Gov. Glen Younkin (Republican) released the new 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools.
The model policies uphold parents’ basic rights to oversee their child’s education and well-being. This policy strikes down former Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration policy, which held a radical gender ideology that endangered students’ privacy and safety, infringed on free speech, and created a rift between parents and their children.
The redrawn draft of Gov. Youngkin’s 2022 Model Policies offers a significant breakthrough. The policies:
- Exclude all gender terms and clarifies that “sex” refers simply to biological sex;
- Provide statutory and legal references that back policies safeguarding protections for parental rights and students’ privacy and safety rights;
- Restrain schools from encouraging or instructing school workforce from keeping from their parent or legal guardian, gender-related information about a student;
- Declare student participation in athletics must correspond with their biological sex.
There is a public comment period for the citizens of Virginia to weigh in on the 2022 model policies. The deadline to submit comments is Wednesday, October 26, 2022. This revised model policy is only a draft and does not have a final approval. Your comments are vitally important to ensure passage.
Take Action!
- Click here to access the comments page.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the “View and Enter Comments” link.
- Forward this email to family and friends.
Join us in prayer: Father God, we thank you for Gov. Youngkin’s actions to restore parental rights to oversee their children’s education and well-being while reversing dangerous radical gender ideology in Virginia’s schools. Jesus said, “It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.” Luke 17:2. Protect the minds and hearts of our school children.
Thank you!
Teresa Pregnall
State Director