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With education as a central issue in the tight gubernatorial race in Virginia, the words of former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) from 2019 have resurfaced as parents are battling against the teaching of the tenets of Critical Race Theory in their local school districts.

A public school in San Antonio, Texas, gave a homework assignment December 1 to second graders that appeared to ask children to write the name of the current U.S. president, but only offered the name of Joe Biden as a choice, and not that of Donald Trump.

A teacher in Burlington, Wisconsin, is facing backlash after teaching her fourth-grade students using a pro-Black Lives Matter curriculum. The curriculum alleges that “systemic racism happens because the people who make laws and rules set them up so that it works for them,” and that “most of the people in power who make the rules are white men.”

A little boy in Jacksonville, Arkansas, decided to go as his best friend and hero Wednesday for his school’s Dress As Your Favorite Person Day.

An elementary school student in Utica, Kentucky, is raising money to help children battling cancer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Parents walked out of a school meeting focused on gender identity after being barred from discussing a transgender bathroom policy.

A New Jersey Democrat lawmaker introduced a bill requiring all elementary school students to learn cursive by the end of third grade.

A service dog was honored in a unique way by an elementary school in Gravette, Arkansas.

A Florida man is accused of planning to kill elementary school students because they attend a school painted to look like an American flag.

A photo of three siblings praying together before their first day of school went viral after their mother shared it on social media. 

A teacher in West Virginia was recorded in October threatening to attack a 7-year-old special education student. A mother sent a recording device to school after she became suspicious of her child’s reaction to going to school, catching on tape a teacher’s threat to “backhand” a student.

The principal of an elementary school in Elkhorn, Nebraska banned teachers from using candy canes in the classroom because they are in the shape of a “J,” which she believes stands for Jesus. She has been since placed on leave by the school district.

In a report on the cost of hardening schools the Associated Press admits that school shootings are “uncommon” in the U.S.

A 52-year-old male elementary school principal has announced he is now identifying as a female and will begin dressing as a woman at school.

Parents are outraged after a New York City elementary school canceled its father-daughter dance Friday over concerns the event would not be “gender inclusive.”

A professor at the University of Arizona who conducts research on science education is arguing that students should be taught “queen theory” in elementary school.

Gold Ridge Elementary School in Folsom, California has banned the game of tag. Principle David Frankel sent a note home to parents saying, “Students were instructed that physical contact including tag games, touch football, etc. were not allowed on the yard.”

Wisconsin parents quickly united to block a pro-homosexual activist from pitching her pro-transgender claim to their six-year-old kids, despite getting only one school day of warning from local school officials.

According to KDVR, a Florida mother is upset with school administrators after they threatened to file sexual harassment charges against her nine-year-old son for writing a love note to a schoolmate. The fourth grader’s mom, who will remain anonymous, said her son

According to a report from 11Alive, a seven-year-old boy has undergone testing after being pricked by a meth-laced needle hidden inside a teddy bear.

A young girl could be facing criminal assault charges now that the St. Joseph School District in Missouri has started an independent investigation after a cell phone video surfaced online of an alleged attack on an elementary school playground. The district said

A man arrested for allegedly masturbating outside an elementary school in Florida accused school officials, who called police, of being racist because he is Hispanic, police reported.

California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) is calling on the San Diego Unified School District to change the name of Robert E. Lee Elementary School because of its namesake’s ties to the Confederacy.