Four years ago, Glenn Youngkin was busy running for governor on a thoroughly dishonest platform, pretty much on every single issue, including education, where he falsely attacked Democrats for a variety of things that were either false, distorted or fear mongering/demagoguery garbage. For instance, remember the racist panic over “CRT,” which wasn’t even being taught in Virginia K-12 schools (hell, 99%+ of voters had never even heard of it before Youngkin and the right-wing noise machine decided to make it an issue for the 2021 campaign, never to be heard about again)? Or how about Youngkin’s bogus claims that Democrats (supposedly) maliciously shut down public schools during COVID (and/or made kids wear masks), as opposed to doing so – along with most states, red or blue – as a deadly pandemic raged? Or how about Youngkin falsely claiming that Democrats lowered educational standards and that he, in contrast, would “restore excellence in education.” On all fronts, of course, Youngkin was (and still is) a L-I-A-R.
Then there was Youngkin’s far-right running mate, Winsome Sears, making WILDLY false claims about Virginia public schools, such as that supposedly “84% of Black kids are failing 70% of Latino kids are failing.” As then-VA Education Secretary Atif Qarni responded, “I don’t know what data points she’s talking about…what is she using…she just made up some numbers…she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.” Sears also falsely claimed, “they were teaching pretty much...
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