Youngkin vowed to end “the use of inherently divisive concepts in public education,” and his second order seeks to “empower Virginia parents in their children’s education and upbringing by allowing parents to make decisions on whether their child wears a mask in school.”
If alive today, how would King encourage us to tackle the renewed racial tensions America faces? And what would he have to say about divisive ideologies such as critical race theory?
We have never seen the far left hesitate to claim a people is facing discrimination, yet here it is fomenting that very discrimination itself. Why are Jewish students the exception?
A teachers union has filed a federal lawsuit over New Hampshire’s ban on teaching “divisive concepts” about race, culture and ethnicity. The union’s lawyers argue that that statute is “unconstitutionally vague” making it impossible for educators to teach on race and ethnicity to students.
Federal grant records show the U.S. Department of Education has awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to fund critical race theory training for future educators at several colleges across the country.
The things I see from Vermont public schools cause me anxiety. I see example after example of racist teaching that has no place in our public schools. Students are singled out for their race and taught that because of the color of their skin they are racist.
America’s criminal jurisprudence presumes innocence until guilt is proved. In proving that guilt, most crimes require proof of “mens rea” — an intent to commit the crime. In recent years this concept is being reversed by social justice warriors.
“When we tell you that schools aren’t teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT), that it is nowhere in our standards, that’s misdirection,” he said in the video. “We don’t have the quotes and theories as state standards, per se. We do have Critical Race Theory in how we teach.”
A Winooski High School soccer player who allegedly head-butted an Enosburg Falls player earlier this fall won’t face criminal charges, according to a letter from local prosecutors.
For those concerned that the Marxist playbook is being used to indoctrinate American children into a monolithic, uncritical acceptance of “social justice theory” and identity politics, the practices being implemented in Vermont are the smoking gun of affirmation.
Diversity, equity and inclusion consultants are getting paid millions of dollars by public schools “to push divisive ideologies” to transform American schools “from institutions of education to places of woke indoctrination.”
The school leadership boasts that they are implementing a “radical change” in the way students are taught. But never mind, it is not “explicit.” This is deliberate misinformation by the school board.