{"id":589834,"date":"2021-07-13T12:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589834"},"modified":"2021-07-13T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T16:21:13","slug":"parents-in-conservative-virginia-county-outraged-to-learn-crt-pushed-on-their-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-in-conservative-virginia-county-outraged-to-learn-crt-pushed-on-their-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents In Conservative Virginia County Outraged To Learn CRT Pushed On Their Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparents-in-conservative-virginia-county-outraged-to-learn-crt-pushed-on-their-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589834&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-184638972.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Virginia has seemingly become ground zero for the conservative fight against Critical Race Theory (CRT), with Loudoun County parents leading the way.<\/p>\n<p>But another, more conservative Virginia county \u2013 Powhatan \u2013 has begun its own battle against CRT, The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/12\/appalled-parents-discover-racially-extremist-instruction-in-conservative-virginia-county\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It started on May 3, when county Board of Supervisors member Mike Byerly showed the community a PowerPoint presentation from Powhatan County Public School (PCPS) teachers discussing teaching CRT but calling it \u201ccultural competency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cByerly had requested information on school spending from the previous year but had yet to receive an itemized account of curriculum purchases. Byerly also shared a concerning list of companies and organizations funded by PCPS that included CRT and Black Lives Matter proponents such as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/merc.soe.vcu.edu\/\">Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium<\/a>. In contrast, Byerly also noted a recently mandated African American history class would be a positive addition to county schools,\u201d the Federalist reported. \u201cByerly\u2019s address led to a cascade of community responses, the majority from parents who were shocked and frustrated by the school board\u2019s involvement in divisive training and curriculum counter to American values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Viki Hurt, a former teacher and member of No Left Turn, a grassroots education group, told the outlet that, contrary to what proponents of CRT and their media supporters claim, opposing CRT is not about opposing the teaching of America\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want all of history to be taught, but we also don\u2019t want our children to pay for the sins of past generations,\u201d Hurt said.<\/p>\n<p>On June 22, at the Board of Supervisors and school board joint meeting, Byerly shared a Facebook post showing a teacher asking other educations to incorporate CRT into classroom instruction. At that same meeting, \u201cCounty Supervisor David Williams shared slides from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/k12albemarle.org\/virginiainquirycollaborative\/2019-20-us-history-collaboration\">Virginia Inquiry Collaborative<\/a>&nbsp;(VIC), a consortium encouraging race-based teaching to include the oppressiveness of \u2018white culture\u2019 and learning through the lens of \u2018systemic racism.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Taylor, a resident of the county and another member of No Left Turn, asked some pertinent questions at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are we sending teachers to a conference to re-write Virginia history which focuses on whiteness and the color of someone\u2019s skin?\u201d she asked.&nbsp;\u201cWhat does this have to do with curriculum in Powhatan County? What does this have to do with math and science? This idea of race being the predominant factor in curriculum has got to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from the Federalist:<\/p>\n<p><em>Williams also presented a training slide from the collaborative entitled, \u201cConstruction of a Dominant Narrative: \u2018Whiteness,\u2019\u201d describing race as \u201cnot based on genetics,\u201d a \u201csocial construction\u201d and \u201cnot \u2018real\u2019\u201d but containing consequences for the \u201cracialized.\u201d Race, the slide goes on to say, \u201cwas created to and remains the main tool for maintaining social, economic and educational inequality in the U.S. and beyond.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Parents were outraged to learn the teachers had been participating in this training without community input, and Byerly proposed a motion to immediately ban CRT from PCPS classrooms, a move that was stalled by school board members.<\/p>\n<p>Following the meeting, PCPS revised mention of the training on its website to downplay its importance.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia has seemingly become ground zero for the conservative fight against Critical Race Theory (CRT), with Loudoun County parents leading the way.But another, more conservative Virginia county \u2013 Powhatan \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314566,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-184638972.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Parents In Conservative Virginia County Outraged To Learn CRT Pushed On Their Children","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-184638972.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Parents In Conservative Virginia County Outraged To Learn CRT Pushed On Their Children","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}