Youngkin's snitch on a teacher hotline & other fascist shit

[Nevilledog]

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“Youngkin also touted a tip line for parents to report to the state any school officials they find to be behaving objectionably — including teaching ‘divisive’ subjects” https://washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/24/youngkin-virginia-mask-mandates-ban/…
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5:45 PM · Jan 24, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/24/youngkin-virginia-mask-mandates-ban/

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But Youngkin, who took office promising to govern “for all Virginians,” has otherwise struck an increasingly partisan tone. Public sentiment toward mask mandates is “moving against the left liberals,” he said Monday to Fredericks, who was Donald Trump’s Virginia presidential campaign chairman in 2016 and 2020.

In the interview, Youngkin also touted a tip line for parents to report to the state any school officials they find to be behaving objectionably — including teaching “divisive” subjects. Youngkin has issued an executive order and is backing legislation that seeks to ban concepts such as critical race theory, an academic construct about the history of systemic racism.

“We’re asking for folks to send us reports and observations,” Youngkin said, “help us be aware of … their child being denied their rights that parents have in Virginia, and we’re going to make sure we catalogue it all. … And that gives us further, further ability to make sure we’re rooting it out.”

Youngkin told Fredericks that 25 of Virginia’s 130 school districts have challenged his ban on mask mandates. According to a Washington Post tally, though, 58 of the state’s districts have either filed suit or pledged to keep a mask mandate in place. Youngkin’s office conceded that its figure, based on news reports and not a survey of all districts, was probably low.

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[LoisB]

1. ..and when there is no longer any teachers (at least none worth anything) in Virginia,

who is going to teach little Johnnie? Maybe they'll just start mixing church and school and little Johnnie can learn everything he needs to know from the Bible.

[dalton99a]

2. He is auditioning for the 2024 ticket

[LENNY0229]

3. Virginians will have to decide if they want this facist shit or not. Simple as that.

[slightlv]

4. When there are no more teachers,

the Repubs will have achieved their desired goal of killing the public school system. From that point on, if you want your child educated you will need to pay to enroll him/her/them into the appropriate private school. These schools, of course, will not be cheap. They also will not be attuned to a well-rounded education. They WILL be attuned toward indoctrination to the right wing way of thinking and acting, with special emphasis on the deficits of left wing thinking. And, of course, religion... of the RIGHT kind... will be taught overtly and covertly.

Covid, CRT, and the Me, Too movements gave them the ultimate openings to achieve rapidly what they could only have hoped to achieve within the next couple of decades. Thus, we see them killing us, killing each other, killing our institutions, and killing our country... not to mention the Earth, Herself.

[Nevilledog]

5. Red state kids will be ignorant, blue state kids won't.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Turn it against him. Make calls against Republican state legislators on the hot tip.

[Solly Mack]

7. I hope the non-stupid parents are planning to sue as their children are being denied a

fact-based education.

[cbabe]

8. Call and report the Constitution and the Bible and Shakespeare... you get the drift.

[smb]

9. I'm Filing A Report, But I Don't Expect It To Go Anywhere

I mean, I'm still waiting for a response from the time I called Trump's "illegal alien" hotline to report an alien I saw stealing laundry from a clothesline. You'd think the guy would be easy to catch, what with the distinctive mechanical rice picker damage to his ears, but apparently not....

[Trailrider1951]

11. Holy shit, that's funny!

Best flashback I've read in a while!

[Hugin]

10. Ooo... An 'enemies list'. How novel...

NOT!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Black parents need to flood these tip lines with complaints about our history being silenced

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