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He’d ‘Fire Us All If He Could So That He Could Replace Us All With People Of Color’: Teacher At Posh NJ School Quits Over Critical Race Theory Agenda

Hank Berrien
He’d ‘Fire Us All If He Could So That He Could Replace Us All With People Of Color’: Teacher At Posh NJ School Quits Over Critical Race Theory Agenda
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A much-praised English teacher at a posh private school in New Jersey quit her job over the school’s apparent adoption of critical race theory, claiming that the head of the school twice told faculty he “would fire us all if he could so that he could replace us all with people of color.”

Dana Stangel-Plowe, who had graduated from Cornell University and became a lawyer before she started her teaching career, taught at the $52,000-per-year Dwight-Englewood School in Bergen County. She accused the school of fostering a “hostile culture of conformity and fear” in her resignation letter.

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