This is the mess the storm made. It was an equal-opportunity storm.
President Donald Trump’s administration will provide Asheville, NC, with relief funds to clean up after Hurricane Helene (last September)–but those funds are NOT to be used to promote a “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion” agenda, says HUD Secretary Scott Turner (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0_cvDzYmlY).
“Prioritizing assistance based on race and gender identification rather than need” is a no go, said Turner.”DEI is dead at HUD.”
Asheville has asked for $225 million in aid. After this little dust-up over DEI, the city has promised to comply… and NOT “prioritize Minority and Women-Owned Businesses (MWBE)…”
Ooh! What a nice acronym!
Far Left Crazy has a huge investment in DEI and will try every trick in the book to keep it going. Watch out for a name-change in the near future.
I would think that money earmarked for disaster relief should go to solving the practical problems caused by the disaster. Using disaster relief funds to effect social change strikes me as missing the point.
Using disaster relief funds to effect social change is precisely what Secretary Turn is refusing to do.
I remember, way back in grade school, that there were attempts to mold us socially and politically. It was presented as being considerate and kind but at the core of it was a prohibition against criticizing others, even if their conduct was poor.
If there was a troublemaker, we were supposed to be understanding, which ignored the fact that this one person’s misconduct was disruptive to everyone else in class. It struck me poorly, even at the time. Yes, we should be considerate of others, and show compassion, but if that person is causing their own problems and making matters worse for others, maybe they need to clean up their act and not cause disruption. It was subtle, but the results were predictable, and unjust.
I’m skeptical of public education, at best. My public education did me some good, but was inefficient and hindered by a handful of children in various classes whom behaved poorly and consumed the lion’s share of attention. From what I’ve heard, the situation is far worse today.
Try substitute teaching sometime. You won’t believe what you see and hear. And not just from a few bad kids.
Substitute teachers, in particular, are truly targets, because they don’t have much, if any, effect on a student’s grade, etc.
I took some technical training when I was in my 30s, and some of the students were fairly young, just a few years out of high school I was appalled by the behavior many of these youngsters had. This was expensive technical training, costing each one of us a substantial amount of money. Some of the students treated the instructors like the enemy, apparently forgetting that this was not compulsory education, but in fact was exactly what each of us were paying for.
The other thing I noticed is that when a problem arose, none of the younger people in class were willing to accept responsibility for their own actions. Two real smart Alecs decided to pull a prank one day, and inadvertently caused a significant fire risk which potentially endangered hundreds of students. It was childish, and only served to prove that these people were children, and not up to adulthood responsibility.
When this came to the attention of the administrators, they acted swiftly, but among the younger students, the whole kerfuffle was the fault of the adult students who reported the matter, and the persons that had caused the incident were seen as victims. I came away with the impression that many of the students in their early 20s were small children in adult bodies. The contrast in willingness to accept responsibility, between the over 30 year olds and the under 30 year olds, was dramatic.
Public education has failed at every level and must be replaced.