The school year has begun in Fairbanks and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee is in full swing. A standing committee of the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board, it advises on matters relating to race, sexual orientation, and other social issues as part of the liberal agenda.
DEI is a form of reinforcing various self-selected identities, and critics say it breeds hatred and racial division.
Read what Sen. JD Vance had to say about DEI’s harmful agenda at this Senate link.
This year, two of the three parent representatives on the committee are also, in a nod to nepotism, spouses of school board members.
With roughly 12,000 students in the school districts, the spouses of School Board members Bobby Burgess (Kristen Schupp) and Meredith Maple (Kel Gitter) are the parent representatives on the DEI Committee.
At the group’s first meeting of the school year, Aug. 21, the committee breezed through the agenda at the school district offices.
Agenda here.
The committee then adjourned and several committee members gathered at the offices of the Queer Collective.