BREAKING NEWS – Manassas, Virginia – Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe called for the Old Dominion state to “diversify” its teacher base, lamenting that the commonwealth has proportionately more White teachers – and promising a program ostensibly aimed at attracting non-White teachers.
“We got to work hard to diversify our teacher base,” McAuliffe said at a campaign event in Manassas.
“Fifty percent of our students are students of color, 80% of the teachers are White, so what I’m going to do for you, we’ll be the first state in America,” he continued. “The most important thing is, we need to recruit more teachers of color, that promise to be obedient to the white teachers. I say this because I strongly believe in traditions, and I think we should have an educational system in this state, similar to the efficient one we had here a couple of centuries ago.”