What is being taught to our children in Virginia’s Fairfax County public schools? Critical Race Theory? Gender fluidity? Pornography? Is excellence in education being sidelined in favor of other goals?
The county’s school system has been in national as well as local headlines, with conflicting claims and denials about what is and isn’t being taught. Rather than relying on sensational news reports, this blog will expose the truth about the policies and curriculum of the public school system. What are teachers being instructed to teach, and what are the children actually being taught? Has the focus remained on reading, writing, language, mathematics, science, history and civics, or has the school system shifted towards implanting controversial ideologies into young minds?
We will dig into the facts and will reveal official documents, including policy statements and curriculum outlines. We will monitor the activities of the Fairfax County School Board. We will solicit knowledgeable input from parents and mature students.
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Governor Youngkin Defends Model Transgender Policy on CNN
Today’s “State of the Union” program on CNN included an interview of Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin by Jake Tapper. In it, Youngkin defended his administration’s proposed policy for dealing with transgender issues in public schools. His comments are informative. For those who missed it, a link to the relevant part of the CNN interview is…
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Fairfax School Board Continues Its One-Sided View of Transgender Issues
The Fairfax County School Board’s October 6 meeting focused largely on transgender issues. The auditorium was packed with LGBT students and supporters. The Board chairman opened the meeting with a prepared statement that left little doubt about the Board’s intent to challenge the Virginia Department of Education’s (VDOE) new transgender policy (“the Model Policy”). Another…
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Fairfax County Schools Sexualize Education and Exclude Parents
The Federalist recently carried a very informative and perceptive article about the transgender issue, exclusion of parents, and the sexualization of education in Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), written by a former member of the FCPS Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee. It is well worth reading. A link to the article is HERE. If…
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Fairfax Schools Freak Out Over Youngkin Transgender Policy
The Fairfax County Public School system (FCPS) is having a meltdown over the Youngkin administration’s revised Model Policy for dealing with transgender issues in Virginia schools. As previously reported, the Virginia Department of Education recently rescinded the previous administration’s model transgender policy and replaced it with a new one. See “Youngkin Administration Revamps Model Transgender Policies,”…
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Fairfax School Superintendent Reacts to Youngkin Transgender Policy; Fairfax Schools Monitor Responds
Superintendent Reid’s Letter to Fairfax Families On Friday, September 16, The Virginia Department of Education, under the Republican administration of Governor Glenn Younkin, published a new model policy for dealing with transgender issues in public schools (hereinafter “Model Policy”). The new policy differs in important respects from the existing transgender policy of the Fairfax…
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Youngkin Administration Revamps Model Transgender Policies
Introduction Two recent posts on this site have reported on, and criticized, the Fairfax County School Board’s transgender regulation. See “Fairfax Parents Excluded From Kids’ Gender Issues,” Aug. 31, 2022, and “Trans Rules Fairfax Schools,” Sept. 7, 2022. The Fairfax County regulation has now been thrown into doubt. On September 16, 2022, the Virginia Department of…
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Trans Rules Fairfax Schools
It’s remarkable how a tiny minority can wield the power that transgender advocates enjoy today. A few years ago we hardly heard of transgenderism; today it is the “woke” cause de jour. Some institutions are ignoring the rights of the majority in order to make a miniscule minority feel more comfortable. Nowhere is this more…
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Fairfax Parents Excluded From Kids’ Gender Issues
A Conversation Between a Pre-Teen and Teacher Recently, twelve-year-old Sam approached a teacher at his Fairfax County public school, and this conversation occurred: Sam: Miss Jones, I sometimes wonder whether I’m really a girl, trapped in a boy’s body. Jones: When did you start feeling that way? Sam: A while ago, but last week, when…
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Fairfax Teachers’ Union Is Proud About the Covid Shutdowns, Despite Learning Loss
Introduction The outgoing and incoming presidents of the Fairfax Education Association — the labor union representing Fairfax County public school teachers — spoke at the July 14, 2022 meeting of the Fairfax County School Board. Both expressed pride in their role in school closures during the Covid pandemic. They painted themselves as courageous figures, doing…
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Lawsuit Against Fairfax County Schools Is Resolved.
Background about the Case As previously reported, I filed a lawsuit against the Fairfax County School Board in May, challenging its withholding of information I had requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). See “Fairfax Schools Monitor Sues Fairfax Schools, Round 2,” May 27, 2002. My FOIA request was for documents relating to the…
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