With new standards draft, critics say Virginia's Youngkin wants to rewrite history

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A number of cultural groups, historians and Virginia residents are sounding the alarm about historical inaccuracies and oversights in the latest draft of history standards for K-12 education in the state proposed last week by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Chief among their frustrations is the draft’s omission of teaching about the ongoing legacy of slavery and the Civil War in Virginia today, as well as LGBTQ history. Critics believe this shows that the governor is using his political power to rewrite history and downplay unsavory episodes in American history.

“The Youngkin administration is proposing revised standards that are racist and factually incorrect,” James J. Fedderman, president of the Virginia Education Association, the state’s largest teachers' union, told Yahoo News. “This attack on these standards continues to be a divisive approach to put parents against teachers and to put teachers against parents.”

Last week’s draft, which has since been slightly revised, removed mention of Martin Luther King Jr. Day from the K-5 standards and made no mention of Juneteenth. Both have since been restored to the draft.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/with-new-standards-draft-critics-say-virginias-youngkin-wants-to-rewrite-history-221349716.html

Does he want to refer to the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression?

[republianmushroom]

1. Well the republican way is to keep them dumb.