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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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 [b]NOT[/b] 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?

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

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