Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Education
 
Board
State Board of Education
 
Guidance Document Change: In 2021, the Virginia General Assembly passed House Bill 1904 and Senate Bill 1196, and was signed into law by Governor Northam. The law establishes new requirements to support culturally competent educators in the Commonwealth. The Guidance on Cultural Competency Training for Teachers and Other Licensed School Board Employees in Virginia Public Schools was developed for the Board to fulfill the statutory mandate to provide guidance on the minimum standards for the local training requirement.
Previous Comment     Next Comment     Back to List of Comments
12/19/21  12:59 am
Commenter: Mary Prentice

Against mandatory cultural competence and against critical race divisive ideas pushed by radicals
 

Vote no to cultural competence radical socialist indoctrination.  We know cultural competence pedagogies are at root leftist critical race theory that divide people into two groups, oppressor and oppressed which are hate filled and divisive leftist nonsense.  We are tired in Virginia of socialist radical indoctrination in schools these should be banned it violates idea of equality. As Buffalo schools show cultural responsive teaching is code word for blame whites for everything which is a very racist and discriminatory and a hate filled  idea that violates civil rights and see article by Rufo: 

Buffalo students told ‘all white people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism’

By Christopher F. Rufo

Article shows how damaging cultural responsive hate is —Rufo shows—Last year, in her role as director of the Office of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives, Morrell created a new curriculum promoting Black Lives Matter in the classroom and an “antiracist” training program for teachers. According to one veteran teacher, who requested anonymity, Morrell’s training programs have pushed “radical politics” and, in practice, become a series of “scoldings, guilt-trips, and demands to demean oneself simply to make another feel ‘empowered.’” Teachers must submit to these “manipulative mind games” and express support for Morrell’s left-wing politics, or risk professional retaliation. Morrell, who earned her Ed.D. from the University of Buffalo, said that the solution is to “be woke, which is basically critically conscious,” citing a pedagogical concept developed by Marxist theoretician Paolo Freire holding that students must be trained to identify and eventually overthrow their oppressors. After Morrell’s presentation, one teacher reaffirmed this political imperative, declaring that students must become “activists for antiracism” and public school teachers should begin “preparing them at four years old.”source https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2021/02/24/buffalo-students-told-all-white-people-play-a-part-in-systemic-racism/amp/

This awful book has been embraced by VA DOE Hammond, Z. (2015). Culturally responsive teaching and the brain: Promoting authentic engagement and rigor among culturally and linguistically diverse students. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications this is on recommended list for VA African American course.  VOTE NO to all leftist propaganda of cultural competence and critical race theories that do NOT below in any tax payer supported non partisan schools.  

CommentID: 117320