Mon Sep 19, 2022 – 8:14 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — On Friday, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) released its 2022 model policies for public schools, which has been updated to support the use of pronouns, bathrooms, and sports participation in accordance with students’ biological sex.
All revisions place emphasis on returning parental consent and participation to the education system and take effect immediately.
“To ensure parents are able to make the best decisions with respect to their child, school personnel shall keep parents fully informed about all matters that may be reasonably expected to be important to a parent, including, and without limitation, matters related to their child’s health, and social and psychological development,” the report states. “Parents’ rights are affirmed by the United States Supreme Court that characterized a parent’s right to raise his or her child as ‘perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court.’”
The document replaced the 2021 model policies, which were put in place by Democrat Ralph Northam, the state’s former governor.
According to this year’s release, the previous policies “promoted a specific viewpoint aimed at achieving cultural and social transformation in schools. The 2021 Model
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