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A bill that would prohibit state departments from requiring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training (DEI) similar to Florida’s “Stop WOKE” legislation would be bad for Montana students and could lead to litigation, as it did in Florida, opponents said in a hearing.
The bill would forbid employers from requiring trainings or other activities that “compel the individual to believe” a list of concepts related to race, class and privilege.
In the fall of 2017, then Hot Springs High School senior Stormy Cox wrote of her home state: “In my heart I would love to stay in Wyoming … The majority of my family lives in Wyoming. It’s hard to leave all of them behind and be on my own. If I could stay in Wyoming and still pursue my dreams I would.”
Her sentiments were collected as part of a project that I and Felicity Barringer, Writer In Residence at the Bill Lane Center for the American West, undertook. The goal was to understand young people’s attitudes about a future in their hometowns and in the state. We asked Cox and a couple dozen of her classmates where they envisioned themselves in five years and what it would take for them to stay or, if they do leave, to return to Wyoming.