Glenn Youngkin attempts to ban critical race theory on day one as Virginia governor

[Jilly_in_VA]

Virginia’s newly elected Republican governor has immediately passed a swath of conservative orders – ranging from attempts to alter local school curriculums to loosening public health mandates during the pandemic – after being sworn into office on Saturday.

Glenn Youngkin, a former private equity CEO who has never served in public office before, became the state’s first Republican governor since 2010 after a closely watched gubernatorial election last year.

The 55 year-old placed the issue of critical race theory (CRT) at the centre of his campaign, capitalizing on a conservative backlash against the discipline and pledging to ban teaching of it in Virginia’s schools. Critical race theory is an academic practice that examines the ways in which racism operates in US laws and society.

On Saturday, after taking the oath of office, Youngkin unveiled a list of nine executive orders and two executive directives, with the first on the list described as a directive to “restore excellence in education by ending the use of divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, in public education”.

The order lists 13 instructions, many directed to the state’s school superintendent, who has been tasked with reviewing the state’s curriculum and policies within the department of education, to identify “inherently divisive concepts”. The order also bans an executive employee from “directing or otherwise compelling students to personally affirm, adopt, or adhere to inherently divisive concepts”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/16/virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-sworn-into-office-critical-race-theory
_____________________________________________________________________
As Virginia circles the drain.....

[pwb]

1. You can't tell kids not to do something.

Didn't that guy have kids.

[blm]

2. It will be divisive to only teach whitewashed version of

history again. Then students of color and their allies can sue the state and school system for returning to divisive whitewashing of American history.

[Duppers]

4. Indeed.

Let the trials begin.

[Busterscruggs]

3. He will

Try to make the black kids sit in the back of the class next

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. And taking a cue from Roy Moore he dresses up like a cowboy

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. This RWNJ does not have this authority

Link to tweet