Youngkin taps critical race theory opponents to lead public education in Virginia

Virginia Mercury ^ | 1/14/2022 | Kate Masters

[TexasGurl24]

Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin has named two women with track records of opposing “critical race theory” — a once obscure collegiate field that’s become a conservative catch-all term for racial equity and diversity initiatives in public schools — to top posts at the Virginia Department of Education.

Jillian Balow, formerly Wyoming’s elected superintendent of public instruction, will take on the same job in Virginia, Youngkin announced in a news release Thursday.

Jillian Balow, Virginia’s incoming superintendent of public instruction. (Wyoming Department of Education) Before stepping down to join Youngkin’s administration, Balow supported a proposed Wyoming bill that would require K-12 schools to publish lists of instructional materials, among other provisions. According to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Balow endorsed the bill alongside its patrons, one of whom described the legislation as an effort to prevent “the indoctrination found in the critical race theory curriculum that has been pushed by the far-left and has found its way into some classrooms.”

The draft bill would modify the state’s civics education, mandating that the history of slavery and race-based discrimination also include the end of slavery and “efforts to end discrimination in accordance with the founding principles of the United States.” Schools would also be required to teach that “it is wrong to be unfair to anyone or treat anyone differently due to their race or ethnicity,” according to the language of the bill.

[TexasGurl24]

BUT SOME BLOGS TOLD US YOUNGKIN WAS BAD AND VIRGINIA WOULD BE BETTER OFF WITH TERRY!

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FYI The Virginia Mercury is a leftist propaganda organ, and they are apoplectic about this pick.

[OttawaFreeper]

I thought some here were apoplectic about Youngkin’s picks for opposite reasons.

[MtnClimber]

Great way to get started, kicking sand in the faces of the communists!

[Pollard]

I thought I read the same thing.

[teeman8r]

this isn’t going to sit well with the founders... they will be tossing in their graves... oh wait... nevermind

[TexasGurl24]

Yep. A blog told them what to think, so they did.

[Twotone]

Sounds like Youngkin may be a mixed bag. Or maybe he didn’t vet the first appointee well...

Youngkin Education Nominee May be ‘Woke.’
Daily Wire ^ | December 22nd, 2021 | Gabe Kaminsky
Posted on 12/22/2021, 1:13:38 PM by shadowlands1960

While Glenn Youngkin rode the Critical Race Theory (CRT) backlash wave to the Virginia governorship, a Daily Wire review of his new education nominee’s background raises questions about the Republican’s commitment to eradicating politics from the classroom.

Aimee Rogstad Guidera, who was nominated by Youngkin on Monday to be secretary of education, is an education consultant — the president of Guidera Strategy. According to public records, in recent years Guidera has owned a home and operated her business out of the Minneapolis, Minnesota area. The area includes some of America’s most “woke” school districts, and many radical ideas that have recently taken foot across the country originally germinated there.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...

[Reily]

First problem, never put into an education decision maker slot a “professional educator\educrat”!

[Liz]

Contact Congress

U.S. House of Representatives:
* Telephone: 202-225-3121
* Website: http://www.house.gov/

U.S. Senate:
* Telephone: 202-224-3121
* Website: http://www.senate.gov/

TALKING POINTS

Self-serving educators....coached by Obumma, Bidung, Clinton.....routinely undermine American families’ safety and security.

Security Issues start w/ labeling parents as domestic terrorists and include:

<><>(a) any situation, threat, vulnerability, act or omission posing a risk of giving rise to imperiling the citizenry,
<><>(b) any breach of representations or covenants and/or official activities regarding safeguarding security,
<><>(c) political measures officially given to the FBI and seventeen US Intel agencies.

[rfp1234]

If Washington and Jefferson were alive today, they’d be rolling in their graves. ;P