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A New York City assistant principal boasted about deliberately discriminating against new hires based on their political views in undercover video released by Project Veritas on Tuesday.
In Part 3 of Veritas’ “Secret Curriculum” series, Todd Soper, who works as an Assistant Principal for the New York City Department of Education managing charter schools for grades K-4, was recorded discussing how he rejects conservative hires because of their beliefs.
Veritas Journalist: What would you do though, as a principal, if you knew there was a conservative applying? Would you hire such a person?
Soper: No…We have very specific questions, and ultimately our Diversity-Equity-Inclusion question, our DEI question is — it’s very telling if somebody has done a lot of work within themself, within the profession.
Veritas Journalist: But even conservative, like even–
Soper: Well, and it comes out — if people don’t answer that question right, they are just an automatic not hire.
As an example, Soper said any prospective hire who judges people based on character and not skin color is rejected for not embracing “diversity.”
“If they [candidates] say that diversity is about — if they say something that lends itself to be colorblind, which could happen, like, ‘Oh, it’s like, you know, like everyone is equal.’ Those things that are well intentioned statements, but they’re missing the depth of understanding of how the intersections of our identity live out in the world. So, that person wouldn’t get hired,” Soper explained.
In another example, Soper explained how one teacher was driven out of teaching at his particular school district for refusing to push Black Lives Matter propaganda and refusing to acknowledge students based on the “color of their skin.”
“So, there’s this one teacher who almost refused to talk about Juneteenth a few years ago, and didn’t want to teach a lesson,” Soper said. “Like, in addition to their neurodiversity and their special needs, like our students’ lives matter based on the color of their skin, and how that intertwines into the context of the world. So, if you’re not willing to embrace fully that aspect of our students — and that means talking openly about race and talking about injustices in the world, then I don’t know if you’re going to be able to fully fulfill your [teacher] responsibilities.”
Soper added the teacher “would’ve probably been fired eventually just based off of mindset.”
Soper also described how he pushes gender ideology onto K-4 students at his schools.
“We have always and will continue to embrace diversity on all levels. So, the same way we embrace identities that are based off of ethnicity, skin tone and gender, we also embrace orientation,” Soper said.
“Like for kindergarten, for Pride month, we got — every kid had a mirror and we talked about — a read aloud about an animal, or about a boy that said he wanted to be a mermaid. It’s a way to start, like, ‘You should be whoever you feel like you should be.’ That was kind of the message of [the] read aloud,” he said.
“It’s delicate, right? So, in kindergarten and first grade, they [students] are five and six [years old] — but I think we start with the umbrella theme of, ‘Embrace who you are. You have to love who you are, and each part of you is beautiful, whatever you feel.’ As kids get older and the idea of gender becomes more salient, which happens more towards fourth grade…the conversations deepen as the kids get older.”
Project Veritas’ ongoing Secret Curriculum series has so far exposed two other educators bragging about injecting a far-left radical agenda in their schools and taking pains to ensure conservatives are barred from educating children.
Catch up on Project Veritas’ Secret Curriculum series:
Part 2: NYC Private School Employee Brags Of ‘Sneaking’ Liberal Agenda Into Classrooms