The two national teachers unions have donated a combined $1 million to McAuliffe's campaign for Virginia governor.
The law firm, Hunton Andrews Kurth, has been paid $8M since 2019 to do what the mom says is Fairfax County Public Schools' dirty work fighting against parents.
1,400 pages of billing records show Hunton advocating for the interest of the school system as it was found responsible for violating environmental regulations; apparently negotiating with foreign hackers after student data was stolen in a ransomware attack;
handling FOIA requests from parents, which FCPS frequently aggressively blocks; and sparring with Asian parents who said the district was committing racial discrimination by abolishing the entrance exam for a math magnet school after Democrats complained too many Asians did well.
Typical of alleged physical abuse by educators in the class-action lawsuit from special-ed parents, which Hunton sought to have dismissed, was an 8-year-old with PTSD who school staff shoved into a cardboard box, which they called a “safe space.”
A thirteen-year-old with autism was allegedly secluded 745 times, often in a six-by-six foot padded room, which it called providing "support." Another was allegedly placed in a chokehold, while still another was hit in the head with a radio.
A man, who the special-ed mom who obtained the records identified as Hunton attorney Ryan M. Bates, began coming to her house multiple times a day in a Lexus SUV and lurking outside for long periods of time, demanding she destroy the records.
One letter signed by Bates said “You have not responded to my letter, FCPS’s September 17, 2021 letter, or the four voicemail messages that I have left for you… Do not share or disseminate the inadvertently produced records.”
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A Maryland 'equity' office planned to mark 9/11 by hosting a play that it said explores "Islamophobia" — in which the main Arab-American character admits he was "proud" when the Twin Towers fell, and another says America “deserved what it got.”
It advertised the play as exposing "prejudices... in even the most progressive cultural circles."
But the Equity office did not appear to read the play, which it abruptly cancelled: The play ends with a white liberal woman being beaten by an Arab and lamenting her "naievete."
In it, white liberal Emily lectures her husband Amir that Islam does not actually encourage men to beat their wives, as he says it does. She also disagrees with a black woman for being conservative, then sleeps with her husband. When Amir finds out, he brutally beats her.
The SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMM is set to copy K-12 equity efforts
But whereas K-12 erases discipline disparities by lowering standards (avoiding 'school-to-prison-pipeline') SEC found no disparities, so it will put MORE employees in pipeline to find them
SEC IG found that few employees were disciplined, & no racial disparities. But said "Equity should be present in every facet of the work environment."
It will now lower the threshold of "suspected" misconduct that sends employees to HR
This report, which says that in the Biden admin, orgs must focus not just on equal opportunities but on avoiding “disparate outcomes" from "unconscious bias," was written by an IG, the gov's most independent&nonpartisan entity. Afghanistan IG also removed reports at Biden request
One is from an uber-conservative town where 9/10 officials are Republican. He claimed he "accidentally" signed the survey because "doesn't always read carefully." He actually wrote a whole paragraph agreeing with it.
“Since I attached my name to it and said I’m going to teach it to your kids, it’s causing me a lot of trouble,” he said. “I just want my name removed.”
Does that mean he decided not too teach CRT?
I’m going “to just do what I’ve always been doing, and not call it that,” he said
A government-funded report says Virginia should not have a "celebration" of America's 250th birthday because liberals don't view it as something worth celebrating
(Actually most survey respondents did but the results had to be changed because, uh equity)
The report also concluded that because conservatives were excited about the idea of America's 250th, events should revolve around liberal priorities instead ("because [they're] all-in anyway")
It insists that "diversity" is a "founding ideal" of America, even though this was supposedly based on a survey and not ideology, and almost no one named it was such.
It also says liberals who "generally feel that other countries are better" have the "most inclusive attitudes.”
If you read the books of DiAngelo types, it's clear wokeness is projection by unusually anxious, racist white women who crave mystical protocols to cure their inability to talk to people of other races as peers
Debby Irving, who was hired for 75 speeches on anti-racism this year, lives in a 4% black neighborhood and summers at a home passed down thru her family since the Mayflower era, where there are only 16 black people in 194 miles.
Her WASP upbringing instilled her with social anxiety and the need to master manners for every social setting. Emotionally reserved when around Protestants, say "ma'am" when around Southerners
But when she met a black person, she got "so jumpy" because she didn't know the code