School districts can bully employees into submitting to the diversity agenda, a federal court ruled recently.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit recently ruled against two employees of Springfield Public Schools in Missouri who sued for damages after allegedly being forced to undertake “equity training” in 2020.
The two employees, Brooke Henderson and Jennifer Lumley, objected to the training on the grounds that it represented “compelled speech.”
Both were admonished for sharing their personal opinions about race. “At the training, Henderson expressed her view that Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020,” according to the court ruling. The presenter told her she was “wrong.”
The presenter told Lumley she “was born into white privilege” after the staff member shared how she was born in a “low-income household.”
Henderson had to select a subjective answer to a question about racism in order to complete the training. The training module asked how to respond to “racism and xenophobia in the classroom.” This may sound like a subjective question that relies on prudential judgment, but not to the “equity” trainers.