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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Recent Posts
Saga of the “Controversial Issues Policy — Part 3
Introduction As explained in the previous two posts, the Fairfax County School Board decided eighteen months ago, in September 2020, to revise its long-standing Controversial Issues Policy. This was deemed necessary so that teachers could indoctrinate their students with “anti-racist” ideas about “power,” “privilege,” “systemic racism,” “identity,” and “equity.” This post discusses the development of…
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Saga of the “Controversial Issues Policy” — Part 2
Introduction This post is a continuation of the analysis begun in “Saga of the ‘Controversial Issues Policy’” — Part 1,” March 23, 2022. This post demonstrates that in 2020-21, when the School Board was considering its new race-centric curricula, it was aware that its plans would violate the school system’s long-standing Controversial Issues Policy, and,…
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Saga of the “Controversial Issues Policy” — Part 1
The Fairfax County School Board has had a Controversial Issues Policy for many years. It requires teachers to be objective and nonpartisan if controversial issues arise in their classrooms. The text of the Policy is HERE. It seems sensible to have such a policy; right? Otherwise, our schools could be a means by which those…
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Update on Suit Against Fairfax Schools re Kendi Videotape
As previously reported, we filed suit against the Fairfax County school system on January 13, 2022, challenging its refusal to give us a copy of a videotape of a presentation by Critical Race Theory guru Ibram X. Kendi. See “Fairfax Schools Monitor Sues Fairfax Schools,” Jan. 13, 2022. The presentation, for which…
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School Board Meeting — March 10
Last night’s meeting of the Fairfax County School Board was noteworthy in that most of the speakers during the Community Participation segment, as well as most others in the audience, were critics of School Board policies and actions. This isn’t always the case. Activists on the left often make their presence felt to a greater…
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Court Nixes School Board’s “Social Justice” Admissions Policy
Introduction The Fairfax County School Board implemented a new admissions policy last year for the elite Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (“TJ”), designed to increase the percentage of African American and Hispanic students in the school at the expense of Asian Americans. Yesterday, the federal district court in Alexandria struck down…
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If It Can Happen in San Fran ….
The citizens of San Francisco overwhelming voted this week to throw three members of the local school board out of office. Only three of the seven members were eligible for recall. All three were ousted by more than 70 percent of the voters. The San Francisco School Board incurred the wrath of parents and other…
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Fairfax School Board Defends Race-Centric Curriculum — Continued
Introduction The most recent post on this site reported on speeches by members of the Fairfax County School Board in defense of their new social studies curriculum, which focuses relentlessly on issues of race, power, bias and identity. See “Fairfax School Board Defends Race-Centric Curriculum,” February 12, 2022. This post analyzes and critiques the comments of the…
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Fairfax School Board Defends Race-Centric Curriculum
Introduction Recent posts on this site have outlined the process by which the Fairfax County School Board has reshaped the curriculum for social studies courses to focus on issues of “privilege,” “equity,” “power” and “bias.” See “Development of New ‘Anti-Racism’ Curriculum in Fairfax County,” Jan. 16, 2022; “Fairfax County’s Race Centric Curriculum for U.S. History,” Jan. 21, 2022.…
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Virginia Senate Rejects School Board Power Play
Yesterday’s news from the Virginia Senate was extraordinary. Half the Democrats joined with all the Republicans to reject the latest power play by Northern Virginia School Boards. The Senate voted 29-9 to allow parents to opt out of local mask mandates for students in public schools. The House of Delegates will almost surely endorse this…
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