The town hall meeting hosted by CNN on March 9 highlighted Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s fight over critical race theory (CRT)—a Marxism framework that views America as systematically racist. His road has been bumpy.
In his opening remarks, Youngkin described the Commonwealth as having some of the best schools but are plagued with lower standards and academic performance, partly due to focusing on equity—equal outcomes—and CRT.
The public school lockdown during the pandemic offered parents “a front-row seat in their child’s education in kitchens and family rooms,” he said, adding that parents saw what was taught in the schools as “pitting children against one another based on race, sex, or religion.” “What they also saw were materials that really weren’t comfortable for them and consistent with their family values.”…