How the radical DEI ideology is imposed on students in a Virginia school district | Eastern NC Now

This time it is not notorious far left Fairfax County.  It is Albemarle County in the Charlottesville metropolitan area, and it is even worse than Fairfax in imposition of the far left, Marxist and racist, DEI ideology upon students.  A recent article in The Federalist tells the story.

Albemarle County pushes students to make a "personal commitment" to the DEI ideology as a "core competency".  It reviews teachers lesson plans to insure they are pushing "anti-racism" which is an Orwellian term for promoting racism against white people.  It has an "equity" grading system which guarantees at least 50% credit for an incomplete assignment.  Its curriculum is steeped in DEI and "anti-rascism"

Of the eight objectives in school board policy to instill in students, two are overtly political; "anti-racism" and "social justice and inclusion".  A school board member publicly compared a meeting to Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA to a Ku Klux Klan rally, and another school board member jumped to her defense on that accusation.

Albemarle County is the location of Thomas Jefferson's Montecello, so it is particularly obscene to see this far left political indoctrination of students going on there.  Jefferson was a champion of freedom of speech. The student population subjected to this racist DEI agenda is majority white.

The US State department has designated DEI as a violation of human rights.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/15/exclusive-virginia-school-district-encourages-student-commitment-to-dei-as-major-achievement-metric/

Meanwhile, in Indiana, a school counsellor who had been fired for publicly objecting to a school board policy to socially transition children without telling their parents, has received a settlement of $200,000.  The case led the state legislature to require parental notification.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/school-agrees-pay-counselor-fired-objecting-transgender-policy/

We in Beaufort County can be thankful that while we have had four solid conservatives on our school board, its policies have been amended to prohibit DEI, CRT, and radical gender theory from our curriculum.  One wonders how long that will last now that a cabal of activist teachers have managed to replace two of those conservatives with two members of the NCAE teachers union.