Gov. Youngkin Condemns Black Lives Matter at College Push in Virginia Ed Union: ‘This Will Not Be Tolerated’ 

Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s workplace stated the Black Lives Matter at College toolkit launched by a Virginia trainer’s union “won’t be tolerated.”  

The Virginia Training Affiliation’s Black Lives Matter at College Week of Motion toolkit champions BLM’s 13 rules within the classroom. It makes use of kindergarten via twelfth grade lesson plans made by the schooling department of the Southern Poverty Regulation Middle to show college students rules together with “transgender affirming,” “queer affirming,” “restorative justice,” and “globalism.”  

The rules promote essential race concept, a racial lens that teaches college students to deconstruct American society on the premise that its establishments are “systemically racist.” Younkin outlawed such schooling in a January 2022 govt order.

“Gov. Youngkin is empowering dad and mom, restoring excellence in schooling, and has eliminated essential race concept from Virginia’s faculties,” Youngkin spokeswoman Macauley Porter informed The Each day Sign. “The VEA — the identical union that saved faculties shuttered and college students at dwelling in the course of the pandemic — is now making an attempt to inject a politically-driven curriculum toolkit in an effort to show children to discriminate towards each other primarily based off their coloration, gender, race, or background.” 

“This won’t be tolerated,” she added.  

The govt order focused the “tenets of racially divisive ideas” in CRT, Youngkin stated on the time.  

Black Lives Matter at College Week of Motion, which falls on Feb. 6-10 this 12 months, began in 2016 to show “folks of all ages to interact with problems with racial justice” throughout Black Historical past Month.  

Lesson plans within the toolkit come from Studying for Justice, the schooling department of the Southern Poverty Regulation Middle, which is thought for branding mainstream conservative and Christian teams as “hate teams,” putting them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. 

VEA member academics agreed to put on Black Lives Matter shirts to high school throughout motion week and educate classes concerning the school-to-prison-pipeline, restorative justice, or reparations, and Black historical past, in response to the toolkit.  

The toolkit lists BLM’s 13 rules, comparable to “Black Villages,” which is outlined as “the disruption of Western nuclear household dynamics and a return to the ‘collective village’ that takes care of one another.” Trans affirmation, in response to the toolkit, “is the dedication to proceed to create space for our trans brothers and sisters by encouraging management and recognizing trans-antagonistic violence.”  

“Queer Affirming is working in the direction of a queer-affirming community the place heteronormative considering now not exists,” it continues.  

Elementary college lesson plans look at race in youngsters’s books. Center schoolers learn “Households Like Mine: Kids of Homosexual Dad and mom Inform It Like It Is” and be taught to elucidate BLM’s rules. Excessive schoolers focus on colonialism via the Howard Zinn Training Venture’s “The Coloration Line” and be taught vocabulary phrases like “implicit bias” and “mass incarceration.”

“Black Lives Matter at College Toolkit [is] for use as a useful resource information for advancing racial justice in Virginia’s faculties,” reads a letter from VEA Director of Human and Civil Rights Taisha Steele firstly of the toolkit.  

Jonathan Butcher, Will Skillman Fellow in Training at The Heritage Basis, informed The Each day Sign that Black Lives Matter’s rules coerce dad and mom and college students. (The Each day Sign is Heritage’s multimedia information group.)   

“The group’s so-called ‘guiding rules’ say they’re dedicated to ‘disrupting’ the Western-prescribed nuclear household construction’ which is clearly not an effort to steer people to assist radical gender concepts — they need to pressure their beliefs on college students,” Butcher stated.  

The VEA didn’t instantly reply to a Each day Sign request for remark.

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