New York Asst. Superintendent 'Covertly' Pushing DEI Agenda Within School District

New York Assistant Superintendent ‘Covertly’ Pushing DEI Agenda Within School District; ‘Politics’ is ‘My Job Now’ … Claims His ‘Sexual Identity’ is Important to Make ‘Connections with Kids’; Reveals ‘Explosion’ of Trans Students in Wake of COVID PandemicShow more

• Dave Casamento, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, East Meadow School District: “Here's the thing with DEI [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] work -- if you push too hard doing the work and you get this pushback, it will be decades before you can do the work again. So, it needs to be incremental.”
• Casamento: “Every district [in Nassau County] is doing it [DEI] covertly. Except for the black population.”
• Casamento: “They [parents] honestly believe that systemic racism does not exist. They don’t understand why we have to talk about LGBTQ issues. Or have books that have LGBTQ themes in them.”
• Casamento: “Politics is basically my job now. I am political in every conversation I have. I never thought I’d be at this point in my life. I am, and it is what it is. If you can do the game, you can do the good work.”
• Casamento: “My sexual identity was always a part of my work because I believe in making connections with kids.”
• Casamento: “So, the conservative movement will say -- and I got to tell you, I am not opposed to this question: ‘Why do we need to sexualize kids at a young age?’ After the pandemic, we had an explosion of trans kids, and I’m like, ‘How could this be?’”

[NEW YORK – Mar. 8, 2023] Project Veritas released a new video today exposing a senior school administrator in Long Island, Dave Casamento, who admits to secretly indoctrinating young students with racial and gender politics.

The Assistant Superintendent of the East Meadow School District is recorded saying that for educators to get away with indoctrination, certain topics must be taught without the knowledge of parents.

“Here's the thing with DEI [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] work -- if you push too hard doing the work and you get this pushback, it will be decades before you can do the work again. So, it needs to be incremental,” Casamento said.

“Every district [in Nassau County] is doing it [DEI] covertly. Except for the black population,” he said.

“They [parents] honestly believe that systemic racism does not exist. They don’t understand why we have to talk about LGBTQ issues. Or have books that have LGBTQ themes in them.”

Casamento recognized that he is overtly political, even at work. But he showed concern for the possibility that his secret political intentions could be recorded and made public.

“Politics is basically my job now. I am political in every conversation I have. I never thought I’d be at this point in my life. I am, and it is what it is. If you can do the game, you can do the good work,” he said.

“I actually thought of running a [educational] session but then there’s this political side -- that someone could be recording inside the room -- and politically that could be suicide.”

The administrator shared his beliefs when it came to sexual education in school.

“My sexual identity was always a part of my work because I believe in making connections with kids,” Casamento said.

“So, the conservative movement will say -- and I got to tell you, I am not opposed to this question: ‘Why do we need to sexualize kids at a young age?’ After the pandemic, we had an explosion of trans kids, and I’m like, ‘How could this be?’”

Casamento said he tries to weed out potential conservative candidates who apply for a teaching position in his district.

“I think I said this before, but people don’t give up power, you have to take it from them…You stop hiring those types of people [conservatives]…We created a whole rubric for hiring in light of DEI,” he said.

“It’s all secret. So, I would rank them [conservatives] so low [in their interview process] that their score couldn’t possibly raise them up to the level of moving on to the cabinet.”