A New Dawn in Virginia

[Bud_Spencer]

Glenn Youngkin issuing 11 EOs on his first day, making masks optional in schools and banning the use of CRT in same to fill the little skulls full of mush with lies and gibberish.

Great start, Gov. Youngkin!

 

[GothTalk]

It's going to be a rough next few years for the (D)'eez.

 

[PaxNurgle]

Geez, what's next, fucking Jim Crow laws?

You fucking racist goons need to take a look at the Stormfront.Org board and fuck off, if you are into that shit. The fact that we are still having conversations like this in 2022, and dipshits like you approve, is exactly what is wrong with our country today.

 

[pecksniff]

. . . banning the use of CRT . . .

Like it was being taught in Virginia schools before.

 

[phrodeau]

His fifth EO creates the position of Commonwealth Chief Transformation Officer, somebody to do his job for him.

https://www.governor.virginia.gov/m...--CTO-Creation--Statewide-Audit--VEC--DMV.pdf

 

[pecksniff]

His fifth EO creates the position of Commonwealth Chief Transformation Officer, somebody to do his job for him.

https://www.governor.virginia.gov/m...--CTO-Creation--Statewide-Audit--VEC--DMV.pdf

Sounds like a sex-change thing.

 

[LittleDixie]

Like it was being taught in Virginia schools before.

Hey, if it wasn't being taught, then there shouldn't be any changes, right?

So, you didn't lose any ground! Congratulations!

 

[LittleDixie]

Political indoctrination has no place in our classrooms. The vast majority of learning in our schools involves imparting critical knowledge and skills in math, science, history, reading and other areas that should be non-controversial. Inherently divisive concepts, like Critical Race Theory and its progeny, instruct students to only view life through the lens of race and presumes that some students are consciously or unconsciously racist, sexist, or oppressive, and that other students are victims. This denies our students the opportunity to gain important facts, core knowledge, formulate their own opinions, and to think for themselves. Our children deserve far better from their education than to be told what to think.

Instead, the foundation of our educational system should be built on teaching our students how to think for themselves. Virginia must renew its commitment to teaching our children the value of freedom of thought and diversity of ideas. We must equip our teachers to teach our students the entirety of our history – both good and bad. From the horrors of American slavery and segregation, and our country’s treatment of Native Americans, to the triumph of America’s Greatest Generation against the Nazi Empire, the heroic efforts of Americans in the Civil Rights Movement, and our country’s defeat of the Soviet Union and the ills of Communism, we must provide our students with the facts and context necessary to understand these important events. Only then will we realize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that our children “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
https://www.governor.virginia.gov/m...TICAL-RACE-THEORY,-AND-RESTORING-EXCELLEN.pdf

Wow, that's actually pretty well said.

 

[pecksniff]

Wow, that's actually pretty well said.

It's pretty much impossible to teach civics or history, without some content somebody will call "political indoctrination."

 

[pecksniff]

Geez, what's next, fucking Jim Crow laws?

Well, let's just keep a close eye on what he does with respect to voting and elections.

 

[PaxNurgle]

It's pretty much impossible to teach civics or history, without some content somebody will call "political indoctrination."

This is exactly the problem!!!

They want to basically "Whitewash" everything, the only thing being acceptable is some kind of white-Christian nationalism- which in it's own way is even more nefarious.

Teaching about the Civil Rights movement, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Japanese-American camps during the 1940s, or even Martin Luther King is now "Critical Race Theory" and is illegal. Teachers are now supposed to pretend these things never happened, or worse, that they were somehow justified and okay.

 

[YDB95]

I went to high school in Virginia, and I never even heard the term "critical race theory" until years later.

 

[KeithD]

I went to high school in Virginia, and I never even heard the term "critical race theory" until years later.

Me too, but that was back (almost) before desegregation. (It was my junior high there that closed down to try to prevent school integration.)

But, boy, did we get a full diet of the Civil War in Virginia. (My high school was wedged between one named Robert E. Lee and another one named Jeb Stuart.)

 

[pecksniff]

Me too, but that was back (almost) before desegregation. (It was my junior high there that closed down to try to prevent school integration.)

But, boy, did we get a full diet of the Civil War in Virginia. (My high school was wedged between one named Robert E. Lee and another one named Jeb Stuart.)

I suppose it was taught from a Daughters of the Confederacy, Lost Cause of the South POV? Like in Birth of a Nation?

 

[YDB95]

I suppose it was taught from a Daughters of the Confederacy, Lost Cause of the South POV? Like in Birth of a Nation?

In my day it was blessedly devoid of that, but that was the '90s.

 

[KeithD]

I suppose it was taught from a Daughters of the Confederacy, Lost Cause of the South POV? Like in Birth of a Nation?

Not that I remember. It seemed mostly about battles. I don't remember them teaching much at all about either causation or slavery. Military families predominated in my high school district.

 

[GothTalk]

In my day it was blessedly devoid of that, but that was the '90s.

I thought you were way older.

 

[WillJ8787]

Hey, if it wasn't being taught, then there shouldn't be any changes, right?

So, you didn't lose any ground! Congratulations!

Lol...you got this one right.... nothing will change Bobo

 

[WillJ8787]

Political indoctrination has no place in our classrooms. The vast majority of learning in our schools involves imparting critical knowledge and skills in math, science, history, reading and other areas that should be non-controversial. Inherently divisive concepts, like Critical Race Theory and its progeny, instruct students to only view life through the lens of race and presumes that some students are consciously or unconsciously racist, sexist, or oppressive, and that other students are victims. This denies our students the opportunity to gain important facts, core knowledge, formulate their own opinions, and to think for themselves. Our children deserve far better from their education than to be told what to think.

Instead, the foundation of our educational system should be built on teaching our students how to think for themselves. Virginia must renew its commitment to teaching our children the value of freedom of thought and diversity of ideas. We must equip our teachers to teach our students the entirety of our history – both good and bad. From the horrors of American slavery and segregation, and our country’s treatment of Native Americans, to the triumph of America’s Greatest Generation against the Nazi Empire, the heroic efforts of Americans in the Civil Rights Movement, and our country’s defeat of the Soviet Union and the ills of Communism, we must provide our students with the facts and context necessary to understand these important events. Only then will we realize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that our children “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character

Lol...so nothing has changed in what will be taught and Youngkin can then go say what he did to his constituents...which is nothing...and they will praise and love him for it ... hahaha!

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Geez, what's next, fucking Jim Crow laws?

No that would be Democrats that implemented those. You remember Democrats, right? The previous Governor, the guy in the Klan robe (or was it blackface?) was one.

That's some history the Left is in no rush to teach, eh?

 

[Bud_Spencer]

This is exactly the problem!!!

They want to basically "Whitewash" everything, the only thing being acceptable is some kind of white-Christian nationalism- which in it's own way is even more nefarious.

Teaching about the Civil Rights movement, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Japanese-American camps during the 1940s, or even Martin Luther King is now "Critical Race Theory" and is illegal. Teachers are now supposed to pretend these things never happened, or worse, that they were somehow justified and okay.

That is simply a lie. CRT is not about teaching historical facts.

 

[pecksniff]

That is simply a lie. CRT is not about teaching historical facts.

Don't see any way to teach it without historical facts.

 

[GothTalk]

Don't see any way to teach it without historical facts.

That doesn't make it factual itself.


Why not just teach the facts and leave all the hatred for whitey out of it????

Because you racist can't do it.....Democrats gotta Democrat.

 

[LittleDixie]

Teaching about the Civil Rights movement, the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, the Japanese-American camps during the 1940s, or even Martin Luther King is now "Critical Race Theory" and is illegal. Teachers are now supposed to pretend these things never happened, or worse, that they were somehow justified and okay.

I know this sounds like a non-sequitur, but this is the problem you get with public schools. If we abolished public schools and gave people their tax money back to do with as they please, then people would be able to start their own schools, or join up with schools that shared their values.

Besides, what do you expect from a government school? What benefit would it be if the government taught the kids that the government has a long history of really shady deals? No, they want to keep the pledge of alliegance and teach all of the good stuff about the United States. They want to inject the most pro-government views on the kids they can think of. It's only recently that the anti-white stuff has become a major factor. The "feel bad about your race" push is more of a demoralizing feature of the Left.

 

[pecksniff]

What benefit would it be if the government taught the kids that the government has a long history of really shady deals?

I'll bite, what?

We're certainly not now at a cultural point where confidence in government is as high and as automatic as it was in the 1950s.