A Colorado public school teacher has come under fire after emails showed he wanted to “burn things down” that don’t represent equity or diversity.
Emails obtained by Fox News Digital have shed light on concerns and challenges faced by a teacher named Casey Menninger, who worked as a “diversity teacher” in the Jefferson County Public School District in Colorado. Menninger’s role involved developing a curriculum focused on equity and inclusion, which was intended for use by other teachers.
In these emails, Menninger expressed his intentions to present topics that were centered around “terrible things white people did.
“I will have a quick presentation for 8th grade in the next couple weeks … I just want them to work on some of the communication skills and understand some terrible things White people did,” he said in an email last year.
“The meetings are very difficult,” he said in an email from 2021. “I am trying to impact change in a positive way, but it is very hard to not want to burn things down that I don’t find equitable.”
Additionally, the emails revealed that Menninger’s fellow teachers disagreed with his desired curriculum and had expressed negative sentiments about his approach.
“I am learning a lot of restraint. I don’t think anyone else on the team has that equity lens, so it is challenging to impact change where they don’t see a need. I am also trying to learn how to respond to emotional outbursts from adults. It is difficult. I don’t like it.”
Menninger also wrote in an email that his fellow teachers have disagreed with his desired curriculum, and have “talked trash” about him multiple times.
These revealed emails shed light on the fact that public schools are increasingly more likely to prioritize diversity and equity curricula over actual educational topics that children need to learn. States like Florida, for example, are taking action by enacting legislation that prevents schools from teaching students that one race is more “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive” than the other.
