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In the fall, Virginia added more Black history to its public school curriculum. By winter, an election was already undoing those changes.
In part 2 of our Schooled series, Sonia Rao explains how Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s “critical race theory” ban is harming students and confusing teachers.
For Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a professor who co-chaired the committee that updated Virginia’s history curriculum, Youngkin’s ban looks like a viral Jonathan Harris painting, aka: whitewashing in action.
The erasure of non-white history in schools is just one of a multitude of violences young people in the U.S. face. In part 1 of our Schooled series, Scalawag contributor Rainesford Stauffer talked to Southern youth ages 9 to 20 about what they need from adults.
From gun reform to overturning anti-trans youth laws, Southern kids have a lot to say: “For politicians: Stop expecting K-12 students to learn how to stuff gunshot wounds or make a tourniquet with a sock so their classmate doesn’t bleed out,” Katherine, an 18-year old in New Orleans, told us. “Do something. Pass legislation. ‘Thoughts and prayers’ without action to prevent tragedy is faith without works.” Read the full story.
