she didn’t learn this in school, then where did she learn it?
To Kill a Mockingbird is Racist
But, that’s not the only odd thing about the Racial Unity Project. They also worked with Exeter High School’s ELO Coordinator Adam Krauss (mentioned earlier) and English Teachers Dennis Magliozii and Kristina Peterson to disrupt the way they teach To Kill a Mockingbird because the normal way was deemed a little too racist.
“This year, one of the goals when reading Mockingbird is to critically examine why Harper Lee focuses on certain characters and round out those who stories are not told. This move to look at the novel through the lens of underrepresented characters in the book has served as an entry point into critical conversations about race the equity.”
On their website, they go into greater detail about the changes they made to the curriculum with a “DEIJ lens”. Here are some quotes:
“Three teachers have collaborated to reset their lenses and ask the tough questions about how and what they teach with DEIJ in mind.”
“Magliozzi and Peterson, both English Teachers, have been working with Mockingbird for 10 years at Exeter High School. Despite their best efforts, they could not find a way they felt cast the discussion about issues of race and equity in a way they felt worked well.”
Instead of studying the book, they appeared to make it into a character study of Atticus Finch as a white man and a lesson for students in how they can be activists:
Once they did that, the students did an art project about what it’s like to be black in America with the goal of creating art for social change.
The teachers concluded that their work on revamping how To Kill A Mockingbird is taught achieved a level of justice that Atticus Finch could not have aspired to.
It’s all very incestuous.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Adam Krauss, Dennis Magliozzi, and Kristina Peterson are also listed as members on the Racial Unity Team’s Leadership Team website:
And not only that, but David Ryan, the Superintendent of the Exeter Region Cooperative School District is on the Board Of Directors:
Does the Racial Unity Team, and their members working for the Exeter Regional Cooperative School District, know they are breaking the law?
Yes, they do.
And we know that because they have a public statement on their website denouncing the divisive concepts bill and saying they will lobby in favor of its repeal.
They claim that they are not breaking the law…but the problem is they didn’t read the whole law. They just cherry-picked one of the components of it that they are not breaking, while ignoring the clear component of the law that they are breaking.
You cannot teach what the Racial Unity Group and the Exeter Regional Cooperative School District are teaching students without breaking this part of the law. It is not possible.
The State of New Hampshire must investigate if these practices and partnerships are still in place today.
Superintendent David Ryan has some explaining to do. Particularly since he’s on the Board of Directors of the group operating within his school district that seems to be in open violation of New Hampshire State law.
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This is a great find. I’m working on this in CA, and unfortunately, state law backs the groomers. All the stuff we’re warned about in regard to transing the kids behind parents’ backs is *recommended* by the CA CDC. Must keep digging.