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You seem to be moving quickly away from what was a very strong statement. As I have shown, your claim went from, "Except that critical race theory isn’t being taught in one single school anywhere in the state," to, "I don't know of anywhere in the state of Virginia where Critical Race Theory is being taught." Though my guess is you have spent basically no time looking at school curricula researching if any classrooms are teaching CRT, have you?

But luckily, the internet makes things easy to find.

Here is a link from the Virginia Department of Education about anti-racism: https://www.virginiaisforlearners.virginia.gov/anti-racism-in-education/

If you read through the beginning, you will notice the explanations are perfectly in line with what the NEA materials said. Read a little further, and they are even nice enough to provide definitions, very similar to what the NEA has provided. Of particular note, the definition for "racism" includes a link for further material under the text "Racism Defined":

Would you like to guess what the very first paragraph references in the definition of racism that the Virginia Department of Education provided?
The definition of racism offered here is grounded in Critical Race Theory, a movement started in the 1970s by activists and scholars committed to the study and transformation of traditional relationships of race to racism and power. CRT was initially grounded in the law and has since expanded to other fields. CRT also has an activist dimension because it not only tries to understand our situation but to change it.
I cannot emphasize enough that this was directly linked by the Virginia Department of Education under their definition of "racism." So their explicit materials literally say exactly what I've been saying this whole time. I should also mention it probably took me more time to type this all out with references than it did to actually find the information I was looking for.
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Here’s a superintendent memo about it:


“Navigating EdEquityVA”:


And the part of the doe website dedicated to anti-racism in education, though the concept permeates the whole site, I would say:



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 that this isn’t about anecdotes.
It is when enough ex-Biden voters complain about what they hear from their kids when they get home from school.


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The silence is deafening; isn’t it?
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I just hope that he doesn't continue with the "CRT isn't being taught in schools" argumentation that is so common. It is difficult to tell those who ignorantly use that line from those who do so to be intentionally deceptive.
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There's plenty of testimony from the affected kids. Only the most sinister and disingenuous leftist would think all those kids are part of a conspiracy to hurt teachers.

It's so bad that left wing sycophants are resorting to calling minority parents complaining about CRT "Black white-supremacists"

Orwellian as all hell.
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I think the only solution is to pull kids from public schools. They have successfully infiltrated universities, indoctrinated educators, and taken over the unions. Pulling kids will cut off their funding and reduce their influence on all fronts. But unfortunately, many don't realize that they are often the most qualified people to educate their own children so they will leave their kids under the Critical pedagogy of these radical activists.
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Yes, I was just talking to a couple who were home schooling their children. I told them that it seems to be more the norm as time goes on, and it’s no wonder. Postmodernism (simplified as moral/cultural relativism) is infiltrating every institution. The postmodernist thought in education yesterday is creating the educators, lawyers, journalists, HR specialists, executives, and politicians of today.

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Jordan Peterson has been warning about the decline of society due to postmodernism for almost a decade.

When there are no objective truths, there can be no individual agency. Your individual existence is literally dependent upon an elite class of interpreters of "truth"

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You seem to be moving quickly away from what was a very strong statement. As I have shown, your claim went from, "Except that critical race theory isn’t being taught in one single school anywhere in the state," to, "I don't know of anywhere in the state of Virginia where Critical Race Theory is being taught." 
It’s not a movement away from my claim, it’s a translation from basic English to a more carefully crafted statement to ensure people do not twist my words into something I’m not saying. 

As I already pointed out… I’m not omniscient and I’m not proclaiming to be. I’m sorry that had to be clarified for you. So congratulations on your “gotcha” that I cannot prove a negative to you, a negative that you yourself explicitly accept. Is that better? Is that clearer?

Here is a link from the Virginia Department of Education about anti-racism:
Link not found. I assume there was something there before, I missed the reply originally. Why don’t you tell me what it said and I’ll take your word for it…

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@Fruit_Inspector
I think the only solution is to pull kids from public schools. They have successfully infiltrated universities, indoctrinated educators, and taken over the unions. Pulling kids will cut off their funding and reduce their influence on all fronts. But unfortunately, many don't realize that they are often the most qualified people to educate their own children so they will leave their kids under the Critical pedagogy of these radical activists.
  1. There is no way that any single parent, not even a teacher, is the most qualified person to singlehandedly educate their children vs a schooling establishment. The issue with bad schools is rarely qualification, it's more about implementation.
  2. The reason that they can't do this is cost, I reckon only a tiny spoonful (not even handful) of parents send their children to public school when being fully capable of sending their children to private schools with next to 0 financial risk vs their income level. Most parents who send their children to public school have at least some financial justification for needing to do so.

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There is no way that any single parent, not even a teacher, is the most qualified person to singlehandedly educate their children vs a schooling establishment.



School was a struggle for Einstein and he found it a miserable affair. His teachers reportedly assessed him as being “mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in his foolish dreams”.

Albert Einstein attended school, but was unhappy with structured teaching. He supplemented his school tuition with self-education, and chose to study complicated mathematical concepts at his own pace, with the support of his parents. 

That's proof that institutions don't know best for everyone.
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That doesn't prove anything, the parents hired outside of themselves to educate the children and it is impossible it was 'outqualifying' just that it was a qualified tutor and sufficient.

He said 'most qualified'.
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Einstein wasn't outqualifying his schooling establishment to teach himself anything, I don't think you know how qualifications work.
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I know there are countless potential Einsteins labeled as "slow" and "unsociable" by a myopic praxis crafted by institutionalists in an ivory tower.

Thank god parents exist.
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What passes for institutional education today is mostly political indoctrination to make sure teachers and administrators keep their jobs. It is a system that was originally set up in the industrial era to teach kids how to be punctual factory workers, and it has changed little.


Anyone who is still a sycophantic shill for industrial education has never been allowed to think for themselves.
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It is a separate debate on whether or not homeschooling is truly sufficient or not.

Homeschooling has also been the way that the worst abuse cases you can imagine kept going and kept the children hidden way past when they turned 18. I'm not gonna give details on how the cover ups work because if literally one abusive parent reads this and gets an idea, I dont want to prevent them doing it wrong and getting caught.

There are ways that fabricated tuition in homeschooling are trackable and can warrant investigation however if they do everything correctly, it's difficult for the education administration to catch onto it.