Kaylee Gain’s school pushed DEI over safety, has ‘enormous culpability’ in teen’s vicious beating: Mo. AG
The Missouri high school near where teen Kaylee Gain was horrifically injured last week had an “enormous amount of culpability” in the incident because it promoted diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives over student safety, the state’s Republican attorney general claimed.
“I think the school has an enormous amount of culpability. Look at their statement; there’s no moral clarity there. They don’t mention the victim once,” AG Andrew Bailey told Newsmax’s “National Report” of the Hazelwood School District.
Kaylee Gain, 16, was just a few blocks from Hazelwood East High School when she and another girl got into a physical fight on March 8.
The caught-on-camera brawl ended with Gain being pinned down and having her head slammed into the pavement multiple times, resulting in brain bleeding and a serious skull fracture.
As of Friday afternoon, she was still hospitalized in critical condition.
In the wake of the incident, the district posted a brief statement on Facebook.
“It is a tragedy anytime children are hurt. Bullying and fighting in the community is an issue for which we all need to take ownership and work towards a resolution for the sake of our children,” the note read.
The district also offered “sincerest condolences to everyone involved.”
Hazelwood East, Bailey argued, was partly to blame for Gain’s condition because it promoted “radical DEI programs…in place of school safety.”
“In August of 2021, it was announced that the school was requiring the uniformed police officers who were in the schools to take the school district’s DEI training and the police agencies refused. They declined to do so. So, the schools booted them off campus,” Bailey alleged.
“In other words, [the school] are more in favor of racial divisiveness than in having school resource officers on their campuses,” Bailey insisted.
“So, what role did this radical divisive DEI indoctrination program play in preventing a police officer from being present and detecting this and/or from causing the racial divisiveness that may have motivated this fight?” he added.
Bailey also went on the record that the other girl involved in the fight could face upgraded, “first degree assault” charges — despite the fact that she is only 15 years old.
“If you watch the video, let’s keep in mind this occurs at 2:30 p.m. on a Friday in broad daylight in a public street just a few feet from the school where these teens are students, and there’s multiple teens involved,” he noted.
“But, if you drill down and you watch the actual assault itself, you see an attacker who repeatedly bludgeons the victim’s head against the hard pavement, clearly intending to inflict serious physical injury,” Bailey continued.
“The law is clear on this point: the court has to hold a certification hearing on a first-degree assault to determine whether or not this situation is better dealt with in adult court,” he suggested.
Determining the cause of the fight will be “critical,” Bailey told Newsmax.
The other teens involved — who could be seen looking on in shock while the fight unfolded — should also be dealt with in juvenile court, he said.
The Hazelwood School District did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment on Bailey’s statements.
Hazelwood East High school serves over 1,200 students — about 98% of whom identify as minorities, according to the US News & World Report.
