London county Virginia : Stage Orange revolt of stage green transition

[Raze]

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Recently there was a lot of drama in Loudon county Virginia. Parents accusing the school of teaching critical race theory and doing other things without their permission, and teachers accusing parents of racism. The drama culminated in the democratic governor of Virginia losing releection to a republicans challenger, many saying this was caused by white and Asian parents who normally vote democratic switching. Many argue this is a sign to come of republicans winning because democrats overplayed their hands, other say it is a backlash of white supremacy and Fox News propaganda. 
 

liberal journalist Matt Taibbi has done a series investigating the drama.

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1) Loudoun County was sending their most high-scoring students to a gifted high school in neighboring Fairfax County called Thomas Jefferson High School. This was costing them money, so they decided to try making their own gifted high school called Academies of Loudoun. At the same time, there were other parents trying to stop standardized testing in general.

2) A large group of parents protested this plan because their children were benefiting a lot from being sent to TJ High School.

3) These parents were almost all Indian and Asian. The gifted schools were actually 65-70% Asian or Indian. White parents wouldn't be nearly as affected by the plan to end standardized testing because many of them had the income to send their kids to private school anyway. The remaining white students who weren't in private school were frequently some of the worst performing in the school district rather than the best.

4) Despite the demographics, being pro-standardized-testing was framed as being white supremacist. The racial makeup of the schools was disingenuously framed as being "predominately white and Asian" when Asians & Indians (just gonna say Asian from now on) were overrepresented by a great deal, and whites were underrepresented. This was the opener for what would come next.

5) The district eliminates midterms and finals and debates eliminating all standardized testing for admissions into the gifted program.

6) In the midst of this furor, it is decided that children need to be taught more about black history. A group of gym teachers decides to set up a mock underground railroad where some kids are pretend slaves and some are pretend slave catchers.

7) The local NAACP gets involved and uses this as an example of how racist the school district is. The head of the local NAACP chapter, Michelle Thomas, writes a letter excoriating the school district. In this letter she relied on statistics and rhetoric provided by a consulting company in California named Equity Collaborative. 

8) The school district hires Equity Collaborative on a contract worth around $400,000 to help them solve white supremacy.

9) Shouldn't be part of the cliff notes but I have to include it because it's hilarious: EC recommends they apologize for white supremacy in a statement on the school district website. The school asks Michelle Thomas if she would like to help them. She says this is abusive and emotional labor. They write the apology without her. She then excoriates them publicly for not consulting the NAACP -- of which, again, SHE IS THE LOCAL LEADER.

10) EC characterizes the LCPS district as being nervous about minorities moving in, the implications clearly being that these are white parents who are angry that black and Hispanic children have moved into the district, when in fact Asian children are targeted with just as much of that vile attitude. Yet in the section about racist incidents, NOTHING is written about Asians at all.

11) EC recommends starting a secret group of students, all of which are to be minorities, where they will record offensive speech and report it to the principal. They are supposed to set up a secret form for these students to fill out and submit when they hear another student say something offensive.

12) The school announces they will be monitoring the teachers' speech on and off campus, and will be asking all teachers to report offensive speech they hear from other teachers whether in school or in their private lives.

13) Opposition to this is relentlessly framed as white supremacy in the press.

14) When this becomes too obviously illegal for them to be doing in public, and the normal tactic of misdirection through lies and shaming in the media is now failing to work, it goes private. 6 school board members start a private group on Facebook and maintain a secret list of subversive parents who are enemies of the cause. Except messages show that even being neutral is seen as suspicious, so you don't even have to be actively against the cause to wind up on this secret list of enemies. Very Mean Girls.

15) There are also explicit instructions for how to conduct business outside formal channels so the documents cannot be obtained via FOIA.

16) Keeping school closed (ostensibly due to COVID) seems to also be seen as a tactic against rogue parents and teachers. School board member Beth Barts (who eventually had to resign) said keeping school disrupted would prevent suspended teacher Tanner Cross from being let back in the classroom.

17) Another funny story: multiple news stories write about how these unruly parents at school board meetings just won't follow the rules. Some imply the parents shout profanity. The articles neglect to mention the rules on decorum prohibit profanity and applause, and it's the latter the parents were doing. They were supposed to only do "jazz hands" (lmao) and defied that order by clapping, but the news writes about it as if the parents were screaming nothing but F words and C words at the administrators like out-of-control barbarian orcs.

18) Asian parents tell the Democratic party to fuck off by voting for Youngkin in droves.

19) The press continues to write about this as if it is clearly just more white supremacy.

20) Matt Taibbi ends by saying he wrote this to show that CRT was only a small portion of the story and that parents had many other things to be upset about. He also however points out that EC and the school board were using materials that use the words "CRT", and that until it became national dogma to pretend CRT isn't real, they themselves had been using the label "anti-CRT" on the parents as an insult.

Matt also does not discuss the rape incident as it was covered elsewhere.

Edited December 30, 2021 by Raze

[hoodrow trillson]

The funny part is, they never taught or were going to teach Critical Race Theory in schools.    

It was another successful ploy & lie to get a Republican Governor in and it worked!  Suckers are born every minute.

[Preety_India]

Orange backlash against stage Green shadow 

Some of it is necessary for balance against Green excess. Some of it is detrimental and shows intolerance to progressive perspectives. 

 

Edited December 30, 2021 by Preety_India