Virginia Parents Worry About Proposed Changes To Story Standards Slippery Slope

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The Virginia Board of Education has delayed public hearings on its new draft history standards, which supporters say will provide a fuller and fairer picture of America’s past. State law requires that the standards be updated at least every seven years. The revisions to the 2015 history and social studies standards began under former Gov. Ralph Northam, D., with input from experts in Native American, African American, Asian American and Hispanic history, among other cultures. Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow believes there are deficiencies in the proposed updates that need to be addressed first.
“We’re on our way to having the best standards in the country, and I don’t want any of us to settle for anything less,” Balow said.
YOUNGKIN BLASTS EDUCATIONAL PROPOSALS VIRGINIA TRY TO USE GEORGE WASHINGTON AS OUR “FATHER” For example, Balow criticized the draft standards for using the word “succession” instead of “secession” and further referred to the removal of the title “Father of our Country” for George Washington and the title “Father of the Constitution” for James Madison. . The Department for Education said it was an “unintentional” mistake. Facimile of The Constitution For The United States Of America dated September 17, 1787. (Fotosearch/Getty Images) Parents told Fox News Digital their concerns about the initial proposed changes. “As a parent I am appalled at the stupidity of even thinking about removing the nomenclature, ‘George Washington, Father of our Country’ and ‘James Madison, Father of our Constitution.’ I am grateful for the five new members of the Virginia Board of Education who put the brakes on the goal of passing these disastrous ‘updates’ to the Virginia State history curriculum,” said Elizabeth McCauley of Virginia Mavens. He added that schools should be more concerned about improving literacy rates across the state. “Editing and removing history is a slippery slope,” he continued. “We parents stand behind Governor Youngkin who has stated that students should be taught all of history! What further concerns me are the low literacy rates in Fairfax County. Why are we spending even one second on this nonsense of rewriting history as it will only lead to further confusion for children, removal of truth and facts and an open door to indoctrination rather than education. come to light.” Virginia Mavens founder Tyler Ohta was equally offended, agreeing with Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R., that “the whole story still needs to be learned.” “Without our founder and first president, Virginia’s own George Washington, there would be no United States of America, so it is abominable (sic) that even stripping him of his title as ‘The Father of our Country’ could be considered » from Virginia. State curriculum,” Ohta told Fox News Digital. “Our greatest achievement, the longest-lasting Constitution in the history of the world, was largely the result of the work of our ‘Father of the Constitution,’ James Madison. If we do not teach our children their own history, we are no better than the Marxists who want to see our culture destroyed through the nullification of culture and the erasure of history.” FOX NEWS POLL: SCHOOLS, ECONOMY DRIVE CLOSE VIRGINIA GOVERNOR’S RACE Atif Qarni, a former deputy education minister under Northam, defended the proposals in an interview with VPM News. He argued that the current history curriculum in Virginia does not provide enough detail about marginalized groups in the US, such as the history of Chinese Americans. Current standards, he said, only state that Chinese Americans played a role in building the railroads.
“When students are taken away from an entire K-12 curriculum and the biggest contribution Asian Americans have made has been in the railroad industry … that hurts,” Qarni said. “It doesn’t give a holistic perspective of the Asian American diaspora and experiences throughout American history, and it doesn’t for other groups either.” Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a history professor at Norfolk State University, recommended adding details about the history of black lynching to the standards. “There’s a mythology that Virginia didn’t have too many lynchings, that it was somehow inferior to the South, which of course wasn’t true at all. But that was the mythology that was built into the history of Virginia,” he said. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, center, signs executive orders in the Governor’s Conference Room as Lt. Gen. Winsom Earle-Shears, left, Susan Youngkin, second from left, Attorney General Jason Miares, second from right, and Commonwealth Secretary Kay Cole James, right, look at the Capitol on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) Newby-Alexander said she engaged with students while helping draft the proposed changes and found they would welcome revisions because currently history classes focus too much on wars. “I think a long time ago, there were these thoughts that if we talked about these wars, it would build patriotism,” he told VPM News. “And actually, what it does is it creates a lot of complacency about the story.” Some parents took issue with additional pages of the 400-page draft document beyond those related to patriotism. Harry Jackson, a parent advocate with Parents for Education, found fault on page 18, noting the change from “good citizenship” to “responsible citizenship” and arguing that it’s part of an effort to promote “non-academic issues of social justice . “ “The change from ‘good’ to ‘responsible’ is important because a responsible person, by definition, has an obligation to act or care for others,” Jackson told Fox News Digital. “This is part of their broader strategy in our nation’s culture wars, teaching children that they have a responsibility to value diversity in terms of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity. This shift in social studies the curriculum will be used to promote non-academic social justice issues regarding forced speech to use the preferred pronoun as well as the responsibility to affirm one’s chosen gender identity.” FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD CRIMES FOR ‘COMPARATIVE’, ‘UNSCIENTIFIC’ MEMORANDUM ON MASKING Virginia has seen a parent revolt over the past two years, with parents increasingly upset with local school boards across the state over progressive curriculum, strict COVID-19 mandates and more. Several voters already disenchanted with Democrat Terry McAuliffe said he drove the nail in the coffin of his campaign during his debate with Youngkin when he said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what to teach.” Concerned community members and parents line up outside the Loudoun County School District headquarters to voice their concerns about the Critical Race Theory and other education issues on the docket, in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., June 22, 2021. (REUTERS (Evelyn Hockstein) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP On his first day in office, Youngkin issued an executive order to “end the use of inherently divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, and raise academic standards.” Wednesday marked the first time the state board of education met with the new members appointed by Youngin. Cortney O’Brien is a contributing editor at Fox News. Twitter: @obrienc2

title: “Virginia Parents Worry About Proposed Changes To Story Standards Slippery Slope Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-30” author: “Vera Presley”

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The Virginia Board of Education has delayed public hearings on its new draft history standards, which supporters say will provide a fuller and fairer picture of America’s past. State law requires that the standards be updated at least every seven years. The revisions to the 2015 history and social studies standards began under former Gov. Ralph Northam, D., with input from experts in Native American, African American, Asian American and Hispanic history, among other cultures. Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow believes there are deficiencies in the proposed updates that need to be addressed first.
“We’re on our way to having the best standards in the country, and I don’t want any of us to settle for anything less,” Balow said.
YOUNGKIN BLASTS EDUCATIONAL PROPOSALS VIRGINIA TRY TO USE GEORGE WASHINGTON AS OUR “FATHER” For example, Balow criticized the draft standards for using the word “succession” instead of “secession” and further referred to the removal of the title “Father of our Country” for George Washington and the title “Father of the Constitution” for James Madison. . The Department for Education said it was an “unintentional” mistake. Facimile of The Constitution For The United States Of America dated September 17, 1787. (Fotosearch/Getty Images) Parents told Fox News Digital their concerns about the initial proposed changes. “As a parent I am appalled at the stupidity of even thinking about removing the nomenclature, ‘George Washington, Father of our Country’ and ‘James Madison, Father of our Constitution.’ I am grateful for the five new members of the Virginia Board of Education who put the brakes on the goal of passing these disastrous ‘updates’ to the Virginia State history curriculum,” said Elizabeth McCauley of Virginia Mavens. He added that schools should be more concerned about improving literacy rates across the state. “Editing and removing history is a slippery slope,” he continued. “We parents stand behind Governor Youngkin who has stated that students should be taught all of history! What further concerns me are the low literacy rates in Fairfax County. Why are we spending even one second on this nonsense of rewriting history as it will only lead to further confusion for children, removal of truth and facts and an open door to indoctrination rather than education. come to light.” Virginia Mavens founder Tyler Ohta was equally offended, agreeing with Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R., that “the whole story still needs to be learned.” “Without our founder and first president, Virginia’s own George Washington, there would be no United States of America, so it is abominable (sic) that even stripping him of his title as ‘The Father of our Country’ could be considered » from Virginia. State curriculum,” Ohta told Fox News Digital. “Our greatest achievement, the longest-lasting Constitution in the history of the world, was largely the result of the work of our ‘Father of the Constitution,’ James Madison. If we do not teach our children their own history, we are no better than the Marxists who want to see our culture destroyed through the nullification of culture and the erasure of history.” FOX NEWS POLL: SCHOOLS, ECONOMY DRIVE CLOSE VIRGINIA GOVERNOR’S RACE Atif Qarni, a former deputy education minister under Northam, defended the proposals in an interview with VPM News. He argued that the current history curriculum in Virginia does not provide enough detail about marginalized groups in the US, such as the history of Chinese Americans. Current standards, he said, only state that Chinese Americans played a role in building the railroads.
“When students are taken away from an entire K-12 curriculum and the biggest contribution Asian Americans have made has been in the railroad industry … that hurts,” Qarni said. “It doesn’t give a holistic perspective of the Asian American diaspora and experiences throughout American history, and it doesn’t for other groups either.” Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a history professor at Norfolk State University, recommended adding details about the history of black lynching to the standards. “There’s a mythology that Virginia didn’t have too many lynchings, that it was somehow inferior to the South, which of course wasn’t true at all. But that was the mythology that was built into the history of Virginia,” he said. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, center, signs executive orders in the Governor’s Conference Room as Lt. Gen. Winsom Earle-Shears, left, Susan Youngkin, second from left, Attorney General Jason Miares, second from right, and Commonwealth Secretary Kay Cole James, right, look at the Capitol on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) Newby-Alexander said she engaged with students while helping draft the proposed changes and found they would welcome revisions because currently history classes focus too much on wars. “I think a long time ago, there were these thoughts that if we talked about these wars, it would build patriotism,” he told VPM News. “And actually, what it does is it creates a lot of complacency about the story.” Some parents took issue with additional pages of the 400-page draft document beyond those related to patriotism. Harry Jackson, a parent advocate with Parents for Education, found fault on page 18, noting the change from “good citizenship” to “responsible citizenship” and arguing that it’s part of an effort to promote “non-academic issues of social justice . “ “The change from ‘good’ to ‘responsible’ is important because a responsible person, by definition, has an obligation to act or care for others,” Jackson told Fox News Digital. “This is part of their broader strategy in our nation’s culture wars, teaching children that they have a responsibility to value diversity in terms of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity. This shift in social studies the curriculum will be used to promote non-academic social justice issues regarding forced speech to use the preferred pronoun as well as the responsibility to affirm one’s chosen gender identity.” FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD CRIMES FOR ‘COMPARATIVE’, ‘UNSCIENTIFIC’ MEMORANDUM ON MASKING Virginia has seen a parent revolt over the past two years, with parents increasingly upset with local school boards across the state over progressive curriculum, strict COVID-19 mandates and more. Several voters already disenchanted with Democrat Terry McAuliffe said he drove the nail in the coffin of his campaign during his debate with Youngkin when he said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what to teach.” Concerned community members and parents line up outside the Loudoun County School District headquarters to voice their concerns about the Critical Race Theory and other education issues on the docket, in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., June 22, 2021. (REUTERS (Evelyn Hockstein) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP On his first day in office, Youngkin issued an executive order to “end the use of inherently divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, and raise academic standards.” Wednesday marked the first time the state board of education met with the new members appointed by Youngin. Cortney O’Brien is a contributing editor at Fox News. Twitter: @obrienc2

title: “Virginia Parents Worry About Proposed Changes To Story Standards Slippery Slope Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-01” author: “Gilberto Lahey”

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The Virginia Board of Education has delayed public hearings on its new draft history standards, which supporters say will provide a fuller and fairer picture of America’s past. State law requires that the standards be updated at least every seven years. The revisions to the 2015 history and social studies standards began under former Gov. Ralph Northam, D., with input from experts in Native American, African American, Asian American and Hispanic history, among other cultures. Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow believes there are deficiencies in the proposed updates that need to be addressed first.
“We’re on our way to having the best standards in the country, and I don’t want any of us to settle for anything less,” Balow said.
YOUNGKIN BLASTS EDUCATIONAL PROPOSALS VIRGINIA TRY TO USE GEORGE WASHINGTON AS OUR “FATHER” For example, Balow criticized the draft standards for using the word “succession” instead of “secession” and further referred to the removal of the title “Father of our Country” for George Washington and the title “Father of the Constitution” for James Madison. . The Department for Education said it was an “unintentional” mistake. Facimile of The Constitution For The United States Of America dated September 17, 1787. (Fotosearch/Getty Images) Parents told Fox News Digital their concerns about the initial proposed changes. “As a parent I am appalled at the stupidity of even thinking about removing the nomenclature, ‘George Washington, Father of our Country’ and ‘James Madison, Father of our Constitution.’ I am grateful for the five new members of the Virginia Board of Education who put the brakes on the goal of passing these disastrous ‘updates’ to the Virginia State history curriculum,” said Elizabeth McCauley of Virginia Mavens. He added that schools should be more concerned about improving literacy rates across the state. “Editing and removing history is a slippery slope,” he continued. “We parents stand behind Governor Youngkin who has stated that students should be taught all of history! What further concerns me are the low literacy rates in Fairfax County. Why are we spending even one second on this nonsense of rewriting history as it will only lead to further confusion for children, removal of truth and facts and an open door to indoctrination rather than education. come to light.” Virginia Mavens founder Tyler Ohta was equally offended, agreeing with Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R., that “the whole story still needs to be learned.” “Without our founder and first president, Virginia’s own George Washington, there would be no United States of America, so it is abominable (sic) that even stripping him of his title as ‘The Father of our Country’ could be considered » from Virginia. State curriculum,” Ohta told Fox News Digital. “Our greatest achievement, the longest-lasting Constitution in the history of the world, was largely the result of the work of our ‘Father of the Constitution,’ James Madison. If we do not teach our children their own history, we are no better than the Marxists who want to see our culture destroyed through the nullification of culture and the erasure of history.” FOX NEWS POLL: SCHOOLS, ECONOMY DRIVE CLOSE VIRGINIA GOVERNOR’S RACE Atif Qarni, a former deputy education minister under Northam, defended the proposals in an interview with VPM News. He argued that the current history curriculum in Virginia does not provide enough detail about marginalized groups in the US, such as the history of Chinese Americans. Current standards, he said, only state that Chinese Americans played a role in building the railroads.
“When students are taken away from an entire K-12 curriculum and the biggest contribution Asian Americans have made has been in the railroad industry … that hurts,” Qarni said. “It doesn’t give a holistic perspective of the Asian American diaspora and experiences throughout American history, and it doesn’t for other groups either.” Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a history professor at Norfolk State University, recommended adding details about the history of black lynching to the standards. “There’s a mythology that Virginia didn’t have too many lynchings, that it was somehow inferior to the South, which of course wasn’t true at all. But that was the mythology that was built into the history of Virginia,” he said. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, center, signs executive orders in the Governor’s Conference Room as Lt. Gen. Winsom Earle-Shears, left, Susan Youngkin, second from left, Attorney General Jason Miares, second from right, and Commonwealth Secretary Kay Cole James, right, look at the Capitol on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) Newby-Alexander said she engaged with students while helping draft the proposed changes and found they would welcome revisions because currently history classes focus too much on wars. “I think a long time ago, there were these thoughts that if we talked about these wars, it would build patriotism,” he told VPM News. “And actually, what it does is it creates a lot of complacency about the story.” Some parents took issue with additional pages of the 400-page draft document beyond those related to patriotism. Harry Jackson, a parent advocate with Parents for Education, found fault on page 18, noting the change from “good citizenship” to “responsible citizenship” and arguing that it’s part of an effort to promote “non-academic issues of social justice . “ “The change from ‘good’ to ‘responsible’ is important because a responsible person, by definition, has an obligation to act or care for others,” Jackson told Fox News Digital. “This is part of their broader strategy in our nation’s culture wars, teaching children that they have a responsibility to value diversity in terms of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity. This shift in social studies the curriculum will be used to promote non-academic social justice issues regarding forced speech to use the preferred pronoun as well as the responsibility to affirm one’s chosen gender identity.” FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD CRIMES FOR ‘COMPARATIVE’, ‘UNSCIENTIFIC’ MEMORANDUM ON MASKING Virginia has seen a parent revolt over the past two years, with parents increasingly upset with local school boards across the state over progressive curriculum, strict COVID-19 mandates and more. Several voters already disenchanted with Democrat Terry McAuliffe said he drove the nail in the coffin of his campaign during his debate with Youngkin when he said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what to teach.” Concerned community members and parents line up outside the Loudoun County School District headquarters to voice their concerns about the Critical Race Theory and other education issues on the docket, in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., June 22, 2021. (REUTERS (Evelyn Hockstein) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP On his first day in office, Youngkin issued an executive order to “end the use of inherently divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, and raise academic standards.” Wednesday marked the first time the state board of education met with the new members appointed by Youngin. Cortney O’Brien is a contributing editor at Fox News. Twitter: @obrienc2

title: “Virginia Parents Worry About Proposed Changes To Story Standards Slippery Slope Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-24” author: “Sergio Tibolla”

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The Virginia Board of Education has delayed public hearings on its new draft history standards, which supporters say will provide a fuller and fairer picture of America’s past. State law requires that the standards be updated at least every seven years. The revisions to the 2015 history and social studies standards began under former Gov. Ralph Northam, D., with input from experts in Native American, African American, Asian American and Hispanic history, among other cultures. Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow believes there are deficiencies in the proposed updates that need to be addressed first.
“We’re on our way to having the best standards in the country, and I don’t want any of us to settle for anything less,” Balow said.
YOUNGKIN BLASTS EDUCATIONAL PROPOSALS VIRGINIA TRY TO USE GEORGE WASHINGTON AS OUR “FATHER” For example, Balow criticized the draft standards for using the word “succession” instead of “secession” and further referred to the removal of the title “Father of our Country” for George Washington and the title “Father of the Constitution” for James Madison. . The Department for Education said it was an “unintentional” mistake. Facimile of The Constitution For The United States Of America dated September 17, 1787. (Fotosearch/Getty Images) Parents told Fox News Digital their concerns about the initial proposed changes. “As a parent I am appalled at the stupidity of even thinking about removing the nomenclature, ‘George Washington, Father of our Country’ and ‘James Madison, Father of our Constitution.’ I am grateful for the five new members of the Virginia Board of Education who put the brakes on the goal of passing these disastrous ‘updates’ to the Virginia State history curriculum,” said Elizabeth McCauley of Virginia Mavens. He added that schools should be more concerned about improving literacy rates across the state. “Editing and removing history is a slippery slope,” he continued. “We parents stand behind Governor Youngkin who has stated that students should be taught all of history! What further concerns me are the low literacy rates in Fairfax County. Why are we spending even one second on this nonsense of rewriting history as it will only lead to further confusion for children, removal of truth and facts and an open door to indoctrination rather than education. come to light.” Virginia Mavens founder Tyler Ohta was equally offended, agreeing with Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R., that “the whole story still needs to be learned.” “Without our founder and first president, Virginia’s own George Washington, there would be no United States of America, so it is abominable (sic) that even stripping him of his title as ‘The Father of our Country’ could be considered » from Virginia. State curriculum,” Ohta told Fox News Digital. “Our greatest achievement, the longest-lasting Constitution in the history of the world, was largely the result of the work of our ‘Father of the Constitution,’ James Madison. If we do not teach our children their own history, we are no better than the Marxists who want to see our culture destroyed through the nullification of culture and the erasure of history.” FOX NEWS POLL: SCHOOLS, ECONOMY DRIVE CLOSE VIRGINIA GOVERNOR’S RACE Atif Qarni, a former deputy education minister under Northam, defended the proposals in an interview with VPM News. He argued that the current history curriculum in Virginia does not provide enough detail about marginalized groups in the US, such as the history of Chinese Americans. Current standards, he said, only state that Chinese Americans played a role in building the railroads.
“When students are taken away from an entire K-12 curriculum and the biggest contribution Asian Americans have made has been in the railroad industry … that hurts,” Qarni said. “It doesn’t give a holistic perspective of the Asian American diaspora and experiences throughout American history, and it doesn’t for other groups either.” Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a history professor at Norfolk State University, recommended adding details about the history of black lynching to the standards. “There’s a mythology that Virginia didn’t have too many lynchings, that it was somehow inferior to the South, which of course wasn’t true at all. But that was the mythology that was built into the history of Virginia,” he said. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, center, signs executive orders in the Governor’s Conference Room as Lt. Gen. Winsom Earle-Shears, left, Susan Youngkin, second from left, Attorney General Jason Miares, second from right, and Commonwealth Secretary Kay Cole James, right, look at the Capitol on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) Newby-Alexander said she engaged with students while helping draft the proposed changes and found they would welcome revisions because currently history classes focus too much on wars. “I think a long time ago, there were these thoughts that if we talked about these wars, it would build patriotism,” he told VPM News. “And actually, what it does is it creates a lot of complacency about the story.” Some parents took issue with additional pages of the 400-page draft document beyond those related to patriotism. Harry Jackson, a parent advocate with Parents for Education, found fault on page 18, noting the change from “good citizenship” to “responsible citizenship” and arguing that it’s part of an effort to promote “non-academic issues of social justice . “ “The change from ‘good’ to ‘responsible’ is important because a responsible person, by definition, has an obligation to act or care for others,” Jackson told Fox News Digital. “This is part of their broader strategy in our nation’s culture wars, teaching children that they have a responsibility to value diversity in terms of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity. This shift in social studies the curriculum will be used to promote non-academic social justice issues regarding forced speech to use the preferred pronoun as well as the responsibility to affirm one’s chosen gender identity.” FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD CRIMES FOR ‘COMPARATIVE’, ‘UNSCIENTIFIC’ MEMORANDUM ON MASKING Virginia has seen a parent revolt over the past two years, with parents increasingly upset with local school boards across the state over progressive curriculum, strict COVID-19 mandates and more. Several voters already disenchanted with Democrat Terry McAuliffe said he drove the nail in the coffin of his campaign during his debate with Youngkin when he said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what to teach.” Concerned community members and parents line up outside the Loudoun County School District headquarters to voice their concerns about the Critical Race Theory and other education issues on the docket, in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., June 22, 2021. (REUTERS (Evelyn Hockstein) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP On his first day in office, Youngkin issued an executive order to “end the use of inherently divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, and raise academic standards.” Wednesday marked the first time the state board of education met with the new members appointed by Youngin. Cortney O’Brien is a contributing editor at Fox News. Twitter: @obrienc2