A Kansas teacher named Caedran Sullivan is speaking out on mandatory diversity training being forced on school employees who are pushing “repeated white shaming” and “woke ideology” in the classroom and indoctrinating students.

All of this is occurring during a teacher shortage and an intense struggle to recruit new educators.

Sullivan was an English teacher who worked in the Shawnee Mission School District [SMSD] for 15 years. Now that she is exposing the school district and its social agenda, she is being called a “Nazi” and a “fascist” for it.

“I can no longer stay silent about the state of our schools. I will be attacked and threatened, but for the good of our district and the students with whom we are entrusted, I must speak out. This is too important,” Sullivan wrote in an op-ed that was published by The Lion titled, “Kansas public school teacher: Yes, your children are being indoctrinated.”

A Kansas teacher with extensive experience has had enough. In an Op-Ed she touches on today's defining duplicity:

The people who complain the most about bullying and shaming, bully and shame the most. They bully and shame white people, including kids, because of their race. pic.twitter.com/U7V4xnzoGn

— Frank DeScushin (@FrankDeScushin) May 2, 2023

“We are being manipulated and intimidated by a divisive ‘woke’ ideology that is creating a culture of contempt and disrespect,” she wrote.

She blasted SMSD for forcing employees to attend Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) training and workshops that are based on Critical Race Theory. The training also promoted social justice causes in order to “decolonize” the classroom.

“SMSD is fostering a toxic environment and requiring employees to attend Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) training and workshops centered around Critical Race Theory, including Black Lives Matter in the Classroom and Social Justice in the Classroom (using teachers’ ‘white privilege,’ ‘white supremacy’ and ‘de-colonizing our classrooms’ propaganda),” the teacher charged.

“There is repeated white shaming and a preoccupation with white people as the ‘oppressor,’ including staff field trips with a focus on ‘systemic racism.’ The white saviorism and virtue-signaling at DEI meetings is so condescending that many minorities and other staff members have stopped attending,” Sullivan asserted. “Our district is no longer academically focused. We are doing our students a disservice by allowing a biased curriculum to take over. If parents knew what goes on in our schools, the majority would be appalled.”

@pastors4txkids @pastors4OKkids We have a hero teacher in Kansas. I pray that more teachers will step up and protect our children. pic.twitter.com/rSpwJcPsBG

— Conservative53_ (@Conservative53_) May 2, 2023

“At a staff meeting this month, we were told we should refer to students by their preferred names and pronouns during the school day, but hide from the parents the fact that their minor children are transitioning at school. The district conceals the transgender policies from the public and will not release the DEI presentations we are compelled to watch,” she charged.

The teacher also contended that the indoctrination is actively keeping the district from retaining teachers and attracting qualified candidates to educate students. Because of the allegedly leftist-induced shortage, the SMSD has been forced to pony up $3.5 million to out-of-state agencies to recruit and retain more educators.

“We are losing good teachers because of an imposed divisive rhetoric that does not inspire mutual goodwill,” Sullivan charged. “In my school alone, three teacher-coaches left in March and recently, in one day, four more teachers said they are contemplating leaving the profession.”

She was immediately savaged online and in a district board meeting, with one education bureaucrat claiming in a tweet that her op-ed was “full of lies.”

A teacher in SMSD wrote a piece (that I will not promote here) alleging "woke ideology" that she does not define, criticizes anti-racism without acknowledging its opposite, and claims there is a $400,000 CRT curriculum–of which there is no such thing.

Stop lying.

— Tina Ellsworth (@DrTinaEllsworth) April 22, 2023

There are more than five high schools, five middle schools, 34 elementary schools, and six instructional centers that SMSD controls and oversees.

Sullivan is far from alone in her assertions.

“Parents should ‘pull their kids’ from schools that offer ‘destructive’ racial equity curricula that portray whites as privileged oppressors, multiple sources in a Kansas City-area district say,” Heartlander News reported.

Kansas Policy Institute and Sentinel CEO Dave Trabert asserted that SMSD is deliberately pushing divisive propaganda that separates students from the family unit.

“A district that truly wants every student to achieve academic success would not waste time with DEIB and white supremacy indoctrination. But the Shawnee Mission school board members and district leadership shrug off poor outcomes and go all-in on the propaganda. They blithely deny pushing the tenets of Critical Race Theory but pushing gender identity on kindergartners, spending $400,000 on Deep Equity training, and ignoring staff complaints about divisive behavior shows they are devoted to something other than academically preparing students for college and career,” he accused, according to The Sentinel.

Since the pandemic hit, schools across the nation have struggled to fill teaching positions. Many more are leaving the profession than are joining it these days. The reasons for that are legion and reportedly include burnout, stress over lockdowns, and DEI (Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion) training which is forcing teachers to use Marxist precepts such as Critical Race Theory in the instruction of students.

A survey that was conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics found that 44% of public schools are reporting that they have full- or part-time teacher vacancies. That survey was published a year ago in March 2022. It also found that 61% of public schools reporting at least one vacancy cited the pandemic for the job openings. Most of the vacancies were due to resignations, not retirement according to the survey.

Fox News reported, “About 300,000 public school teachers and staff have left the field between February 2020 and May 2022, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey from the National Education Association in February found that 55% of teachers reported that they are thinking about leaving the profession, and 79% of teachers report dissatisfaction with their careers, according to a July American Federation of Teachers survey.”

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