Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Education
 
Board
State Board of Education
 
Guidance Document Change: The guidance document "Model Policies Concerning Instructional Materials with Sexually Explicit Content" was developed in conjunction with stakeholders in order to comply with SB656 (2022).
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7/16/22  11:30 am
Commenter: JUDITH POWELL

Education not indoctrination by 656
 

Schools should educate not indoctrinate. The purpose of education is to teach an individual to think and evaluate information on a factual basis. An individual needs to learn how to sort out facts from opinions, conjectures and falsehoods. Parents can reframe or counterbalance whatever they take exception to but have no right to censor what children other than their own are given as facts. Only totalitarian states are interested in thought control. Is this what we want in the USA?

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