An All-Girls Private School in South Carolina Cancels STEM Event Because of DEI Ban

Ashley-Hall private school in Charleston, SC has celebrated its annual "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day" event - but now that's gone thanks to Trump. Donald Trump's federal ban on "DEI" has caused the school's partnership with the Greater Charleston Federal Executive Association, to be discarded as all federal agencies are subject to the executive order terminating DEI initiatives.

Ashley Hall created the event to give girls an opportunity to explore engineering and other STEM-related careers in which women typically are underrepresented, says the school's Headmaster. Weston said she and the school's faculty members were surprised and disappointed to learn that the Federal Executive Association pulled the plug on the partnership. School officials had not considered that their relationship with federal agencies affected by executive orders could be impacted.

"The students really enjoy it," Weston said. "In general, we have a good number of our own alums who go into (STEM careers), and of course, we want to continue this for our girls to see that as a possibility, if that's where their interest lies."

46% of Charleston voters voted for Trump in the 2024 election.

It's quite upsetting to see how many people didn't care about the terrible policies Trump promised to enact because they simply didn't think that they would be personally affected.