Youngkin creates tip line for parents and students to report teachers for Thought Crime

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why has this devolved to talking about teaching slavery? It isn't about not teaching about slavery and the associated political history.

This is about so-called anti-racist and CRT influenced ideas being used in public schools. Call it the successor ideology, whatever you want. If this were about not teaching slavery or Jim Crow, and so on, it would have been an issue three, four, five, six, seven... years ago. But it wasn't. Why?

Because white conservatives are not allowed to be against teaching the history of slavery and civil rights movement of the 1960s. There's social consequences for things like that (or there were...). So, instead, they attack adjacent movements and modern leaders in the civil rights struggle.

It's called Dog Whistle politics. And wealthy conservatives have been doing it since forever to get poor whites agitated.

So if that is what you believe, stop with the discussion about practical history already being taught.

Start discussing what is actually being newly taught. Defend it. Justify it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why has this devolved to talking about teaching slavery? It isn't about not teaching about slavery and the associated political history.

This is about so-called anti-racist and CRT influenced ideas being used in public schools. Call it the successor ideology, whatever you want. If this were about not teaching slavery or Jim Crow, and so on, it would have been an issue three, four, five, six, seven... years ago. But it wasn't. Why?

Because white conservatives are not allowed to be against teaching the history of slavery and civil rights movement of the 1960s. There's social consequences for things like that (or there were...). So, instead, they attack adjacent movements and modern leaders in the civil rights struggle.

It's called Dog Whistle politics. And wealthy conservatives have been doing it since forever to get poor whites agitated.

So if that is what you believe, stop with the discussion about practical history already being taught.

Start discussing what is actually being newly taught. Defend it. Justify it.

What is being taught? Show me what's being taught in your child's classroom that is so offensive. The onus is on those screaming "CRT!!! Report the teachers to the police!!!" to show that inappropriate materials are being forced onto their children.

You and your interest groups are railing against something that really isn't happening inside of classrooms. There are no CRT materials in my kids' classes.

To the extent that their are inappropriate teachers saying unhinged things, that's happened since forever. That happened when I was in high school and those teachers were eventually removed from their classes.

But this ideological witchhunt by the Governor and Virginia conservatives is insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why has this devolved to talking about teaching slavery? It isn't about not teaching about slavery and the associated political history.

This is about so-called anti-racist and CRT influenced ideas being used in public schools. Call it the successor ideology, whatever you want. If this were about not teaching slavery or Jim Crow, and so on, it would have been an issue three, four, five, six, seven... years ago. But it wasn't. Why?

Because white conservatives are not allowed to be against teaching the history of slavery and civil rights movement of the 1960s. There's social consequences for things like that (or there were...). So, instead, they attack adjacent movements and modern leaders in the civil rights struggle.

It's called Dog Whistle politics. And wealthy conservatives have been doing it since forever to get poor whites agitated.

So if that is what you believe, stop with the discussion about practical history already being taught.

Start discussing what is actually being newly taught. Defend it. Justify it.

It seems to be working on you PP....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why has this devolved to talking about teaching slavery? It isn't about not teaching about slavery and the associated political history.

This is about so-called anti-racist and CRT influenced ideas being used in public schools. Call it the successor ideology, whatever you want. If this were about not teaching slavery or Jim Crow, and so on, it would have been an issue three, four, five, six, seven... years ago. But it wasn't. Why?

Because white conservatives are not allowed to be against teaching the history of slavery and civil rights movement of the 1960s. There's social consequences for things like that (or there were...). So, instead, they attack adjacent movements and modern leaders in the civil rights struggle.

It's called Dog Whistle politics. And wealthy conservatives have been doing it since forever to get poor whites agitated.

So if that is what you believe, stop with the discussion about practical history already being taught.

Start discussing what is actually being newly taught. Defend it. Justify it.

What is being taught? Show me what's being taught in your child's classroom that is so offensive. The onus is on those screaming "CRT!!! Report the teachers to the police!!!" to show that inappropriate materials are being forced onto their children.

You and your interest groups are railing against something that really isn't happening inside of classrooms. There are no CRT materials in my kids' classes.

To the extent that their are inappropriate teachers saying unhinged things, that's happened since forever. That happened when I was in high school and those teachers were eventually removed from their classes.

But this ideological witchhunt by the Governor and Virginia conservatives is insane.

It's not about "CRT materials." This is not some rigid case that involves only teaching kids to be critical theorists. But you know that . The argument is about CRT-related concepts becoming integral to schooling: anti-racist pedagogy, so-called inherent privilege, the "white supremacy" of educational and cultural norms, systemic bias, etc.

If you want to learn more about what these people disagree with, you can look at the EdEquityVA site, although much of that site is now gone so you have to look at its history. There are many institutions that partner with schools that describe how CRT-related ideas should be applied to influence educators and in teaching. I believe SPLC does to some degree. There are others. Many Virginia schools have partnered with these types of people and organizations to alter curriculums and teaching methods. That isn't a secret. You can read the contracts.

From the EdEquityVA site "anti-racism requires acknowledging that racist beliefs and structures are pervasive in education and then actively doing work to tear down those beliefs and structures." If you believe racist beliefs are pervasive in education, and existing educational norms should be torn down, that is fine. But there are people who disagree with that, and they are pushing back. This isn't about making people like slavery. But if you want to reduce it to such laziness, you're perfectly welcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why has this devolved to talking about teaching slavery? It isn't about not teaching about slavery and the associated political history.

This is about so-called anti-racist and CRT influenced ideas being used in public schools. Call it the successor ideology, whatever you want. If this were about not teaching slavery or Jim Crow, and so on, it would have been an issue three, four, five, six, seven... years ago. But it wasn't. Why?

Because white conservatives are not allowed to be against teaching the history of slavery and civil rights movement of the 1960s. There's social consequences for things like that (or there were...). So, instead, they attack adjacent movements and modern leaders in the civil rights struggle.

It's called Dog Whistle politics. And wealthy conservatives have been doing it since forever to get poor whites agitated.

So if that is what you believe, stop with the discussion about practical history already being taught.

Start discussing what is actually being newly taught. Defend it. Justify it.

There isn't anything being "newly taught" - it is being hyperpoliticized and people like you fall for it.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why has this devolved to talking about teaching slavery? It isn't about not teaching about slavery and the associated political history.

This is about so-called anti-racist and CRT influenced ideas being used in public schools. Call it the successor ideology, whatever you want. If this were about not teaching slavery or Jim Crow, and so on, it would have been an issue three, four, five, six, seven... years ago. But it wasn't. Why?

Because white conservatives are not allowed to be against teaching the history of slavery and civil rights movement of the 1960s. There's social consequences for things like that (or there were...). So, instead, they attack adjacent movements and modern leaders in the civil rights struggle.

It's called Dog Whistle politics. And wealthy conservatives have been doing it since forever to get poor whites agitated.

So if that is what you believe, stop with the discussion about practical history already being taught.

Start discussing what is actually being newly taught. Defend it. Justify it.

What is being taught? Show me what's being taught in your child's classroom that is so offensive. The onus is on those screaming "CRT!!! Report the teachers to the police!!!" to show that inappropriate materials are being forced onto their children.

You and your interest groups are railing against something that really isn't happening inside of classrooms. There are no CRT materials in my kids' classes.

To the extent that their are inappropriate teachers saying unhinged things, that's happened since forever. That happened when I was in high school and those teachers were eventually removed from their classes.

But this ideological witchhunt by the Governor and Virginia conservatives is insane.

It's not about "CRT materials." This is not some rigid case that involves only teaching kids to be critical theorists. But you know that . The argument is about CRT-related concepts becoming integral to schooling: anti-racist pedagogy, so-called inherent privilege, the "white supremacy" of educational and cultural norms, systemic bias, etc.

If you want to learn more about what these people disagree with, you can look at the EdEquityVA site, although much of that site is now gone so you have to look at its history. There are many institutions that partner with schools that describe how CRT-related ideas should be applied to influence educators and in teaching. I believe SPLC does to some degree. There are others. Many Virginia schools have partnered with these types of people and organizations to alter curriculums and teaching methods. That isn't a secret. You can read the contracts.

From the EdEquityVA site "anti-racism requires acknowledging that racist beliefs and structures are pervasive in education and then actively doing work to tear down those beliefs and structures." If you believe racist beliefs are pervasive in education, and existing educational norms should be torn down, that is fine. But there are people who disagree with that, and they are pushing back. This isn't about making people like slavery. But if you want to reduce it to such laziness, you're perfectly welcome.

There are people that disagree with the concepts of systemic bias, inherent privilege, and that racism is both a personal and an institutional problem. These people have a vested interest in continuing the lie that America is a pure meritocracy and people like Trump, Youngkin, and the Koch Bros, sons of immense privilege who have in turn beget more children of immense privilege, deserve to have what they have because they earned it on their merits alone.

They know broke white people are obsessed with their own grievance, and so they have chosen to use them to advance their ultimate cause which is defunding the public school system altogether. They don’t believe in a meritocracy for you, you see. It’s easy to blame teachers and anti-racism advocates for your problems, but they don’t have anything to do with why you’re broke and your kids have no future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why has this devolved to talking about teaching slavery? It isn't about not teaching about slavery and the associated political history.

This is about so-called anti-racist and CRT influenced ideas being used in public schools. Call it the successor ideology, whatever you want. If this were about not teaching slavery or Jim Crow, and so on, it would have been an issue three, four, five, six, seven... years ago. But it wasn't. Why?

Because white conservatives are not allowed to be against teaching the history of slavery and civil rights movement of the 1960s. There's social consequences for things like that (or there were...). So, instead, they attack adjacent movements and modern leaders in the civil rights struggle.

It's called Dog Whistle politics. And wealthy conservatives have been doing it since forever to get poor whites agitated.

So if that is what you believe, stop with the discussion about practical history already being taught.

Start discussing what is actually being newly taught. Defend it. Justify it.

What is being taught? Show me what's being taught in your child's classroom that is so offensive. The onus is on those screaming "CRT!!! Report the teachers to the police!!!" to show that inappropriate materials are being forced onto their children.

You and your interest groups are railing against something that really isn't happening inside of classrooms. There are no CRT materials in my kids' classes.

To the extent that their are inappropriate teachers saying unhinged things, that's happened since forever. That happened when I was in high school and those teachers were eventually removed from their classes.

But this ideological witchhunt by the Governor and Virginia conservatives is insane.

It's not about "CRT materials." This is not some rigid case that involves only teaching kids to be critical theorists. But you know that . The argument is about CRT-related concepts becoming integral to schooling: anti-racist pedagogy, so-called inherent privilege, the "white supremacy" of educational and cultural norms, systemic bias, etc.

If you want to learn more about what these people disagree with, you can look at the EdEquityVA site, although much of that site is now gone so you have to look at its history. There are many institutions that partner with schools that describe how CRT-related ideas should be applied to influence educators and in teaching. I believe SPLC does to some degree. There are others. Many Virginia schools have partnered with these types of people and organizations to alter curriculums and teaching methods. That isn't a secret. You can read the contracts.

From the EdEquityVA site "anti-racism requires acknowledging that racist beliefs and structures are pervasive in education and then actively doing work to tear down those beliefs and structures." If you believe racist beliefs are pervasive in education, and existing educational norms should be torn down, that is fine. But there are people who disagree with that, and they are pushing back. This isn't about making people like slavery. But if you want to reduce it to such laziness, you're perfectly welcome.

There are people that disagree with the concepts of systemic bias, inherent privilege, and that racism is both a personal and an institutional problem. These people have a vested interest in continuing the lie that America is a pure meritocracy and people like Trump, Youngkin, and the Koch Bros, sons of immense privilege who have in turn beget more children of immense privilege, deserve to have what they have because they earned it on their merits alone.

They know broke white people are obsessed with their own grievance, and so they have chosen to use them to advance their ultimate cause which is defunding the public school system altogether. They don’t believe in a meritocracy for you, you see. It’s easy to blame teachers and anti-racism advocates for your problems, but they don’t have anything to do with why you’re broke and your kids have no future.

Uh huh. Keep pushing your fantasy of choice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a disaster. It's ripe to be corrupted.

I think it will be an important tool in keeping teachers personal bias out of education.

Why is that a bad thing?

Because the people who it’s aimed at have a tenuous connection to truth and facts. According to them, COVID is a conspiracy to inject 5G chips, and black people enjoyed slavery.

There used to be a time when we made fun of people who were proud to be morons. Now we empower them. It’s not enough that they make their own kids uninformed losers, they want all kids to be uninformed losers.

Wait, people in NOVA think black people enjoyed slavery? How many? Can you point me to them?

Morons. Hmm.

Truth hurts

https://richmond.com/discover-richmond/happy-slaves-the-peculiar-story-of-three-virginia-school-textbooks/article_47e79d49-eac8-575d-ac9d-1c6fce52328f.html

OK, those textbooks are very well known and haven't been used in 50 years.

Textbooks like that were used well into the 1970 in some schools in Virginia. Seems as if some Virginia parents learned it that way and liked it.

DP. I'm not sure what the point of your post is?? These books haven't been used since 1970. Textbooks since then absolutely reflect the (horrible) reality of slavery. You are truly tilting at windmills.

[Anonymous]

FWIW, I had that text book as a kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a disaster. It's ripe to be corrupted.

I think it will be an important tool in keeping teachers personal bias out of education.

Why is that a bad thing?

Because the people who it’s aimed at have a tenuous connection to truth and facts. According to them, COVID is a conspiracy to inject 5G chips, and black people enjoyed slavery.

There used to be a time when we made fun of people who were proud to be morons. Now we empower them. It’s not enough that they make their own kids uninformed losers, they want all kids to be uninformed losers.

Wait, people in NOVA think black people enjoyed slavery? How many? Can you point me to them?

Morons. Hmm.

Truth hurts

https://richmond.com/discover-richmond/happy-slaves-the-peculiar-story-of-three-virginia-school-textbooks/article_47e79d49-eac8-575d-ac9d-1c6fce52328f.html

OK, those textbooks are very well known and haven't been used in 50 years.

Textbooks like that were used well into the 1970 in some schools in Virginia. Seems as if some Virginia parents learned it that way and liked it.

DP. I'm not sure what the point of your post is?? These books haven't been used since 1970. Textbooks since then absolutely reflect the (horrible) reality of slavery. You are truly tilting at windmills.

one of the funniest lines was not in yellow " in sickness all slaves were given health care". It is as if conservatives know that everybody deserves health care, no matter how poor. Even people forced into slavery deserve it. hahahaha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why has this devolved to talking about teaching slavery? It isn't about not teaching about slavery and the associated political history.

This is about so-called anti-racist and CRT influenced ideas being used in public schools. Call it the successor ideology, whatever you want. If this were about not teaching slavery or Jim Crow, and so on, it would have been an issue three, four, five, six, seven... years ago. But it wasn't. Why?

Because white conservatives are not allowed to be against teaching the history of slavery and civil rights movement of the 1960s. There's social consequences for things like that (or there were...). So, instead, they attack adjacent movements and modern leaders in the civil rights struggle.

It's called Dog Whistle politics. And wealthy conservatives have been doing it since forever to get poor whites agitated.

DP. BS. No one - NO ONE - is advocating not teaching the history of slavery and civil rights. It's been taught all along and that's NOT the problem, as much as you dunces want to insist it is. The issue is framing everything through the lens of race. This is what teachers are being trained to do, and THAT is the problem. Educate yourself before spouting off so ignorantly.

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/BTFRCZ6CA62E/$file/Final%20Anti-Racism%20Anti-Bias%20Curriculum%20Work%20Session%20Sept%2014%202020.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why has this devolved to talking about teaching slavery? It isn't about not teaching about slavery and the associated political history.

This is about so-called anti-racist and CRT influenced ideas being used in public schools. Call it the successor ideology, whatever you want. If this were about not teaching slavery or Jim Crow, and so on, it would have been an issue three, four, five, six, seven... years ago. But it wasn't. Why?

Because white conservatives are not allowed to be against teaching the history of slavery and civil rights movement of the 1960s. There's social consequences for things like that (or there were...). So, instead, they attack adjacent movements and modern leaders in the civil rights struggle.

It's called Dog Whistle politics. And wealthy conservatives have been doing it since forever to get poor whites agitated.

So if that is what you believe, stop with the discussion about practical history already being taught.

Start discussing what is actually being newly taught. Defend it. Justify it.

What is being taught? Show me what's being taught in your child's classroom that is so offensive. The onus is on those screaming "CRT!!! Report the teachers to the police!!!" to show that inappropriate materials are being forced onto their children.

You and your interest groups are railing against something that really isn't happening inside of classrooms. There are no CRT materials in my kids' classes.

To the extent that their are inappropriate teachers saying unhinged things, that's happened since forever. That happened when I was in high school and those teachers were eventually removed from their classes.

But this ideological witchhunt by the Governor and Virginia conservatives is insane.

It's not about "CRT materials." This is not some rigid case that involves only teaching kids to be critical theorists. But you know that . The argument is about CRT-related concepts becoming integral to schooling: anti-racist pedagogy, so-called inherent privilege, the "white supremacy" of educational and cultural norms, systemic bias, etc.

If you want to learn more about what these people disagree with, you can look at the EdEquityVA site, although much of that site is now gone so you have to look at its history. There are many institutions that partner with schools that describe how CRT-related ideas should be applied to influence educators and in teaching. I believe SPLC does to some degree. There are others. Many Virginia schools have partnered with these types of people and organizations to alter curriculums and teaching methods. That isn't a secret. You can read the contracts.

From the EdEquityVA site "anti-racism requires acknowledging that racist beliefs and structures are pervasive in education and then actively doing work to tear down those beliefs and structures." If you believe racist beliefs are pervasive in education, and existing educational norms should be torn down, that is fine. But there are people who disagree with that, and they are pushing back. This isn't about making people like slavery. But if you want to reduce it to such laziness, you're perfectly welcome.

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[Anonymous]

The tip line is probably set up so people can report stupid things--e.g. the "Privilege Bingo" at an FCPS high school. The one that had you win if your parents are married, are white, and a "military kid."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The tip line is probably set up so people can report stupid things--e.g. the "Privilege Bingo" at an FCPS high school. The one that had you win if your parents are married, are white, and a "military kid."

Exactly. And the survey given to my kid at another FCPS high school stating that if you have ever used a Southern, Australian, or British accent, you have committed a micro-aggression. Oh, and also if you've ever considered Asian kids good at math. Micro-aggression. And frankly, this garbage *does* need to be called out.