The U.S. Department of Education has launched an online “End DEI” portal for parents, teachers and other community members to submit reports of discrimination based on race or sex occurring in public K-12 schools.
The portal allows for the submission of a school or school district and provides a form for detailing any potential discriminatory practice taking place.
“The U.S. Department of Education is committed to ensuring all students have access to meaningful learning free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination,” a statement from the department about the portal reads. “This submission form is an outlet for students, parents, teachers, and the broader community to report illegal discriminatory practices at institutions of learning.”
The Department of Education say they will utilize the community submissions to identify potential areas for investigation.
The release of the portal comes less than a week after the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent a letter to the Maine Department of Education (Maine DOE) Commissioner Pender Makin announcing that they have initiated an investigation into the Maine DOE for continuing to allow male athletes to compete in girls’ athletics.
The letter also announced that the OCR is investigating Maine School Administrative District #51 (MSAD #51) over reports that the district is continuing to allow at least one male student at Greely High School to compete in girls’ categories.
The transgender-identifying, biological male athlete recently won first place in the girls’ pole vault competition during the Maine Indoor Track Meet is from Cumberland’s Greely High School.
“Maine would have you believe that it has no choice in how it treats women and girls in athletics—that is, that it must follow its state laws and allow male athletes to compete against women and girls,” said Craig Trainor, the federal Department of Education’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights.
“Let me be clear: If Maine wants to continue to receive federal funds from the Education Department, it has to follow Title IX. If it wants to forgo federal funds and continue to trample the rights of its young female athletes, that, too, is its choice,” Trainor said. “OCR will do everything in its power to ensure taxpayers are not funding blatant civil rights violators.”
In recent years, Maine schools have leaned heavily into gender-related programming and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, despite more than three-fourths of Mainer voters saying that schools should be focused on basics over gender, sexuality, and race.
In March 2023, Maine DOE Commissioner Pender Makin told state lawmakers that academic learning — reading, writing and math — is “going to take a backseat” to social-emotional learning and programming on race and gender.
Below is a list of some of the most egregious examples covered by The Maine Wire of left-wing ideology, particularly when it comes to issues related to race and gender, being brought into Maine schools:
Brunswick Junior High Kids Learn Flags for 15 Different Genders and Sexualities
January 2023: Images posted to Facebook by an art teacher at Brunswick Junior High show middle school students learning about 15 different genders and sexualities as part of a “Sexualities & Gender Identities” quiz game posted in the school cafeteria.
September 2023: A flyer advertising a sex therapist’s “Raising Sexually Healthy Children” workshop hosted by the Greely Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) was given out to some 1st and 3rd grade students in MSAD #51.
Greely High School Staff Say ‘Gender Queer’ Should Remain in Library
November 2023: After a Citizen’s Challenge of Educational Media complaint against the book “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe, an MSAD 51 review committee made up of school staff recommended that the book — which contains graphic depictions of sex acts between minors, including a scene of oral sex performed on a strap-on dildo — remain in the district’s school libraries.
April 2024: Falmouth Public Schools adopts a “Transgender and Gender Expansive Students” policy that directs school staff to assist students in changing their “gender identity,” to use a student’s chosen pronouns and name, and to allow students to use restrooms and locker rooms facilities that “closely match their gender identity.”
Maine DOE ‘Welcoming Library’ Picture Book Project Aims to Teach Children About Race, Immigration
October 2024: Maine DOE launches a project aimed at bringing collections of children’s picture books about race, diversity and immigration into all public schools across the state.
October 2024: The principal of a public high school in South Paris forwarded a recruitment email from the Maine Democratic Party to his students seeking to enroll them as volunteers for political canvassing and phone banking on behalf of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign.
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some sick shit going on in southern Maine.
They ought to outlaw displaying rainbow flags in ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
“The raised fist is a long-standing image of mixed meaning…it is a common symbol of socialism, communism anarchism and trade unionism. It can also be used as a salute expressing unity, strength or resistance.”
That about sums up the cultural Marxists in charge of our kids’ indoctrination…oops, I mean education.