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.
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12/7/21  7:13 pm
Commenter: Harry Chernoff

School is for education. This is not education.
 

This is not education.  This is social justice training, social and emotional learning, and inevitably lowering of standards to achieve equity, despite the claim to not lower the standards.

Teach the children reading, writing, and arithmetic.  Teach them STEM.  Teach them civics and history, the good and the bad.  Teach them that most of the world exists outside the United States.  Teach them in terms of equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.  Teach them that homework matters.  Teach them that rigorous standards matter and that they apply equally to everyone.  Teach them to think critically, rationally, objectively, and with an open mind.  Teach them agency - that they are individuals who can think and act like individuals, not members of some opressed or oppressor group that must think and act like members of that group.  Teach them that they can achieve as much as any of their peers if they put in the effort.  Teach them that individual ethnicities will not be singled out for special treatment or special cultural competency.  

Teach them to be proud of themselves, proud of their families, proud of their community, and proud of their country.

 

 

 

 

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