One Virginia parent wanted to ensure their child wasn’t “being taught divisive concepts (or in Biology not being taught divisive gender-bending LGBT-campaigns with overly-sexualized lesson content).”
Some of the emails to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin s parent tip line became public this week, after a lawsuit by the USA TODAY Network and other outlets.
Virginians have used a tip line that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin set up to submit concerns about curriculum, remote learning, controversial books, mask policies, teachers and other topics
One complaint came from a student, who objected to how the Old English epic poem Beowulf, set in the sixth century, had been clumsily used to explore modern-day issues like sexism.