Scottsdale Unified School District’s Superintendent Scott Menzel has been named the recipient of the United States Parents Involved in Education Millstone of the Month Award for December.
The nonprofit nationwide coalition, United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE), gives Millstone of the Month awards to the person or persons who have committed the most egregious acts against children in government schools.
“He’s the poster child for so-called educators who push diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) agendas and LGBTQ+ propaganda, keep parents in the dark, and find new and alarming ways to corrupt children,” says Sheri Few, founder and president of USPIE. “That’s why we are giving him our Millstone of the Month Award, an unenviable ‘honor.’
“Menzel has exhibited his radical views in several ways,” Few says. “Last year, Fox News digital revealed that during an unearthed interview, he blasted the White race and said they should feel ‘really, really uncomfortable.’”
In 2023, a group of Arizona legislators called on the Scottsdale School District Governing Board to consider taking action against Menzel after “hateful comments” he made were unearthed. The lawmakers penned an open letter to members of the Governing Board condemning Menzel for “offensive and hateful comments he made in a 2019 interview in which he claimed “white identity” is “problematic.”
An Arizona grassroots parents group, Scottsdale Unites for Educational Integrity, has exposed LGBTQ+ texts in several Scottsdale schools as well as abundant evidence that the school system supports a radical gender agenda.
“Under Menzel’s leadership, Scottsdale Unified administration has allowed teachers to survey students about their pronouns,” the group says. “The teachers also inquired whether the child desired for the teacher to hide the information from their parents.”
Arizona’s Parents’ Bill of Rights prohibits school counselors and teachers from withholding information from parents that a child tells them about their physical, emotional, or mental health.
Arizona Unites also reported that “Scottsdale Unified tells parents that its Unitown Club teaches ‘leadership’ skills, yet documents show that the club leaders are secretly pushing sexual orientation and gender identity lessons on innocent children. SUSD is installing the same club in middle schools, under the name ‘Minitown.’”
SUSD staff told a parent that students sleep in cabins that align with their imagined gender at the Unitown overnight camp.
A teacher revealed that a windowless storage closet at SUSD’s Mohave Middle School was decorated with flags that promote transgenderism and sexual orientation choices to 11-to-13-year-old children, all of whom are being encouraged to have confidential conversations with Scottsdale Unified employees.
“For all these reasons, USPIE feels that there is not a more deserving person than Scott Menzel for this month’s Millstone,” Few says.
USPIE says it hopes “to create a culture where parents, empowered with the authority to choose what and how their children learn, are the undisputed primary educators of their children, where local schools operate in support of families, and where education is unencumbered by federal mandates.”
