‘Tipping Point’: Arizona Parents Call For Superintendent’s Removal Over Resurfaced Comments On ‘Racial Identity’

Arizona parents are calling for the firing of a superintendent who spoke on racial identity in a resurfaced interview, the parents told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Scottsdale Unites for Educational Integrity (SUEI), a coalition of parents fighting for transparency within the district, protested at the Scottsdale Unified School Board meeting on Tuesday demanding the resignation of Superintendent Scott Menzel who said white people’s “racial identity” is “problematic” in a recently resurfaced interview from 2019, the parents told the DCNF. Menzel’s leadership has led to other initiatives that the parents oppose, such as a transgender policy which helps hide students’ gender transitions, the parents told the DCNF.

“At every turn, SUSD under Menzel’s leadership has worked to suppress information via several methods including denial of public records requests, verbal attacks of parents who question curriculum and updated policies that make it nearly impossible for parents to volunteer or access their child’s classrooms,” Jill Dunican, a Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) parent and member of SUEI, told the DCNF. “Menzel’s recently resurfaced comments by Fox News that ‘meritocracy is a lie’ and that white people have a ‘problematic racial identity’ have been a tipping point in the call for his removal.”