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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Republicans are idiots 
They literally voted in Youngkin on the CRT issue .

Now he’s going to “ban” crt 😂 given it was never taught in schools that’s pretty amazing

As for these school board crazies good luck VA you just voted to destroy schools. And now have screaming religious zealots with their lovely Church going behaviors. Fun times! [/quote]

Saying that CRT was "never taught in schools" is the latest mating call for progressives in denial who just got their asses handed to them on a platter.

No one was claiming 4th graders were being forced to read law-school texts on CRT.  What has been said - and, correctly so - is that CRT-motivated pedagogy is now standard training in school systems like FCPS, and then impacts entire school systems.  Here is an excerpt from part of the introduction to one of the leading CRT treatises:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1456228658134323200/photo/1

When a bumbling educrat like Scott Brabrand spends the better part of the last two years claiming "equity is at the center of everything we do," that is more than a slight nod to CRT.  And it really isn't helping anyone, except the "anti-racist" experts and consultancies, like the one founded by Merrick Garland's son-in-law, who get rich milking school systems to sell their speeches, training sessions, and surveys.  [/quote]

What's ironic is that this same group of people will argue until their face is red, that there are things such as implicit bias, or that our systems are inherently racist even though they are not outwardly or explicitly racist. But when it comes to CRT, all of a sudden, even explicit references to CRT ideology and terminology is somehow not CRT because it's not the whole thing that is taught in college courses. [/quote]

Stop laser-focusing on "CRT" then and articulate exactly what it is that you want to go away. Stop throwing tantrums and use your words. 
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I never before equated showing up at the ballot box and casting a vote with throwing a tantrum. Youngkin pretty clearly laid out in his closing argument that he wanted Virginia standards to teach US history, warts and all, without making kids do things like [b]"privilege walks," be separated out by race in classrooms,[/b] and similar kinds of activities that parents are reacting to. People voted for that.[/quote]

Where has that happened in VA? 
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I haven't heard that it has. The examples I've seen have been US-based, but in places like CA. However it was very clear that our existing VDOE leadership and many of our existing school board members were operating from the same world view - see the EdEquity page above - and people didn't want these kinds of horror stories to start.

To be clear, some of these things are not because, say, Kendi himself would recommend them in Stamped For Kids. They're because teachers are given vague directions on "cultural competency" or "anti-racism" and they end up implementing these ideas. Since all McAuliffe was doing was insisting "CRT isn't taught here" instead of saying, "I hear your concerns and I will make sure that we teach about implicit bias and systemic racism without re-enacting the horror stories of 8 year olds having to talk about all the ways they are vicitimized or privileged on the basis of race," what were concerned voters to do?

So far the only SB member I've heard say something about teaching the warts of history without reducing kids to skin color was Megan McLaughlin, who said that she understood privilege to be a complex mass of factors.[/quote]

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