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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12/19/21  6:56 pm
Commenter: Anonymous

Not cultural competency if you are just focusing on African American history.
 

This is just CRT but labeled Cultural Competency.  I don’t have any issue with learning and teaching about American history and focusing on all the various cultures that contributed to this awesome country.  I do have a problem with JUST focusing on African Americans and and tainting all of our history from ONLY their viewpoint.  I also have a problem with teaching kids that because our fore fathers either owned slaves or were too short-sighted to see all Americans, regardless of skin color, should have equal rights  that we shouldn’t celebrate their accomplishments. I.e. fighting to free slaves, freeing America from British rule, etc.  

What I suggest instead is to focus on training and teaching for everyone to be aware of all bias’s (gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, roots, etc.) Teach teachers and students to check their bias’s and understand how these bias’s come into play with interacting with other people.  Continue teaching students about our history, the good, the bad, the ugly and the various cultures as they can to America.  Stop making this all about one culture and tearing down and guilting everyone else.  My family never owned slaves and came from generations of poverty, just like many people in America.  No one gave us anything, we had to work hard for it, just like most people.  Only my generation even had the opportunity to go to college, but we all had to pay our own way, working 20-40 hours a week, all through high school and college and still paying college debt after college.  

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