A Manhattan private school administrator was captured in an undercover video complaining about “horrible” white students who have been pushing back against the leftist ideology she has been using her position to promote.
Jennifer “Ginn” Norris, the director of student activities at the Trinity School, was filmed by undercover news organization Project Veritas discussing how she and like-minded teachers were turning the $60,000-a-year Upper West Side school into a place “where conservatives would not feel comfortable.”
“There’s always groups of teachers who want to do these [activist] things but the administration just wouldn’t let us,” Norris told the undercover journalist posing as a sympathizer. “So, we’ve been just sneaking things in [through] the cracks.”
With a new, more progressive administration in place, Norris said, she no longer “felt like a double agent” and can even use her work hours to advance her political ideology.
“I don’t hide how I feel, but I can’t pretend I’m [not] promoting an agenda even though I clearly am with all the stuff I’m doing,” she said in the clip.
In her role, Norris has the opportunity to bring in guest speakers twice a week. She said that while she allowed students to vote on which speaker would come to campus, she made sure to not put any Republican or conservative voice “on the plate” for them to consider.
“So, you guys wouldn’t let Republican perspectives on campus?” the undercover journalist asked.
“I won’t,” Norris replied.
“I’m in charge as far as [the administration] are concerned,” she added. “So, if they want to [bring Republican speakers], then somebody else has to do it. Because—not on my watch, I guess.”
In another exchange, Norris told the journalist that students at her school are encouraged to attend left-wing demonstrations, particularly those that are anti-Trump, anti-gun, and pro-abortion.
“They went to the women’s rights marches after Trump. They went to all the gun ones, the March For Our Lives,” Norris said, noting that students still have to serve detention for missing classes, but teachers will “talk about social justice” with them during those hours.
By Bill Pan
