Regarding DEI, the powers-that-be in Eanes ISD don’t believe their own bullshit. Not the Eanes School Board. Not outgoing Superintendent Leonard. And most especially not the DEI con$ultant.
How do we know? Because they put Linda Rawlings in charge.
I see your mouth has dropped to the floor.
“Wait!” you ask, “Linda Rawlings, the former principal of the high school during all those years when Race&Racism™️ was allegedly happening??? If they’re right about Race&Racism™️, wouldn’t she be part of the root cause?”
Yes.
“Linda Rawlings, the person involved in choosing some of the very Eanes curriculum that the DEI guy is currently ‘decolonizing’???”
Yes.
“Linda Rawlings, the woman who said, in essence, ‘well, gosh golly gee, I just had no idea that bad Race&Racism™️ things were happening in Eanes this whole time’?”
Yes.
“Linda Rawlings, the woman who wanted someone to lecture the district about ‘implicit bias’—even when ‘implicit bias’ is known to be a discredited baloney concept?”
Yes.
“Linda Rawlings, the one who let the DEI huckster upsell the district from an afternoon of inservice to a multi-year, no-end-in-sight contract that will last longer than the Energizer Bunny?”
Yes.
“Linda Rawlings, the one who recommended hiring the DEI guy, even though the DEI guy can provide NO EVIDENCE that his $$$ program improves district culture?”
Yes.
“Well, surely, people are aware of how ridiculous this is! If they believed Eanes truly had a Race&Racism™️ problem, they wouldn’t put the ground-zero employee—the former high-school principal, for Pete’s sake—in charge of their effort to solve it!”
Yes, yes, they would. Yes, they did.
They even let her be in charge of the new effort to infect the district with a mind-virus curriculum platform to “embed” the concepts of DEI at every level of the district.
Crazy Eanes School Board logic:
Premise 1: Eanes has structural problems with racism and should embed DEI in every class.
Premise 2: Linda Rawlings is a long-time fixture in the problem and has touched almost every part of the district.
Conclusion: Hire Linda Rawlings as Senior Advisor of all things DEI.
You can’t get to that batty conclusion—that Linda Rawlings should be in charge of the solution—if you truly believe Premise 1 & 2.
That’s another reason you know this whole Eanes DEI enterprise is a sham. #FiduciaryFail
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If you like lists, check out this post about Linda Rawlings. Same ideas, more elaboration.