Virginia Democrats Pass Bill Requiring Schools to Teach Jan. 6 as an ‘Insurrection’
“[U]nprecedented, violent attack on U.S. democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.”
This is all about controlling the narrative.
The College Fix reports:
Virginia bill would mandate teaching of Jan. 6, 2021 as an ‘insurrection’
A bill requiring the teaching of January 6, 2021 as an “insurrection” recently passed the Democrat-majority Virginia House of Delegates and Senate … and stands ready for Governor Abigail Spanberger’s signature.
According to the text of HB 333 (“Public schools; programs and courses of instruction; instruction on January 6 insurrection”), the bill prohibits referring to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol as anything but an “insurrection,” one that was an “unprecedented, violent attack on U.S. democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.”
Jonathan Turley notes teachers “effectively” would be prohibited from mentioning “peaceful protests” or any sort of “irregularities” regarding the 2020 election.
“’Insurrection’ and ‘sedition’ are legal terms,” Turley says. “They have a meaning. The FBI investigated thousands after January 6th and charged hundreds. Not one was charged with insurrection or conspiracy to overthrow the country.”
Turley notes the bill’s sponsor, Democratic Delegate Dan Helmer, is again running for the U.S. House, this time in the notorious “lobster” or “scorpion” district created via his party’s gerrymandering.
Virginia Democrats reduced the Republican Party to just one U.S. House district, despite the state being evenly split politically.
Helmer once compared Donald Trump to Osama bin Laden, calling the president the “greatest threat to democracy.” He’s a big proponent of gun control and abortion, backs the Equal Rights Amendment, and supports eliminating taxes on menstrual products.
In addition to the heavily partisan redistricting, Virginia Democrats — who, like Gov. Spanberger, ran as moderates during last year’s campaign — have sought to codify abortion as a “fundamental right,” restore voting rights for felons, and ban “assault” weapons and “large-capacity” magazines.
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And I’m guessing they don’t teach about 9/11 at all. No requirement there.
Insurrection with no guns or knives. You cant make this crap up.
Actually apparently you can with Spanberger in charge.
Add Virginia to the list of states to wall off.
Baja DC.
Trump signs an EO requiring schools to teach the KKK as the parent organization of the DNC.
The president has no authority to give orders to public schools. The state legislature does. The Florida legislature could certainly require public schools in that state to teach that.
(Though it’s not true; the KKK was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party, not the other way around. The Democrat Party long predates the KKK.)
The DNC barely predates the KKK (but more’s the pity).
Terrorist, or paramilitary wing of the Democrat party?
Democrats would scream but if they rule J6 must be taught exclusively as insurrection, then why not teach about Democrats and the KKK, or Democrats and Antifa – the modern Democrat paramilitary? Also teach about the facists, Nazis, blackshirts, and brownshirts. Hammer home the parallels between the totalitarians of the past and the modern Left.
Again, the VA legislature doesn’t want that taught in the schools that it controls. The FL legislature would be absolutely entitled to retaliate by enacting your suggestion for FL public schools.
And parents keep sending their children to the government schools.
Two points.
1) Government schools of all schools shouldn’t be this way.
2) Most parents have no choice because of time and cost and other commitments.
Why not? We’re talking only about schools that the government owns and runs for its own purposes. Why should it not control them? Who should, if not it?
School districts are not independent entities, they’re simply divisions of the state that it has created for administrative convenience, and can dissolve or alter as it pleases.
“Government schools of all schools shouldn’t be this way.”
Government schools are this way BECAUSE they are government schools.
This book explains it well:
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Markets-Americas-Schools-Chubb/dp/0815714092
Summary here:
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtNA_259ab09b-d3a1-4c66-9d45-2982ed236acc
Elementary and high school teachers are school employees, and when in the classroom they’re speaking for their employer, and thus the employer has the right to dictate what they say. Their first amendment rights only apply when they’re off the job, speaking for themselves.
Since school districts are creations of state law, and have no independent existence, the state legislature has the right to dictate to them what limits they may/must impose on their employees when speaking for them.
If Florida can ban public school teachers from promoting LGQWERTY propaganda on the job, then Virginia can equally require it, or anything else of that kind, such as this.
And I would refuse. Because it’s a lie, and I cannot be required to perpetrate a lie. I don’t give a damn what they want to editorialize. The facts are not what they want you to believe.
I wonder if I have standing to sue over that. Probably not as I have no kids in public school.
You can be required to lie as a condition of your employment. If you don’t want to lie, quit your job.
And no, even if you had children in public school you’d have no standing to sue. Teachers would have standing, but they’d lose.
When are you due back at the Cube to recalibrate your cybernetic implants?
Funny you should mention that. That move to a rural location that I brought up a few months ago, and that had been put off until the spring… is coming up. I still have to decide whether to accept it, but if I do I will likely disappear from this forum some time next week. Or some new delay may intervene.
Is this a temporary delay or do you expect it to be permanent?
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What’s the legal basis whereby a person can be forced to lie? Indeed most law would suggest the complete opposite.
The legal basis is simply that an employee has to do his job as the employer tells him to. If you’re a secretary and your boss tells you to tell callers that she’s out, you have to do that. If your conscience doesn’t let you lie, you’re free to quit your job.
IANAL so I can’t quote statute on it. But when the State is your employer, you can be compelled upon threat of termination to repeat the State’s position on any number of topics. I’m pretty sure there are exemptions for religious objections, but no recognized religion will state that a political position is part of their core doctrine.
Let me try to explain it this way: If you work at Wendy’s, you must repeat the corporate position that Wendy’s chicken sandwiches are superior to Popeye’s chicken sandwiches. Even if you don’t believe it. If you don’t want to state the corporate position while on corporate time (ie, getting paid for it) then you should quit. They’re not paying you to disagree with them.
This reminds me of “The Anatomists Creed.” “I’ll see it when I believe it.”
Brings to mind the Scopes trial.
No, that was a criminal trial. This is just an employer giving directions to its employees about conveying its opinion on the job.
Well, while they are at it, why stop there? This could be their golden opportunity to require lots of other forms of progressive classroom indoctrination, to include the evils of capitalism, the clear superiority of socialism, the fascist war crimes of the U.S. colonial empire, and that the inherent violence of any conservative thought constitutes child abuse and/or endangerment. That will eventually generate the real rebellion they so desperately desire to suppress.
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