To him it may concern 

The parents and communities of the state of Virginia voted to remove all liberal woke policies from our schools and communities. You must not add this measure for our teachers. This is a prejudice practice and divisive in our classrooms and in our Commonwealth. We are loosing so many good teachers due to this type of abuse. 

If teachers feel the need to have cultural training, it should be left up to them to seek this out for themselves and for their own professional development. Making this a requirement for licensure and renewal is unnecessary. It will also add to the booming Mandate economy due to covid and CRT. If we as a people have learned anything these past two years it's that Mandates and forcing people to do something enmass doesn't work.

This is not necessary! Especially since you call it SEL but it’s really CRT causing children to apologize for the color of their skin and become activists. We all bleed red and we should be bringing people together instead of creating a divide. Nothing that this BIden administration has put forth in regards to education is normal!! Look up the ED Covid 19 Handbooks, 1 & 2 spell out how the US Department of Ed calls it “inclusive and equitable” however it’s filled with segregation and decisive strategies to brainwash the children. It’s an absolute disgrace! Leave the children and teachers alone with this propaganda. ALL LIVES MATTER. 

Please eliminate all Cultural Competency Requirements and trainings. We need to get our kids reading, writing, doing arithmetic and learning history and science and enough of the nonsense! . 

CCT is CRT in Drag!  This must stop!  It’s dividing the Country, the State, and Localities.  

Politics and racism have no part in the classroom...and using my tax dollars to train teachers to train teachers to teach this to students is a terrible idea. Train teachers to teach our students...not indoctrinate our students.

Approve teachers on their competence. Not their cultural programs that you are pushing on these people. It's about learning stop your indoctrination you are sickening people. In your efforts you're forcing a divided within children and within this Society. Take this bill destroy it and immediately resign for those who are in support of it.

Stop the division! You are using teachers to further your anti-racist rhetoric! Leave our teachers and children out of this, you are destroying our society. 

Cultural competency, SEL, CRT...its all the same side of the same coin!! You will get this racist indoctrination out of our schools immediately. This is unacceptable! You are an utter disgrace to society!

Let the teachers teach with no added instruction  regarding crt, our children need to be children, not indoctrinated. This is a terrible idea for ALL. 

This is wrong ! We are all equal stop the hate and division !

This is beyond ridiculous .

This is beyond ridiculous .

stop it 

We are one we are equal stop creating division and hate!

We are one we are equal stop creating division and hate!

Stop pushing hate onto our children.  Stop pushing to divide us.  Stop using KKK and BLM talking points. 

We need to teach students we are united. That we are equal - completely equal no special treatment for a special culture. The harder you try to push inclusion you create separation. 

The culturally responsive and inclusive curriculum, along with the suggested mandatory teacher requirement to learn how to deliver it to our children Must Not Stand!  The Superintendent was tasked with identifying all divisive teachings and This qualifies and needs to be Sticken from any proposal or policy immediately. 

These diversity trainings are some of the most bigoted and generalized workshops you could imagine. We don’t need to spend more time or money hiring woke grifters to shove their grievance politics down our throats.

Treat others as you want to be treated. There, I just saved you millions.

Stop the hate and division ! We are all EQUAL ! We are one nation under God !

The voters of the Commonwealth have spoken with a unified voice to *reject* all attempts to impose CRT ideals upon teachers and our public education system. Virginians reject racist, divisive ideology. Do NOT now ignore this mandate by adding a regulatory mandate requiring all educators be marinated in this archaic, evil, discriminatory methodology. Ignore the taxpayers and voters who rejected this racist indoctrination at your professional peril.

If TRUE history was actually being taught and not this inclusive crap that is doing nothing but causing more division along us, people might actually learn to not see color.  They would learn from our ancestors what not to do.  We are all equal, not all of us see color.  These teachings though point out the differences and do nothing but intensify the racism in this country!!

There is no subject matter on the actual licensure. What type of cultural testing would be presented. For this reason I would discourage it. Thank you. 

No matter how it’s titled, this type of teaching is divisive and should never be taught in any school.

Absolutely NO as this is divisive and sets race relations back years!!!!

Let’s focus on educating our kids in reading, writing and mathematics. Give training to help expand real education instead of division!

You guys have lost your marbles. STOP THIS NONSENSE. It’s gross. I can’t wait to get rid of all of you. 

Until you stop teaching that someone is better than another in ANY WAY, bigotry will continue running rampant in this country! There are terrible people ieverywhere. There are fantastic people everywhere! Judge character, nothing else matters!

Cultural Competency? You mean training teachers to treat kids differently based on their skin color? No thank you!! Kids can barely read, write, and do math yet they are being advanced to the next grade level. Teachers don’t even have enough time to teach the basics. Teachers should not be forced to become social justice warriors.

What is cultural competency anyway? Our children need to read competently, they need to calculate math competently and am I asking to much to have them investigate and explore problems and come up with THEIR OWN conclusions. A so called teacher does not need cultural competency to teach children. They just need to love children, knowledge, and learning.

Cultural competency yes, CRT NO! Teachers should not be indoctrinated with political and ideological material that they then teach to children. Any training that includes information along the lines of critical race theory is not only politically biased but divisive and harmful to not only children but our nation. Educators should recieve training that is unbiased and reflects the academic, emotional and social well being of all children. 

Please STOP the madness!  No good has come out of this.  I've been in education for over 28 years and we keep lowering the bar and making excuses for children.  Let's focus on 4 core values- respect, accountability, honesty, and responsibility.  

Thank you.

Cultural competency is NOT CRT.  CRT has been such a distracting 'squirrel tactic' to what is intended to increase an educators knowledge and appreciation of other cultures beyond their own.  A truly fully inclusive learning environment can only be achieved by a culturally competent educator.  To be culturally competent in no way results in a decline in quality of instruction, but instead enhances it as students and teachers can build better connections and greater engagement within the learning environment.

The more racially propagated agenda that you push, the more racial division you create. Who determines what is included in the cultural competency curriculum and have those individuals been properly vetted by a bipartisan panel? This amendment is inappropriate, unnecessary and has nothing to do with student achievement. Stop failing our students by giving tools to educators that create division and mistrust in the system. 

I totally believe that the schools could find programs that need this funding more. Arts, sports, heck even maintenance to the grounds would better than this.

Absolutely should not happen. I am not in favor of this. This only dumbs down education , doesn’t challenge these young minds. 

Cultural competency should not be part of teacher licensure.  Who determines what is cultural competent?  There are so many cultures across the world and many cultures can be within races.  We need to get back to basics and focus on actually ensuring our teachers can teach our students without political biases.  Ensuring they can simply teach the subject and create an environment where our students strive for excellence.

I think it is time to defund every school board member, admin personal and teacher who thinks this is worthy of tax payer dollars. We are coming after every single one of you legally.there is NO stopping us! You started this we will make certain you NEVER hold office again. We will eliminate every teacher and give their pension to the needy since they are so privileged to teach such gibberish when all we wanted was Math, English, History, and Science. We even allow art!! It's time you move on from this racist garbage. If you do maybe we will leave you alone..... maybe.

There should be no cultural competency training. There are certain things that need to be taught by the parents. We must give the respect and responsibility back to the parents. To open a child's mind to such subjects is harmful to the young innocent minds of our youth. There innocence is steadily being taken away and by many who claim they believe in Jesus. Each one of you have taken an oath to serve Virginia under the Constitution of Virginia, but for those who did swear, “so help me God”. Please think of the higher ways and thoughts of the God you swore too!  We must not leave God out nor His standards for they push us to be better people. 

Please “pass/kill” the bill on the cultural training. 

Sincerely praying for Virginia to return to the characteristic of her name which means Virginal and Pure. 

Thank you for your time and patience. 

What exactly does cultural competency mean? It could mean anything you want.  No to CRT. 

This should not be in our schools! I will teach this at home. You should be teaching writing, math, science TRUE HISTORIACAL FACTS not opinions etc. Keep CRT out of our schools. You can call it something different but the meaning is the same. 

All these “trainings” do is further divide us and leads to more racism. End the “woke” policies now! 

You can only be culturally competent if you include ALL cultures including but not limited to: 

Australians, Algerians, Germans, French, Italians, Iranian, Syrians, Indians, Nigerians, Ethiopian, Egyptian, Burmese, Puerto Rican, Colombian, Greek, Honduran, Liberian, Swiss, Polish, Japanese, Brazilian, Argentina, Peruvian, Spanish, Turkish,  and the list goes on. If you base your cultural competency requirements only on one race, does that make you culturally insensitive? Stop the madness!! 

Not necessary. 

There is no positive outcome to gain by discriminating for or against any of our citizens, teachers, or school children. Reject Cultural Race & Social Emotional Training or Curriculum As A Whole. 

I support cultural competency training for all staff.

No.  This would be forcing divisive group think upon educators in order for them to even be employable.  

This is America and we will teach history, the good and the bad, but not at the expense of free speech and critical thinking.  

Please vote no to this proposed licensure requirement!

We all know that Cultural Competency is a flowery description of divisive ideals.

Think the teaching profession is slim now? Make it a requirement and more will leave the profession on their laurels. 

This is wrong and divisive. Teachers have enough on their plates without adding more. Teachers need to get kids competent in reading, writing, math, history, and science. Period. Kids today are way behind their counterparts in other countries, because of all the unnecessary junk teachers have to deal with!  What the heck is "cultural competency, anyway???