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  6:08 pm
Commenter: Anonymous

Please Focus on What Matters
 

If teachers could teach boys as well as girls for decades because sex doesn’t matter, teachers still can teach every child just as effectively, no matter what their sexual orientation is. Teachers are already exhausted, underpaid, and need our support now more than ever. Making them go through a program that, while is an important thing for citizens to think about, is really unrelated to their teaching skills and distract them from their jobs. This is why public schools cost tax-payers tremendous amount of money; programs that don’t really benefit teachers or students at the end of the day, no matter how wonderful they sound in theory. And American students only fall further and further behind their international peers. Please. Stop. It. 

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