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Min New York City’s public school system is serious about equity. So serious that they are removing good educators for refusing to make the new symbol of racial equity: the Wakanda salute from the ‘Black Panther’ movie. This is the latest example of woke virtue-signaling gone wrong and a sinister outcome of the push for equity over equality. The New York Post has reported two separate accounts of women who were let go from their teaching jobs in the New York City public school sys...

Two educators from the Bronx have filed lawsuits against the New York City Department of Education, alleging they were wrongfully terminated and then reinstated at lower levels, each after refusing to make the “Wakanda Forever” salute at superintendent meetings. Rafaela Espinal, a Dominican-American woman, claims in court filings she was abruptly fired from her job as a head of Community School District 12 in the Bronx in August 2018 without any reason given. Karen Ames, a 30-year Departm...

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:33 UTC Karen Ames, a 30-year Department of Education employee, says she was ousted because she is over 40 and Jewish. A veteran Bronx superintendent once praised by Chancellor Richard Carranza for her successes in the classroom claims her career was derailed by his "equity" agenda — forcing her to take a demotion in a desperate bid to preserve her pension, according to a $150 million lawsuit. Karen Ames, a 30-year Department of Education employee, says she was targeted by...

A former New York City educator's $150-million lawsuit against the city's Department of Education says she was fired, in part, for rejecting the "Wakanda Forever" salute during implicit-bias training.

“The agenda of Chancellor Carranza and his senior leadership team was euphemistically touted as an ‘equity platform’ but in reality, it was a platform used to create gender, age, racial and ethnic divisions in the NYC School system,” she contends in her lawsuit. Ames was grilled about her “ethnic background,” chastised by a colleague at a training session when she shared her grandparents’ experience during the Holocaust in Poland, and “admonished” when she declined requests...