The school year has begun in Fairbanks and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee is in full swing. A standing committee of the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board, it advises on matters relating to race, sexual orientation, and other social issues as part of the liberal agenda.
DEI is a form of reinforcing various self-selected identities, and critics say it breeds hatred and racial division.
Read what Sen. JD Vance had to say about DEI’s harmful agenda at this Senate link.
This year, two of the three parent representatives on the committee are also, in a nod to nepotism, spouses of school board members.
With roughly 12,000 students in the school districts, the spouses of School Board members Bobby Burgess (Kristen Schupp) and Meredith Maple (Kel Gitter) are the parent representatives on the DEI Committee.
At the group’s first meeting of the school year, Aug. 21, the committee breezed through the agenda at the school district offices.
The committee then adjourned and several committee members gathered at the offices of the Queer Collective.
Queer Collective is a foundation-funded organization that organizes events for the community. The director of the Queer Collective is also a member of the DEI committee.
Some of the Queer Collective projects it advertises on its website are:
Fairbanks Queer Youth Council
∙GSA Network Building & Support
∙Youth Leadership & Mentorship
∙Peer Education
& Free Fun Sober Youth Events for Queer Joy!
○ Quarterly free queer legal clinic & legal fund
○ Reoccurring Free Family-Friendly Events
○ Volunteer Outreach
○ Queer Winter Gatherings
○ Annual PRIDE Events
∙Gender Euphoria Party
∙Rainbow Picnic
∙Camp Queer
The DEI Committee trip to Queer Collective was not on the agenda, nor was it noticed on the agenda or in meeting materials.
The meeting at the Queer Collective was after the official meeting adjourned. Essentially, the group adjourned and then met at another location the public was not made aware of. According to witnesses, the attendees included April Scott, Kristen Schuppe, Erin Morotti, Kel Gitter, and Rinam Midelstat among others. These are all members of the DEI committee, and are clearly beyond the “three” allowed by the open meetings act. Since this is an official committee of the elected government of the school district, it is almost certainly subject to the Open Meetings Act. AS 44.62.310-.312.
If the meeting had been on the agenda and properly noticed, and if the committee meeting had been recessed and reconvened back on the record, and if a record of discussions by the clerk had been taken, this meeting could have been done legitimately.
One member who went to the meeting was aware of the Open Meetings Act, but thought it was OK because the Superintendent, Luke Minert, knew about the meeting after the meeting.
If that is the standard for the Open Meetings Act, then it’s been misunderstood for years. According to state statute, “governmental body” means an assembly, council, board commission, committee, or other similar body of a public entity with the authority to establish policies or make decisions for the public entity or with the authority to advise or make recommendations to the public entity.
The DEI committee is, indeed, an advisory committee to the FNSB school board, which makes policy for the school district. While there are carve outs of act for attending professional meetings, consideration of personnel matters, and legal matters, a private and non-publicly noticed trip to the Queer Collective does not meet that criteria.
Since there are no published notes of the meeting at the Queer Collective, it is unknown what decisions, if any, were made.
Maybe they should be fined or held accountable?
These people are mentally ill.
They aren’t mentally ill, they are morally repugnant.
As companies are dropping DEI didn’t earn it Alaska is still behind the times.
20 million draft notices should reverse this trend of freaks. Nothing a big war won’t cure. Ungrateful, lazy, perverts.
Does DEI include crimes against children, by adults, such as molestation, touching, rubbing, manipulation, and other acts of sexual perversion? This sounds like a Committee to bring otherwise illegal acts into the mainstream for radical adult pleasure. This is a dangerous path, especially for the kids. Kristen Shuppe, a massage therapist who is married to a Fairbanks school board member, Bobbie Burgess, seems to have no compunction about having her photo in the local newspaper as she “massages” a doll, simulating a very young child. And her husband sits on the school board, where his civic duty is to initiate policy to protect children in the public schools. These are highly perverted, sick people. And now, Fairbanks has elected them. Our neighbors up in Fairbanks are being swung as fools in their local elections. For the children’s sake, get rid of them.
Clear violation of open meetings act. There should have been public notice for something like ten business days, minutes recorded and made available to the public, there is also something about no discussion about advisory topics outside do that official meeting. The superintendent is also held to the same statute.
Queer collective??? You mean freaks? Ones who don’t understand basic biology? I’m so over this demonic mess. These people need to be locked up for being dangers to children. Why are we not concentrating on education ONLY? Because these immoral people are stupid. Period!
Public education is child abuse.
Daisy, “I’m so over this demonic mess.” Doesn’t sound like you are.
Might be worth asking Governor D. to withold revenue sharing until the perverted child-grooming, child mutilating parasite bast… oops! are run out of town… okay, just fired and permanently debarred from public-sector employment.
What a bunch of Total morphidites and psychopaths , Did we recently have a jail break at an insane asylum or are all these whackos coming across the southern Border.
Mexico wouldn’t tolerate this they would put a round in their heads and toss them in a ditch.
So where is the Ethics commitee? Over and over, again and again, these people absolutely insist that they aren”t doing any of these things, especially to kids, and then they just blatantly do the sick things they just denied. To be a leftist is to be a liar.
Readers might like to know that the Fairbanks Queer Collective held an open house to showcase their new space on August 21, 5:00-8:00PM. Visitors from the DEI Committee were among dozens of community members who attended the event. The event was an open house—a party celebrating the new space—and was not a meeting subject to the Open Meetings Act.
Another reason parents are home schooling their children in record numbers. We live in a state that perennially jockies for being dead last in national test scores. That alone should be the massive problem that must be resolved. But now parents are confronted with various ‘woke’ ideologies that school officials are terrified not to embrace. It seems that homeschooling has become the sole ‘life raft’ that parents feel they can grab onto in their desperate effort to shield their children from cultural chaos. Is it possible that the ‘last frontier’ will be ruined by all this?
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They even have their own diseases! How cool is that?
Does anyone besides me feel a disaster of biblical proportions bearing down on us?.? This insanity can’t continue. We are the laughing stock of the world. Most cultures ie muslims can’t stand any of this. Hispanics generally can’t stand this crap so that leaves who .??
What in the entire f#%%^^^ is happening on this article thread?
This has to be a ‘@Punked’ episode.
I have to believe this is satire at its highest level.
Especially on this Republican Blog.
Because Republicans historically do not believe in government in our house or family.
So why then, would a Republican based forum with Republican based trolls switch their inherent core values and beliefs to execute others personal and individual rights by their hypocritically clearly demonstrated by their knee jerk reaction and reverting back to a regulated government meeting practice?
Oh yeah, because government is the weapon.
And from a first person perspective, a girl that grew up on a trapping cabin, homeschooled – I was never approached or tainted by a queer.
The only person that violated my childhood was my cousin, who my parents rightfully trusted.
He had his way with me and I had nowhere to go and no one to call.
There were no phones.
It was winter.
My brother was younger than me and he and I locked eyes as my cousin was walking me up the ladder to the loft of our cabin.
So do not tell me that people and families are reverting to homeschooling to protect their children from public school.
Please do not tell me that home schooling will protect children from queer’s.
And Good f’mmg goodness, gay does not equal child molestor – and gay does not mean they are recruiting and converting!!
That paranoia comes from the churches that sent their child molestor preachers to indigenous areas because polite society extradited them.
These child molestors were told to convert us.
And for the record Michelle OBama saying the President job is a black job is disrespectful.
This country is a melting pot of human culture – it is not a black job or a white job.
It is not a woman’s job or a man’s job.
It is a leaders job.
It was a joke, a jab at Trump’s previous statement.
Was Simone Biles joking also? She loves her “Black job’
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Good one, Randall.
The Fairbanks school board guy sounds like he needs psychiatric help. Maybe his wife too.
Wowza this “article” and the insipid comments to follow are such a grotesque display of stupidity and moral bankruptcy.
Queer kids kill themselves in droves – they’re bullied to death by ignorant obsessive adults like the ones writing and commenting here. Than the lord that there are adults willing to step between you and your victims. All this from people who identify as Christians…but ya know how that identifying business goes….you shall know a vine by its fruit and all that.
I’m sad for your children and theirs. You’re shameful people to have come from I hope they do better. I think they will. I think probably every commenter here has a childhood grandchild who sees right through this ignorance and will break free.
What was the solitary commandment after the new covenant again? A preamble about not judging and then one rule, love each other.
April, it is your comment that displays naivety and moral bankruptcy.
Queer kids are just kids who have been led down a horrible pathway by a sick society. The cultural revolution going on in the west is leaving disillusioned Nihilistic children to their doom and you have the nerve to blame those who warn against the danger. It is not because these kids are being bullied that they are suicidal, but because they are disposable pawns to the ever grinding machinations of the hard core leftists.
As for Christians, judging a vine by its fruit means you can tell whether something be good or bad by the results. What hath the sexual revolution, including queering of children as you mention, wrought? What are the fruits of suicidal queer children compared to a traditional nuclear family? Judge that vine by its fruit.
There is no solitary commandment after the new covenant. The most important commandment is to love God with all your heart and love your neighbor. It certainly is not loving to encourage children down a path of heartache and ultimate destruction.
Finally, “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you,” has nothing whatsoever to do with your argument and, in point of fact, only strengthens mine.
Actually, it is a little more straightforward than that:
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Therefore by their fruits shall ye know them.”
Straight. Forward.
No one can argue with that!
It’s you Democrat nutjob adults, April, that are promoting the bankruptcy of our youth. Drag shows, LGBTQ ‘how to” manuals in libraries, forced DEI on youth, hormone injections, celebration of queers, all of the symbols to promote homosexuality and gender dystopia. You Democrats have ruined our young people.
We are going to fight you, for the sake of the children.
Always a bad idea for people who don’t understand scripture to try to use it.
But since you want to dance, Leviticus calls sodomy an abomination. One of the very few things in scripture to get that label.
You really don’t want to try to dance this particular dance, child. You’re no good at it
If “queer kids” are killing themselves in droves (a claim I sincerely doubt), two things come to mind.
-somewhere inside they realize they are misfiring. They things they think they want aren’t normal.
-if your drama Queen assertion is true, it sounds like it will quickly become a self correcting problem.
April Smith is a conservative candidate running for Fairbanks School Board. Please vote for her.
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The “April” above is a Democrat troll, probably a man. Woman don’t typically say “wowza” in their lexicon.
Thank God and the fighting men and women for free speech.
@North – I love your scripture and reference to roots, trees, vines, and fruit.
What we know about scripture is that it is referencing a season – and seasons are not defined by a harvesting year.
And trees were not meant to be so steadfast to last an eternal biblical application.
Or roots, soil, air, and certainly above all – not mankind.
The fruits of humankind is love.
Kindness.
Being teachable.
Listening.
There will be more chapters of the Bible that generations beyond us read.
And everyone will be a character and typecast into this evolutionary diary of Gods will.
We are not interpreters of His will.
We just were created to live freely – but within a framework of love, kindness, humility, seeking to understand and the ability to forgive.
If He had any other rules, why did He not stop the pain?
My simple point is – don’t execute pain on others where God did not halt on you.
Virtue. Grace. Mercy. Lovingkindness.
We are to emulate these to the best of our God given ability.
Jesus found necessity in cracking a whip and flipping a table in certain circumstances. It is recognized that his prescription for self-government requires that only under his guidance, with continual repentance and seeking of forgiveness for our own sins, always seeking him with all our heart, and with his finger upon us that should we find ourselves doing the same.
May the holy spirit continue to flow through you Trudy. Thanks for commenting here.
Well stated, Trudy. Well stated.
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