‘It’s about time’: Education Department cuts $1 billion in ‘mental health’ grants used to advance DEI
Shaming kids who are white and telling kindergarten through third-grade children they may be a boy or a girl, and other forms of sexualization of young children, are likely at the root of the mental health issues children are facing.
The U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration has cut $1 billion worth of “mental health” grants that were being used to advance diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ideology instead of mental health.
Some of the grants that advanced “diversity goals” explicitly sought “non-white” counselors, according to The Federalist.
It’s about time they pulled the plug. It’s ironic that the federal government thinks it needs to provide a billion dollars for a ‘mental health crisis’ they’ve induced by force-feeding kids woke and Marxist propaganda.
Shaming kids who are white and telling kindergarten through third-grade children they may be a boy or a girl, and other forms of sexualization of young children, are likely at the root of the mental health issues children are facing.
“These grants are intended to improve American students’ mental health by funding additional mental health professionals in schools and on campuses,” Madi Biedermann, deputy assistant secretary for communications at the Education Department, told The Federalist.
“Instead, under the deeply flawed priorities of the Biden Administration, grant recipients used the funding to implement race-based actions like recruiting quotas in ways that have nothing to do with mental health and could hurt the very students the grants are supposed to help.”
One grant advanced the idea that “training counselor educators have the responsibility to prepare the next generation of counselors to recognize and challenge systemic injustices, antiracism, and the pervasiveness of white supremacy to ethically support diverse communities.”
Another grant funded “social Justice learning objectives that assessed personal goals for anti-racist pedagogy practice, deconstructed the role personal identity and positionality plays in education, examined the influences of racism and white privilege in education practice, developed the skills for mindful facilitation and conversational ‘brave spaces,’ and facilitated conversations on best practices in anti-racist pedagogy.”
Certain training programs were focused on teaching faculty and staff to “interact effectively with the wide range of young people and families they encounter in their work, in areas such as diversity, equity, and inclusion, institutionalized racism, examination biases, attitudes, values, and beliefs related to race/ethnicity and other differences, and culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy and other services.”
Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Rufo posted other grant documents on social media, showing initiatives seeking “greater than 50%” of providers who “are of diverse backgrounds,” selecting for “race/ ethnicity, disability, or LGBTQ+.”
If, in fact, there is a mental health crisis, it may be fabricated to extort more taxpayer money to provide more propaganda, which is exactly what we’ve seen exposed here. We’re glad the Education Department under Secretary Linda McMahon is trying to clean things up, but we still urge parents to get their children out of the public schools. It’s the only way to guarantee that they won’t be indoctrinated by rogue ‘educators.’
USPIE aspires to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children; where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates.
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