Kantor: DEI’s gotta go
Manchester, NH April 30, 2025 – Crissy Kantor is furious.
After revelations that eighth grade students at McLaughlin Middle School were given a so-called “self-reflection” worksheet featuring a radical “Wheel of Power and Privilege” — a document designed to divide children by skin color, gender identity, and perceived privilege — Kantor called the incident “a disgrace” and vowed to end all DEI programming in Manchester’s public schools if elected mayor. Said Kantor:
“This wasn’t a mistake — it was a deliberate effort to introduce identity politics into the classroom, using teacher training materials that never should’ve existed in the first place. What business does any teacher have telling a 13-year-old that they have too much ‘privilege’ because of their skin color or body type? The fact that this kind of poison is being peddled to our kids — under the guise of Holocaust education no less — makes me sick.”
Kantor said it’s not enough to blame the teacher. Responsibility starts at the top — and that means Mayor Jay Ruais, who chairs the Manchester School Board.
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District officials admitted the material used was never intended for students, claiming it was for teacher training material that shouldn’t have been in the classroom. But Kantor said that raises the obvious question: “Why is Manchester training teachers in this divisive, Marxist garbage to begin with?” She continued:
“Why are teachers being taught to see their students as privileged or oppressed based on race or gender? Why is our School Superintendent Jen Chmiel lying to us and saying they are striving to be consistent with Executive Order language like she did as recently as the April 15th [meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen,”
Kantor asked, referencing Chimel’s responses to her questions about DEI programs and personnel.
“The scandal isn’t just that this made it into a classroom — it’s that this is how Manchester is training its staff under the supervision of a lying
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Superintendent. The mayor ought to be demanding a full accounting of what’s being taught behind closed doors, and putting an immediate stop to it. Instead, he’s missing in action.”
Kantor concluded by saying she will not allow another penny of taxpayer money to fund DEI initiatives in Manchester if she is elected mayor.
“As mayor, I will cut every DEI position and cancel every DEI contract. I will hold the school superintendent accountable. We will stop seeing our taxpayer
dollars wasted on dividing people by race, gender, and ideology. Our schools will get back to basics — reading, writing, math, and truth in history — and leave the radical politics behind. Jay Ruais had his chance. Now it’s time for real leadership.”
Kantor issued her statement following stories published in the Union Leader and the Girard at Large Facebook page detailing the incident at McLaughlin Middle School and the district’s response to it.
Click here for the Union Leader story.
Click here for the Girard at Large Facebook post.
