# The Parable of the Bambino - Virginia Mercury  ## Metadata - Author:: [[Virginia Mercury]] - Full Title:: The Parable of the Bambino - Virginia Mercury - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.virginiamercury.com/2022/11/28/the-parable-of-the-bambino/ ## Highlights > He picked the perfect wedge issue, too: public education. Specifically, Youngkin promised to make the concerns and prerogatives of parents a priority among those who set public school policy and curriculum. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1556812527/21386361)) - Note: CRT > He accused schools of indoctrinating students with “critical race theory,” a college-level academic concept that every Virginia school division denied teaching. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1556812527/21386371)) > Every seven years, the State Board of Education is required to update the minimum expectations for what K-12 public students should learn in documents known as the Standards of Learning. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1556812527/21386374)) > it was presented to the board last week, all hell broke loose. In a long public input session during the nearly eight-hour meeting, the new Cliff’s Notes draft was pilloried by teachers, parents, community groups and historians as a “whitewash” of history that glosses over the nation’s fraught racial past and minimizes the contributions and perspectives of marginalized and Indigenous people (euphemized as “America’s first immigrants”) and communities of color. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1556812527/21386375)) > noting apparent lapses on some historical topics including the anti-slavery abolition movement. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1556812527/21386380)) > President Ronald Reagan is referenced six times in the new draft yet the nation’s first Black president, Barack Obama, is not mentioned. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1556812527/21386384)) # The Parable of the Bambino - Virginia Mercury  ## Metadata - Author:: [[Virginia Mercury]] - Full Title:: The Parable of the Bambino - Virginia Mercury - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.virginiamercury.com/2022/11/28/the-parable-of-the-bambino/ ## Highlights > He picked the perfect wedge issue, too: public education. Specifically, Youngkin promised to make the concerns and prerogatives of parents a priority among those who set public school policy and curriculum. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1556812527/21386361)) - Note: CRT > He accused schools of indoctrinating students with “critical race theory,” a college-level academic concept that every Virginia school division denied teaching. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1556812527/21386371)) > Every seven years, the State Board of Education is required to update the minimum expectations for what K-12 public students should learn in documents known as the Standards of Learning. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1556812527/21386374)) > it was presented to the board last week, all hell broke loose. In a long public input session during the nearly eight-hour meeting, the new Cliff’s Notes draft was pilloried by teachers, parents, community groups and historians as a “whitewash” of history that glosses over the nation’s fraught racial past and minimizes the contributions and perspectives of marginalized and Indigenous people (euphemized as “America’s first immigrants”) and communities of color. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1556812527/21386375)) > noting apparent lapses on some historical topics including the anti-slavery abolition movement. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1556812527/21386380)) > President Ronald Reagan is referenced six times in the new draft yet the nation’s first Black president, Barack Obama, is not mentioned. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1556812527/21386384))