Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Education
 
Board
State Board of Education
 
Guidance Document Change: In 2021, the Virginia General Assembly passed House Bill 1904 and Senate Bill 1196, and was signed into law by Governor Northam. The law establishes new requirements to support culturally competent educators in the Commonwealth. The Guidance on Cultural Competency Training for Teachers and Other Licensed School Board Employees in Virginia Public Schools was developed for the Board to fulfill the statutory mandate to provide guidance on the minimum standards for the local training requirement.
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1/5/22  11:08 pm
Commenter: Anonymous

Cultural competency training
 

I oppose the cultural competency training guidance document! 
To compete in the world and to be truly educated, our students do not need indoctrination. 
Teachers need to teach academic subjects/skills and analytical thinking instead of wasting precious minds, time, and resources on biased twaddle. 

It is unfair to rob students (especially those whose parents cannot afford the alternative of private education) of the benefits of true knowledge. Teach them history peopled realistically with its flawed but noble characters, math in its all its beauty, orderliness, and complexity, literature with its timeless themes and language, and science in its order and mystery. 

Can’t you inspire students to discover what we all have in common instead of pressuring them to distrust one another’s differences? 


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