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AverageOldGuy's JournalVA Gov. Youngkin's hypocrisy exposed . . . and it's brutal
In November, former businessman (fired from the Carlyle Group) Glenn Youngkin ran for and was elected Governor of Virginia. A major part of his campaign was his red-meat-to-the-base attacks on "critical race theory," which he vowed to removed from Virginia's public schools, even though "CRT" is graduate school or upper level law school material that is not taught in public schools. What he was really attacking was high school classes on diversity, Jim Crow, and some of the dark corners of American history - - - topics that the rural Virginians who supported him do not want their kids to know about.
Well, now it turns out that:
1. Youngkin's kids attend exclusive, private schools in DC.
2. Both teach equity, opportunity, diversity.
3. A book titled "Critical Race Theory: An Introduction" is on the schools' reading list along with a lot of very uncomfortable works by black authors.
4. Youngkin was on the Board of Governors of the schools when the curriculum was approved.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/26/glenn-youngkin-report-teachers-divisive-hypocrisy/
Youngkin’s move on critical race theory also comes with an added dollop of hypocrisy. Public schools, including Virginia’s, don’t teach critical race theory, which was a little-known academic school of thought before the Fox News crowd misrepresented it as a threat to American children.
But do you know which schools do teach “divisive” concepts, including something resembling critical race theory? The private D.C. schools Youngkin had his children attend. And you know who was on the board of governors of one of those schools while it was beefing up its anti-racism policies? Glenn Youngkin.
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DEI — Diversity, Equity and Inclusion — has been a priority at National Cathedral for many years. The school has an extensive staff devoted to the initiative, as well as programming that includes affinity groups such as diversity forums, an equity board, an intersectionality council and a student diversity leadership conference. A National Cathedral strategic plan approved by the board in 2018 — during Youngkin’s tenure — “includes the mandate to ‘Advance an Inclusive Educational Environment,' " which involved “integrating related action steps into the fabric of everything we are and do as a school community.”
Among the other things National Cathedral has done: made time in the school schedule for “critical conversations around topics of race, anti-racism, social justice, and inclusion”; added courses such as “Black Lives in Literature” and “Courageous Dialogues”; developed new hiring protocols “as a result of our anti-bias work” and required diversity training for all staff members; and included in the school’s summer reading list books such as Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism.”
Advice from an old guy with white hair
Well, what's left of it is white.
Here's some advice for you young gentlemen: DO NOT, and I say again -- DO NOT -- do not ever find yourself in the midst of a "discussion" between your wife and one or more of your adult daughters, no matter the topic, no matter your opinion. Leave the room. Better yet, go to your local watering hole, but stay out of it.
You see, fathers and adult sons can talk about hunting, fishing, football (or whatever sport is in season), home repairs, cars, trucks . . . a variety of topics. And you can do this for days and days. Fathers and adult daughters have an understanding: She's always going to be your little girl, she knows it, you know it, and -- most important of all -- you recognize that she's a smart, competent, independent woman who will ask your opinion if she wants it.
Mothers and adult daughters can maintain a truce for 48 hours at best . . . after which . . . 
TAke coveer.
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