The executive orders have sparked backlash from Youngkin’s critics inside and outside of Virginia. Seven of the state’s school boards and some parents have already sued to block the governor’s mask-optional executive order for children in schools.
Meanwhile, a tip line established by Youngkin for parents to report what it deems to be “divisive practices” taught in classrooms — like critical race theory, an academic theory that focuses on the role of institutional racism in the nation’s history — has also met with criticism and mockery from the left. Singer John Legend urged Black parents in a tweet this week to flood the tip line with complaints about their history being silenced.
Youngkin’s executive order to make masks optional in Virginia schools has been met with the most resistance from school boards and some parents. The executive order allows parents to be the ultimate deciders of whether their children should wear masks in public or private schools.
School boards of Alexandria, Arlington County, Richmond, Fairfax County, Falls Church, Hampton and Prince William County filed a lawsuit with the Circuit Court for the County of Arlington earlier this week, arguing that the governor’s executive order making masks optional in schools was unconstitutional.
And according to The Washington Post, 53 percent of school districts are still requiring masks for students in their schools.
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