l.a. county bang official travel to florida over what they deem a controversial bill that does nothing more than keep sex training out of classrooms. they said they were going to put gender ideology in 2nd grade. they are trying to teach kids to be quote gender fluid. what we did was absolutely appropriate. parents in florida want to send their kids to school without having to worry about some of these things injected into the curriculum. we have full curriculum transparency in the state of florida. every parent has the right to know what curriculum is being taught in he subject and you have the right to know about the library books. and you have the right to have your voice heard.
this is what turns off parents. what turned off parents in virginia, in the glenn youngkin race, idea with government officials and school administrators, school board members lecturing parents oh, stop talking about this, stop worrying about this, this is a problem that does not really exist and the parents are saying wait a minute, i saw the instruction, i know it s going on. stop telling me it s not a problem when clearly it is a problem. shannon: if it s not a part of the instruction or something parents should be fearful about, then it shouldn t worry the other side that there is a ban on having these conversations if they don t already exist. i want to put up something, apparently from one new jersey school district. these are distributed, suggested lesson plans, and like the first and 2nd grade. you may feel you are a boy even if you have body parts some people may tell you you have girl parts. or you are a girl and some
reporter: ten minutes away from the virginia state capitol building where new governor youngkin was inaugurated this past weekend is richmond elementary school where an executive order he issued is getting panned. jason is the superintendent of richmond s 55 public schools. here in richmond and a number of other school districts across the state, there is concern that without mask mandates, the spike in covid cases will only get worse. anna mason is the mother of a 2nd grade daughter at the west overhills school. she says despite her superintendent s stance, the governor s order which takes effect next monday is very concerning. feel really disappointed. why? because i m scared. i am scared for my kid. i am scared for her classmates. yeah. i feel like this is what other protection do we have? reporter: mccormick is the
every day that you take them out of school and as we see in chicago there s no remote learning plan here, that they are going to fall even further behind. i don t think there s any question. if this was march 2020, think a week, two weeks. we are coming up on two years of disrupted learning. so each day definitely matters. each day. think about a kindergartener who started in 2020, and now 2nd grade. they have not had a truly uninterrupted normal school year. we are coming up on two years and it s because we have the new tools, we have the knowledge, it s not like we are throwing our hands up and saying we don t know how to keep people safe. vaccines are safe. get vaccinated, get boosted. i have three kids, they are all vaccinated. on top of that, you can wear a good-fitting, a high filtration mask and give you extra protection. all the tools are there to keep us safe and we have gotten so narrow thinking about risk, and not a wider lens and what
mask map date. reporter: jason is the superintendent of richmond s 55 public schools. here in richmond and a number of other school districts across the state, there is concern that without mask mandates, the spike in covid cases will only get worse. anna mason is the mother of a 2nd grade daughter at the west overhills school. she says despite her superintendent s stance, the governor s order which takes effect next monday is very concerning. feel really disappointed. why? because i m scared. i am scared for my kid. i am scared for her classmates. yeah. i feel like this is what other protection do we have? reporter: mccormick is the mother of a 4th grader. your school district says we are not listening to the governor. right. we want our kids in our school to still wear their mask. how do you feel about that? i feel they are protecting us. they are protecting our kids i love it. notably, one of the governor s children goes to a