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  8:59 pm
Commenter: Anonymous

Focus on Learning Loss, not unmeasurable "culture"!
 

Covid forced our students and teachers to put their education and jobs on hold.  During this time, nefarious "agents of change" snuck their political ideology into our schools under the noses of school systems, school boards, admins, teachers, students and parents.  Thankfully, virtual school gave parents a window into the daily teachings of our kids' schooling.  The result was a total upheaval of the state government. 

 

Leave our teachers alone!  Their jobs are unimaginably difficult.  They are not just expected to teach, but mandated to essentially raise other people's children for them.  Now you are going to measure their worthiness and job performance based on a nebulous variable known as "cultural competency"?  Who determines the definition of culture?  Who determines whether someone's "competency" is adequate?  This seems ripe for abuse.  This is a clear over correction on the part of Ralph Northam for his racist past.  Now we all have to pay for his mistakes.  

 

Do the right thing......don't do it.  

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