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Virginia poised to mandate 'cultural competency' evaluation, black history training for teachers
2021-02-21
[Just the News] A pair of bills that recently cleared the Virginia state legislature will mandate that all teachers in the state undergo "cultural competency" training, with history and social science teachers required to undertake additional training regarding African-American history.

The bills, one in the state House of Delegates and one in the Senate, would add "cultural competency" evaluations to the standard slate of regular evaluations to which teachers in the commonwealth are subject and require "each teacher and any other school board employee holding a license issued by the [state Board of Education] to complete cultural competency training, in accordance with guidance issued by the Board, at least every two years."

"Every person seeking initial licensure or renewal of a license shall complete instruction or training in cultural competency," the law states elsewhere.

The law also directs that "every person seeking initial licensure or renewal of a license with an endorsement in history and social sciences shall complete instruction in African American history, as prescribed by the Board."

The legislation does not define "cultural competency," leaving its ultimate definition subject to "guidance" issued by the state education board, nor does it clarify the scope or content of "African American history" that history teachers will be required to learn going forward.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  As usual, quick on the trigger
Is grom, as he is with a figure.
A helpful suggestion
From the demo in question:
"Yo, go back to Israel, -----!"
Posted by: Ho Chi Shusogum5632   2021-02-21 20:35  

#6  Fine, bring it on. Let the garbage public school system push away intelligent students, crater its enrollment numbers and destroy itself.
Posted by: Neville Henbane9413   2021-02-21 11:58  

#5  Its 9, not 5, any number but 1 is invalid and even that must be replaced by the square root of the hypothesis of the inverse article written in the manifest of the cargo carried by the Lusitania in 1942.

Everybody knows that.

Wow, how did you complete your post secondary doctorate without knowing that ?
Posted by: Injun Angusolet3270   2021-02-21 09:47  

#4  2+2=5 ... for large values of 2.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2021-02-21 09:35  

#3  If you offered 30 million Blacks $10,000 and a free ticket to Africa the cost would be cheaper than the plan the Biden administration is now planning to administer.
Posted by: b   2021-02-21 08:56  

#2  In Virginia blackface is good, right? So is rape by black politicians.

Now gimme my Virginia teaching certificate.
Posted by: Gralet Jomort6809   2021-02-21 07:57  

#1  What about competency test on the subject a particular teacher is supposed to teach?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-02-21 07:47  

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