Virginia governor, Republicans off to a rough start with ban on critical race theory
OPINION: Gov. Glenn Youngkin and other GOP leaders would do well to remember that Virginia is a deeply purple state and they do not have a mandate to run wild with far-right governance.
When I first read it, I did not think it could be real. I thought, “this has to be a parody, right”?
It was not. Va. Del. Wren Williams, a freshman Republican, put forward a bill, House Bill 781, that was intended to ban so-called “divisive concepts” from being taught in Virginia public schools. It is, in short, an “anti-CRT” bill, which was the lynchpin of the Republicans’ path to victory in 2021. Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who was sworn in on Saturday, and Republicans statewide did a masterful job using the local school board rancor on teaching about racial history in Virginia as their No. 1 culture war mantra.
The bill presented by Williams says: “A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22.1-208.03, relating to public elementary and secondary schools; student citizenship skills; certain instructional policies prohibited; parental rights; disclosures; penalties; other remedies.” Section B3 was the part of the bill that defined what could be taught in history classes, not the things that would be banned or the consequences teachers could face for teaching them, including prosecution and being fired.
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