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Matt Royer
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Young Demorats of America Comms Director, Virginia YD Executive VP, VA 8th CD Dems, VA Justice Dems Chair, Commissioner, VA Born & Raised, He/Him, (Opinions are mine) Inquiries: [email protected]
As much as we joke, the fact is that #Twitter has been an incredible resource to get 1st person unfiltered statements from politicians, candidates, activists, and organizers. We have had first hand knowledge about events sometimes before the media does. Who knows if we will again.
When I say I gasped during #Pelosi saying that she “enjoyed working with 3 Presidents during her time as Speaker” and then listed them off “Bush, Obama, Biden”, y’all…
The only one in Congress to hold the title "Madam Speaker." You don't have to agree with her on everything to know our Country and Party are indebted to her for her service, leadership, and ability to get the work done...and to know that she was a badass speaker. Thank you, Madame Speaker. #NancyPelosi
If you thought that Mitch McConnell wasn’t beyond self sabotage to oppose and tear apart the Democratic Agenda, then you don’t know Mitch.
If the Democrats put in a bill tomorrow that only white men from Kentucky named Mitch could be in power, he would still vote against it. #politicsUS
- 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 (Virginia's Social Studies Standards)
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...
- 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)
- 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.
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)
It's been 665 days since Donald Trump was president. And he never will be again. #trumpannouncement