New Jersey bill would require DEI curriculum for homeschoolers

Efforts to standardize indoctrination found one blue state endeavoring to impose DEI on homeschool students, leaving little doubt that leftists are “coming for your kids.”

On the list of all-time greatest backfires, the insistence by teachers’ unions to keep students remote as part of the draconian response to COVID helped expose the extent to which curriculum had been infused with Marxist ideologies.

Now, as considerable headway has been made to strip diversity, equity, and inclusion from public institutions while increasing numbers of families have opted out of government schools, a New Jersey lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring homeschool curriculum to meet all the woke benchmarks of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards.

Saturday, school choice advocate and American Culture Project senior fellow Corey DeAngelis posted to X, “New Jersey Democrat introduced a bill to force all homeschool families to teach DEI. They think they own your kids.”

He continued his thread explaining, “The bill forces parents to use a curriculum aligned with New Jersey Student Learning Standards. Those New Jersey state standards incorporate DEI throughout. They’re coming for your kids.”

The bill forces parents to use a curriculum aligned with New Jersey Student Learning Standards.

Those New Jersey state standards incorporate DEI throughout.

They’re coming for your kids. pic.twitter.com/7u9mxmmo7M

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) September 6, 2025

In June, New Jersey State Assemblyman Sterley Stanley (D) introduced Bill A5825 to supplement Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes by requiring “parents or guardians who intend to homeschool their child to submit annually a letter to the superintendent of the school district in which the child resides, registering the child in a home education program.”

“In addition to the letter, the parent is also to submit a copy of the curriculum that will be used. The curriculum is required to be aligned with the New Jersey Student Learning Standards,” added the bill summary.

As DeAngelis pointed out, those standards included addressing “workplace diversity, equity in career opportunities, and inclusive collaboration skills.”

Further, “Financial literacy components included discussions on economic disparities and equitable access to resources,” as elsewhere in the standards, state resources “explicitly address topics like gender identity, sexual orientation, and cultural diversity to promote inclusivity and reduce bias.”

The standards “address topics like gender identity, sexual orientation, and cultural diversity” pic.twitter.com/aSxndJx4Hf

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) September 6, 2025

Meanwhile, in addition to taking steps to address the pervasiveness of discrimination taking place across the nation, and more specifically in the federal government, with measures tackling DEI, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth released a memo earlier this year directing a department-wide review on the feasibility of new homeschool policies to better serve military families.

“Through these efforts, the Department will uphold the directive to improve the education, well-being, and future success of military-connected students, supporting parents in choosing the best educational options for their children,” wrote Hegseth. “Ensuring that military-connected families receive strong educational support maintains morale and readiness, reinforcing the overall stability and effectiveness of our military communities.”

DeAngelis’s thread was received with outrage, as many expected court battles would follow if the Garden State attempted to enact such a requirement.

Let them try, I don’t think NJ will win that at the federal level. Sue them now

In the meantime, they can’t practically control what parents teach.

— Marigold (@Marafsol1) September 6, 2025

A clear civil rights violation

— livercup (@livercup9) September 6, 2025

It’s this kind of nonsense that is causing parents to homeschool in the first place.

— Elizabeth Burns (@eburns24_burns) September 6, 2025

In. Sane.

— Pam Murray (@PamMurrayCT) September 6, 2025

Leave our kids alone!!!

— mspin65 (@mspin65) September 7, 2025

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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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