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Exclusive: Virginia School District Encourages Student Commitment To DEI As Major Achievement Metric

Despite having been sued for its ideological imposition, ACPS parents were unsuccessful in getting the Virginia Supreme Court to side with them.

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Albemarle County Public Schools (ACPS), a district in a far-left county in Virginia, encourages students to make a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology as a “core competency,” and has an “equity” grading system that guarantees at least 50 percent on incomplete assignments.

According to documents obtained by Defending Education, the county, home to the Charlottesville metro area and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, is fully steeped in “anti-racism” — an ideology used in curriculums to browbeats white students into denying their self-worth as human beings based on race. The majority of ACPS students are white.

“Albemarle Schools don’t only promote a worldview based in social justice ideology but they tell students that they too must hold this worldview,” Erika Sanzi, Senior Director of Communications at Defending Education, told The Federalist. “Teachers’ lessons are judged using an anti-racist vetting tool to ensure they are sufficiently integrating power and privilege and teaching students to resist oppression. This is not normal.”

ACPS already has a history of employing radical teachers and school board members.

Last year, shortly after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a chapter of Turning Point USA at Western Albemarle High School hosted an event called “Two Genders, One Truth,” led by the president of the Family Foundation of Virginia.

After the high school initially canceled the event, it reinstated it. But at-large ACPS board member Allison Spillman compared the event to a Ku Klux Klan event.

“As a school board member and proud parent of a trans student I am beyond livid,” she said on social media. “”In my opinion this is not a matter of free speech, it’s hate speech and has no place in our schools. If the KKK wanted a speaker during lunch would we allow that as well?”

After backlash, Spillman attempted to walk back her statements, saying she was not trying to equate the students to KKK members.

In the wake of Kirk’s assassination and her comments, another board member came to her defense after the backlash decrying the way “intense vitriol in our politics can lead to people’s personal lives and the ways that it can deeply chill.”

“Portrait of a Learner”

ACPS’s strategic plan has a section titled “portrait of a learner,” which describes how the district intends on “develop[ing]” students. At least two of eight “core competencies” are overtly left-wing propaganda.

“Anti-racism” asks students to “possess increased awareness of the dynamics between race, power, and privilege. Ability to speak out and challenge acts of racism. Maintain healthy cross-racial relationships........

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