FCPS CRT or nah?

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Anonymous wrote:Even seriously considering the idea of that level of de-tracking and minimizing advanced math is reason enough for parents to make noise.

You have to catch these things before they get too far.

Anyway, apparently Youngkin has squashed the whole deal.

The next time Dems take over at the state level maybe they won’t try to decrease academic offerings.

VDOE already squashed detracking in April 2021. Academic offerings were not being decreased.

Youngkin is pushing these lies to fleece his followers.

VDOE only backtracked on that when the FCPS and TJ moms like Asra caught wind of the plan.

Afger getting caught, they backtracked and purged the VDOE website of the details that showed their plan was indeed to dumb down math standards and detrack students all the way from K through 10th grade.

The evidence was there on the Virginia Department of Education website. Many parents viewed the written materials and watched the videos.

You can make up and repost the same thing over and over, but you are being dishonest and inaccurate.

Another point, when VDOE revised the elementary school history standards last year, they added a bullet in the curriculum standards for history that elementary kids in Virginia are to be taught that Independence Day (July 4th) is a divisive and controversial holiday.

So if you have parents in elementary school, indoctrinating elementary kids to view the celebration of our nation's birthday as a bad thing was next on their agenda. The documents are available on the VA dept of education website. You just have to do some digging.

VDOE did consider de-tracking early in the process - in what they called the "building phase".
Yes, it was discussed.
Yes, there was a link about de-tracking on the website.


It is 100% lie to say that, after April 2021, VDOE was going to include de-tracking in their proposed changes.

The northern Virginia parents discovered the plan ro detrack in early spring and raised a ruckus, to the VA department of ed backtracked and purged those plans from their website.

Several school districts in the state had already initiated detracking diluring their spring class registration process based off VA DOE guidance, due to the timing of the changes overlapping with their class registration.

The outcry by parents, particularly NoVA parents was loud, passionate and swift once these plans became public.

So the VA dept of ed changed course in April 2021.

If there had not been a publicizing of this plan by diligent parents, the plan to detrack would have continued. They only stopped because they got caught.

It wasn’t a “plan”. It never even made it as far as the draft proposal which would have come out this year.

It was one idea in a portfolio of possible changes to the math curriculum. They included it last year along with everything else during info sessions that were held explicitly for them to gather parent feedback.

Parents didn’t like it. They cut that part out. There is no big conspiracy here.

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Parents had to push back on an effort by education “experts” to sabotage education.

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Parents didn’t like it. They cut that part out. There is no big conspiracy here.

Parents didn't like any of it. They cut it all out. It's over, go home. Stop polluting threads with your pouting.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents had to push back on an effort by education “experts” to sabotage education.

I couldn't figure that one out, it arguably made education worse for students, but may have made things for admin look better.

I also swear whomever had come up with it, never took physics for STEM majors which requires calculus.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents had to push back on an effort by education “experts” to sabotage education.

I couldn't figure that one out, it arguably made education worse for students, but may have made things for admin look better.

I also swear whomever had come up with it, never took physics for STEM majors which requires calculus.

Northam's Sec of Education had only one agenda: "Equity"

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You want us to click on a a link to The Federalist for an opinion piece and then discuss it as if it contained facts? Nah.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents had to push back on an effort by education “experts” to sabotage education.

I couldn't figure that one out, it arguably made education worse for students, but may have made things for admin look better.

I also swear whomever had come up with it, never took physics for STEM majors which requires calculus.

Northam's Sec of Education had only one agenda: "Equity"

- at the expense of academics during the pandemic.

Gross dereliction of duty!

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What better time to try and do it?

[Anonymous]

Great piece in today's WSJ about DEI in schools. CRT is simply shorthand for DEI run amok.

No longer are private schools focused primarily on teaching critical thinking, fostering intellectual curiosity, and rewarding independent thought. Their new mission is to train a vanguard of activists to lead the charge in tearing down the foundations of society, reminiscent of Maoist China’s Red Guards.

The danger, however, goes far beyond private schools. The same framework called diversity, inclusion, belonging, equity and justice has gained influence in public education, universities, corporate workplaces, the federal government and the military. For the sake of our children and our nation’s future, it must be dismantled.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-woke-indoctrination-machine-diversity-equity-inclusion-bipoc-schools-conference-11644613908?mod=opinion_lead_pos5

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents had to push back on an effort by education “experts” to sabotage education.

I couldn't figure that one out, it arguably made education worse for students, but may have made things for admin look better.

I also swear whomever had come up with it, never took physics for STEM majors which requires calculus.

Northam's Sec of Education had only one agenda: "Equity"

- at the expense of academics during the pandemic.

Gross dereliction of duty!

+100
So glad Youngkin replaced all mentions of "equity" with "opportunity".

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Anonymous wrote:I know it’s popular to say CRT isn’t taught in schools, and that it’s strawman to rev up the base. And at a macro level, that statement is generally true, but what about this:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/19/in-defiance-of-youngkin-fairfax-public-school-demands-high-schoolers-participate-in-privilege-bingo/" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/19/in-defiance-of-youngkin-fairfax-public-school-demands-high-schoolers-participate-in-privilege-bingo/

I think Youngkin rode in on this kind of thing. And honestly this exactly the kind of thing that opposition parents were afraid of. Do you agree with this lesson?

The federalist is a right wing rag that prints nothing but nonsense. Stop reading it. It's all false or so twisted it might as well be.

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Anonymous wrote:Great piece in today's WSJ about DEI in schools. CRT is simply shorthand for DEI run amok.

No longer are private schools focused primarily on teaching critical thinking, fostering intellectual curiosity, and rewarding independent thought. Their new mission is to train a vanguard of activists to lead the charge in tearing down the foundations of society, reminiscent of Maoist China’s Red Guards.

The danger, however, goes far beyond private schools. The same framework called diversity, inclusion, belonging, equity and justice has gained influence in public education, universities, corporate workplaces, the federal government and the military. For the sake of our children and our nation’s future, it must be dismantled.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-woke-indoctrination-machine-diversity-equity-inclusion-bipoc-schools-conference-11644613908?mod=opinion_lead_pos5

It's really hard to take someone seriously who assumes most people will see "diversity, including, belonging, equity, and justice" as things that must be dismantled immediately.

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Anonymous wrote:On October 15th 2020, the Dept of Ed minutes show that when revising history standards, Virginia would no longer teach the following information to elementary school kids:


"1.13a,b,c Essential Knowledge
People in Virginia’s communities are united as Americans by common principles and traditions. , such as
● celebrating Independence Day (Fourth of July)
pledging allegiance to the flag."

This standard was struck through and removed from our elementary school curriculum.

There are other changes made on that day that many, if not most people in Virginia, including democrats, would possibly find controversial and contrary to our shared values as Americans. Other people might not be bothered by the changes and might support them wholeheartedly.

This specific change stood out to me because our state board of ed promoting in our elementary kids the viewpoint that Americans and Virginians are not united by common principals and traditions, particularly the tradition of celebrating our nation's birthday on Independence Day is dangerous and wrong. It is anti American indoctrination, period.

The vast majority of parents do not scrutinize what is happening in educational leadership and curriculum development to this level.

It is VERY tedious to wade through these documents and do the deep search.

That is why I am very grateful for people like the TJ parents and like Asra and like #openfcps who are willing to do that boring and tedious research into the VA dept of ed and into the fcps school board and into Gatehouse. I appreciate them even if they can be at time over the top, partisan and sensational.

Look at these meeting minute from 10/15/2020

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/boe/meetings/2020/10-oct/agenda-101520.shtml

They are long, tedious and boring. Most people won't look but those people do, then share what they find. We should all be so diligent. And if it is too much for us, we should be grateful that they are willing to dive deep and share with the rest of us.

Having schools that don't indoctrinate our kids to one political viewpoint, that don't teach our kids to despise our country and eachother, don't excuse pornographic content over "the gay perspective" (aren't there books and literature that present LGBT issues in a healthier and non pornographic, more uplifting way that aren't normalizing promiscuity?) and who don't divide our kids should NOT be considered just a republican thing.

Don't those on the left also want those things?. Don't they also want schools free of politics, that focus on academics, teach kids to love and respect one another in spite of our richly different life experiences, and which teach our kids to love our country so they view it as something worth fighting for as they work to create a more perfect union?

The hilarious part is you probably think it's liberals who have been "indoctrinated."

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Anonymous wrote:Great piece in today's WSJ about DEI in schools. CRT is simply shorthand for DEI run amok.

No longer are private schools focused primarily on teaching critical thinking, fostering intellectual curiosity, and rewarding independent thought. Their new mission is to train a vanguard of activists to lead the charge in tearing down the foundations of society, reminiscent of Maoist China’s Red Guards.

The danger, however, goes far beyond private schools. The same framework called diversity, inclusion, belonging, equity and justice has gained influence in public education, universities, corporate workplaces, the federal government and the military. For the sake of our children and our nation’s future, it must be dismantled.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-woke-indoctrination-machine-diversity-equity-inclusion-bipoc-schools-conference-11644613908?mod=opinion_lead_pos5

What disgusting garbage masquerading as education.

This is why Youngkin got elected; this is why the mindless educrats addicted to this crap will try to tear him down at ever turn; and this why we will continue to support him and work to rid our school systems of the purveyors of this divisive nonsense (and the feckless School Board members who subscribe to or turn a blind eye to this radical ideology of hate).

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Anonymous wrote:Great piece in today's WSJ about DEI in schools. CRT is simply shorthand for DEI run amok.

No longer are private schools focused primarily on teaching critical thinking, fostering intellectual curiosity, and rewarding independent thought. Their new mission is to train a vanguard of activists to lead the charge in tearing down the foundations of society, reminiscent of Maoist China’s Red Guards.

The danger, however, goes far beyond private schools. The same framework called diversity, inclusion, belonging, equity and justice has gained influence in public education, universities, corporate workplaces, the federal government and the military. For the sake of our children and our nation’s future, it must be dismantled.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-woke-indoctrination-machine-diversity-equity-inclusion-bipoc-schools-conference-11644613908?mod=opinion_lead_pos5

It's really hard to take someone seriously who assumes most people will see "diversity, including, belonging, equity, and justice" as things that must be dismantled immediately.

It's because you either don't understand or are purposefully ignoring the underlying goals of each of these goals.

Diversity - Where people are selected based on their skin color, AKA racism.

Including/Belonging - Forced association between private parties where at least one party is unwilling to participate in the association, but required to participate.

Equity - The pursuit of equal outcomes while ignoring unequal levels of effort, and disadvantaging parental support for their children to do better. Furthermore, payment transfers from those who have more to those who have less until "equity" has been reached.

Justice - The overarching term used to justify government infringements on liberty and property in the name of diversity, inclusion/belonging, and equity.