Posted on 10/31/2021 5:46:52 AM PDT by Libloather
The phrase "Critical Race Theory" appears on the Virginia Department of Education website despite Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s repeated claims the curriculum is not taught in Virginia.
On the Virginia Department of Education website, several examples of the department promoting Critical Race Theory can be found, including a presentation from 2015, when Terry McAullife was governor, that encourages teachers to "embrace Critical Race Theory" in "order to re-engineer attitudes and belief systems."
Additionally, superintendent memo 050-19 can be found on the site from February 2019 promoting both Critical Race Theory and the idea of "white fragility."
Also in 2019, under Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, Superintendent of Public Instruction James Lane sent a memo to Virginia public schools endorsing "Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education," as an important "tool" that can "further spur developments in education."
City Journal’s Christopher Rufo detailed the revelations in a Twitter thread Saturday taking issues with McAuliffe’s claims that Critical Race Theory is a "racist dog whistle" that has "never been taught in Virginia."
Rufo also posted screenshots from the department’s website citing Critical Race Theory in Education" as a "best practice."
"It's not taught in Virginia and it's never been taught in Virginia," McAuliffe said earlier this month about the controversial curriculum which teaches that the United States is fundamentally racist. "And as I've said this a lot, it's a dog whistle. It's racial, it's division and it's used by Glenn Youngkin and others, it's the same thing with Trump and the border wall, to divide people. We should not be dividing people in school."
The McAuliffe campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the presence of Critical Race Theory in Virginia public schools.
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McAwful needs to buy a newspaper once in awhile.
What’s really upsetting is just how many conservatives here really think that we can simply ‘outlaw’ CRT and it will go away.
Sorry, not so easy. As long as the schools and the teachers want CRT, you WILL get CRT, regardless of what the law states. And since the Leftists running our schools want CRT, CRT WILL remain in place, like it or not.
The ONLY way to end CRT given the ‘folks’ who control our schools is through 24/7 cameras and microphones that can be monitored by parents, and an easy way for parents to remove those who still try to slip it in. Short of that, CRT is here to say - and I have yet to see any state or school district talking cameras/microphones.
The ONLY way to end CRT given the ‘folks’ who control our schools is through 24/7 cameras and microphones that can be monitored by parents, and an easy way for parents to remove those who still try to slip it in. Short of that, CRT is here to say - and I have yet to see any state or school district talking cameras/microphones.
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We need cameras to monitor the teachers in the classroom. We need cameras to monitor vote counting. We need cameras to monitor the police.
Basically, all our institutions are not just failing, they’re being turned against the people. The institutions are all corrupt. Monitoring, like putting an ankle bracelet on a suspect, is a last-ditch effort to prevent further crimes.
For decades, the educational focus drifted from responsibility for one’s own actions to blaming the group for one’s actions. The result is a society without a moral compass which requires constant monitoring because they have no innate desire to do the right thing. No sense of right or wrong.
Promoting CRT in public schools is racist and child abuse and promoters need to be tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison.
“Promoting CRT in public schools is racist and child abuse and promoters need to be tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison.”
Sure, but they’ll deny it all the way, and proof will literally be impossible, unless they screw up (such as letting a parent get their hands on the ‘teaching material’).
Impossible to prevent CRT, without iron-clad enforcement.
No matter how the vote goes Tuesday, I am proud to have been able to watch the Va. Moms and Dads stand up to the woke Va. School Boards who are pushing the Country toward Woke Socialism by destroying the minds of children, That’s what Hitler did and it took a World War to stop it. Keep up the good work Moms and Dads!
Oh, spit.
I have to add “consummate” liar to the list of Mc Auliffe’s defects....
.....and there’s no more pages in the encyclopedia.
Parents need to instruct their children on how to video and audio record CRT-propagand teachers in school. Then go public with the evidence.
“Parents need to instruct their children on how to video and audio record CRT-propagand teachers in school. Then go public with the evidence.”
True, if cameras/microphones cannot be installed, but high-risk for the kids.
Please stop the obsession with “CRT”. They are joust going to change the name, and most anti-CRT people will claim victory.
The problem is anti-white propaganda designed to injure white children, particularly small ones. THAT is what must be ended, whatever it’s called.
Although Virginia right now is light blue and becoming bluer, Virginia may be an example of why heavily Democrat states like California, Illinois and Massachusetts often elect Republican governors, albeit RINOs, while sending Democrats to Congress and the Presidency to blight the national landscape. It is analogous to throwing their trash out the window to annoy others rather than having it lay about the floors in their home. Basically. they do not want the far left version of their “virtue” signaling impacting their own lives or they determine the fiscal irresponsibility that Democrat governors bring to their states may need a deep local cleansing and so they elect a RINO governor to clean it, only to have their short-term memories pick up the crack pipe again and return to a Dem governor once the RINO cleans the fiscal mess. Many of the white virtue signalers in Northern Virginia do not want CRT or boys in girls’ bathrooms impacting their own kids, although they don’t mind it impacting some other state’s kids. Their hypocrisy gives RINO Youngkin, who has promised to dump CRT, the edge. In that sense, Dem hypocrisy holds certain benefits for Republican candidates.
The education cabal displays it’s most heinous agenda......grooming children as sex partners for pedos and homos.
abcnews.com
School system pulls 2 books with graphic sex from libraries
A northern Virginia school system said it is removing two books from school libraries, including an illustrated memoir that contains explicit illustrations of sexual encounters involving children
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press
September 24, 2021, 5:10 PM
• 4 min read
FALLS CHURCH. Va. — A northern Virginia school system said it is removing two books from school libraries, including an illustrated memoir that contains explicit illustrations of sexual encounters involving children, after a parent expressed concern about them at a school board meeting.
Stacy Langton, a parent in the Fairfax County school system, questioned the school board at a public meeting Thursday about the books’ availability in high school libraries. As she quoted from explicit passages in the book, a school board member interrupted her and chastised her for using explicit language.
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Another school board member defended the books by saying they are available only in high school libraries, not in grade schools.
On Friday, the school system initially said it was conducting a review. Later in the day, it said it was pulling “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe and “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison from circulation pending a more detailed review. Two committees made up of staff, students and parents will assess both books and make recommendations to the assistant superintendent of instructional services “who will make a final decision as to whether FCPS continues to provide access to these books in our high school libraries,” the school system said.
“Gender Queer” publisher Oni Press issued a statement Friday saying that limiting the book’s availability is “short-sighted and reactionary.”
“Oni Press supports Maia Kobabe for the truth and strength in sharing eir story, and hope to be a home for others who want to share their own stories with the world. The fact is, GENDER QUEER is an important, timely piece of work that serves as an invaluable resource for not only those that identity as nonbinary or genderqueer, but for people looking to understand what that means.”
Online inventory systems showed both books were widely available throughout high school libraries in the Fairfax County system. One school, Robinson Secondary, serves grades 7-12.
Indeed, one or both books are available in school systems throughout the region, including Loudoun County, Arlington County, Alexandria and Montgomery County, Maryland, schools, according to online catalogs.
Langton, in an interview Friday, said she had never spoken up at a school board meeting before, but the books were so obscene that she had to speak up.
She said she heard about the books earlier this month at a school board meeting in Texas, and became curious whether they were available. Sure enough, the books her in her son’s school library.
The books “are actually so much worse than I ever would have imagined. So much worse,” she said.
“Gender Queer,” an illustrated memoir, contains explicit illustrations of oral sex and masturbation. The novel “Lawn Boy” contains graphic descriptions of sex between men and children. Both books were previous winners of the American Library Association’s Alex Awards, which each year recognize “ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12 through 18.”
Langton said the fact that school board members felt compelled to interrupt her when she read graphic passages aloud illustrates her point about the books’ inappropriate nature.
“I was very angry that they cut me off,” she said.
The controversy is the latest to befuddle Fairfax County’s school board, and other across Virginia and the country as conservative parents object to masks in schools, anti-racism curriculum, and policy changes requiring transgender students be referred to by their preferred pronouns.
Asra Nomani, who attended Thursday’s meeting and serves as vice president of strategy and investigations at Parents Defending Education, a recently formed advocacy group, said the high-handed response from the school board to Langton’s concerns reflects the divide between activist school board members and parents.
“It’s very unfair to demonize and marginalize parents, because they have serious concerns,” Nomani said.
One school board member, Karl Frisch, offered a defense of sorts on Twitter, saying Thursday night that “nothing will disrupt our Board’s commitment to LGBTQIA+ students, families and staff. Nothing.” But he was not explicit about whether his tweet was in response to Langton’s comments. He declined comment Friday.
I use CRT generically, because that’s what people understand and relate to.
No different than “Common Core”. People thought it was some new, totally screwed up, way of ‘teaching’, but it wasn’t.
...it wasn’t new, not by a long-shot. It just now had a NAME that people understood and thus it’s dumb to ignore that name.
In his Aug 6 email, Supt Scott Ziegler requested L/E muscle at board meetings including:
<><>multiple Loudoun sheriff’s deputies,
<><>a Loudoun sheriff’s “five-person Quick Reaction Force (QRF),
<><>undercover Loudoun sheriff’s deputies at the administrative building,
<><>a Loudoun sheriff’s special operations team on standby
<><> and several other provisions.
Response shows Loudoun sheriff’s frustration with school board, and it’s callous treatment of residents
The solution is very simple. Parents should elect conservatives to their school board. Then, hire conservatives for Superintendent of Schools positions. Then, problem would be solved.
He’s a Clintonian politician. It’s not a lie because he believes it’s not a lie. Facts to him are irrelevant.
It has to go further than that. The educational departments in college need to be retaken. That’s where this mess starts.
Then sue for creating a hostile environment. Start suing for the cost of private school education, because the kids feel unsafe.
“It has to go further than that. The educational departments in college need to be retaken. That’s where this mess starts.”
Agree, that is where it starts. But ask yourself, why do we even have ‘education’ departments in our universities? Seems to me a few vocational classes is about all that’s needed to get people ready to teach in classrooms, providing that the teachers are already appropriately educated in what they’ll be teaching.
Nah. Have you forgotten Alinsky’s rules for radicals? Collapse the liberal education system by pulling your kids from the system. Refuse to participate. Screw em.
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