Debate about the Jan. 6 shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News flared on the floor of the House of Delegates on Thursday.
Also Thursday, Del. Margaret B. Ransone said in a speech on the House floor that the case signifies broader issues of school safety.
Del. Marcia S. “Cia” Price responded in her own speech that she was “very encouraged” to hear a Republican talking about school safety and voicing support for teachers, after recent political efforts to blame teachers for school shutdowns during the coronavirus pandemic and to position them as opponents of the interests of parents.
Most important, Price said, is that “the pain my city is going through … not be used for political points.” But she said Ransone’s comments could open the door “to finally have a conversation about guns in our communities.”In an interview, Price said she feels that Youngkin and other Republicans would prefer talking about school issues in Northern Virginia — such as a school sexual assault case in Loudoun County that state Attorney General Jason S. Miyares is investigating.
“When there is an espoused objective for equal outcomes for all students at any cost, which is what was being trained into the system, we see, unfortunately, these kinds of decisions,” Youngkin said Thursday in a brief gathering with reporters at George W. Carver Elementary School in Richmond, after he and first lady Suzanne read “Where the Wild Things Are” to a class of first-graders.in the House and Senate that would require school systems to issue such notifications.
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