While greater emphasis on areas such as emotional intelligence would be a welcome addition to a public school education, this action will undoubtedly serve as a means to indoctrinate children into a particular worldview. Given recent precedent established by other, largely, equity-based initiatives, Virginia has not earned the trust of its citizens to implement such a broad scale effort fairly. In particular, despite the multiple references to diverse perspectives, Virginians have no reason to believe that truly diverse perspectives reflecting diversity of thought will be welcome. On the contrary, as underscored by the lack of definition of what would be considered diverse, it is reasonable to assume that what this actually refers to is the same set of "acceptable" opinions held by people who's diversity is completely tied to immutable characteristics.

I've noted that there is not a single reference to objectivity or any other reasonable standard through which a person may evaluate and outcome. Further, it seems that "facts" are not worthy of consideration until high school, well after the students have been effectively brainwashed to ignore those facts that conflict with the prescribed worldview. Exacerbating the issue, the standards state outright that it goal is for student's to "evaluate outcomes based on one's own identity." To teach a subjective evaluation of outcomes based on people with the same identity are supposed to view the world is outright irresponsible and confirms the belief that this is about indoctrinating children into what they are supposed to think.

This entire initiative should be rejected until it can be demonstrated to be implementable without bias.