Looking at what Governor #Youngkin deems appropriate in response to the #CriticalRaceTheory Craze:
- Removing MLK from the elementary curriculum
- Removing reference to Doug Wilder the first Black Governor, WHO IS STILL ALIVE
- Removing reference to John Mercer Langston, first Black VA Congressman
- Removing all technical edits from the 2020 African American History commission
- Refer to the Indigenous people of Virginia as America's First Immigrants (incredibly insulting and untrue)
- Complex concepts like The Code of Hammurabi are required content for 1st grade
- The new standards removed the African civilization of Mali while expanding ancient European civilizations like Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece. Putting world history in a Eurocentric lens instead of an all inclusive global mindset which greatly limits overall understanding.
- The Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia, and the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are now required content for First Grade.
- Third Graders must learn about “Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony," and other ancient Greeks, and Romans
- The rewrite of the proposed Standards is also full of historical errors and inaccuracies: “Explain the reasons for the relocation of Virginia’s capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg'' as part of the Revolutionary war (when it was actually moved from Williamsburg to Richmond)
- Contributions from the Sikh and the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community have been almost completely eliminated
All of these and more can be found here from the Concerned Educators of the Commonwealth: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZkZJ13NuOPvnRY7J9iQkDe2m4r2TsYKQSXOOx4YjerQ/edit
TL;DR Governor Youngkin would rather score points "defeating the nonexistent epidemic of teaching Critical Race Theory" than to teach Virginia students accurately and improve the test scores he complains about time and time again. #VAPolitics
Press Release by Concerned Educators of the Commonwealth RELEASE DATE: For Immediate Release CONTACT: Concerned Educators of the Commonwealth WHAT: The Rewrite of Virginia’s Proposed History and Social Science Standards WHEN: Thursday, November 17th Board of Education Meeting, Jame...
Matt Royer