There's so much stuff like this, where "equity" was the justification for hiring a friend or someone getting paid to do activist work. This guy we paid $35k to do equity work was a convicted felon for drunk driving too much and the District hired him to offer programs offsite on the weekends!
I think some of that has already gone away - It's not clear to me if they're doing the "equity weeks" this February but it seems like they're not. They've even scaled back some of the crazier affinity group things related to the Beyond Diversity training. I haven't heard about privilege walks for instance since like 2022.
I just think that this is a local issue we can solve on our own (we have elections in a month) and don't need the federal government to come in and smash. We don't need to throw the baby out with the bathwater here.
Yes, I'm not saying the equity stuff was effective or good. I think a lot of it was totally nuts, consider this case:
https://www.foiagras.com/p/district-65-consultant-who-skipped
Read the weird stuff we paid him to do on page 20 of the PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zNnGYJFky1iaJ2mJsv9huf53Pr99JcXo/view
There's so much stuff like this, where "equity" was the justification for hiring a friend or someone getting paid to do activist work. This guy we paid $35k to do equity work was a convicted felon for drunk driving too much and the District hired him to offer programs offsite on the weekends!
I think some of that has already gone away - It's not clear to me if they're doing the "equity weeks" this February but it seems like they're not. They've even scaled back some of the crazier affinity group things related to the Beyond Diversity training. I haven't heard about privilege walks for instance since like 2022.
I just think that this is a local issue we can solve on our own (we have elections in a month) and don't need the federal government to come in and smash. We don't need to throw the baby out with the bathwater here.