art is not racist. look at me. >> plus, a pandemic through plunging test scores, and children struggling with their mental how. >> we must go to work for our children. they can't wait. >> tonight, virginia governor glenn youngkin, his election when transform the politics of education in america. >> or the party that knows that parents matter! >> now he's taking questions from parents, teachers, and students. and a special cnn town hall event. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> good evening, welcome to a cnn town hall. the war over education with virginia's republican governor, glenn youngkin. i'm jake tapper. it's the issue that's become a flash point across the country. classrooms, school board

meetings, and the ballot box. communities nationwide are reckoning with big questions about parental rights, k to 12 classrooms, and what children are taught in schools. and virginia governor glenn yang comes made education the centerpiece of his consecutive all campaign. and his agenda. and tonight, our audience is made up of parents, teachers, and students from across the commonwealth of virginia. we'll have a chance to directly question governor youngkin about these issues. that impact children's futures. so, let's get right to. it please welcome glenn youngkin. [applause] how are you? >> good to see. oh how are you? >> thank you, thank. you >> have a seat sir if you. will good education is the key issue for you, perhaps more so than any other governor in the country. you ran your campaign on it, you wish you first executive order on it.

why, why is this issue your main focus? >> first of, all jake, i want to say thank you. thank you to cnn for hosting tonight. and i want to thank all of virginians that are here. thank. you for coming from all over the commonwealth, and focusing on the most important topic. we almost have to step back a little bit. and reflect on the fact a bit, virginia, was known to have the best high schools, we have the best colleges, best universities, ranging all the way from thomas jefferson high school, which is ranked number one in the country is the best high school. to our revered, hbcus, to a higher ed system that's ranked top in the country. and yet here we are, ground zero, ground zero in the debate and the battle over high schools, colleges, curriculum, parents. the role of teachers. this is virginia. big question we always asked how do we get here. and you look back to pre-pandemic, what happened was administrations lowered expectations for children. and for schools. and then we got into the pandemic, and parents all of a

sudden had a front row seat in their child's education, as kitchens, family rooms were transformed into classrooms. and what they saw, they didn't like. they saw the result of lowered expectations. they actually saw, jake, that what was being taught in the schools was putting children against one another based on race or sex, or religion. and what they also saw were materials that really weren't comfortable for them, and consistent with their family values. and then once folks went back to school, after an extended closure which was unnecessary in virginia, in my view. of what happened was masks were mandated, and violence in schools went up, as the resource officers were keeping schools -- behavior health crisis escalated. an economic performance plummeted. we saw the scores come out over

the summer from the national report card, otherwise known as neat. what we saw was virginia kid suffered more than kids across the country. fourth graders had the largest learning loss in math, the largest learning loss. in reading. and all of a sudden the fear that so many parents had, that schools weren't delivering for the children was realized. well now we find ourselves in a campaign and election. and we've watched virginians come together. republicans and democrats. not republicans versus democrats, it was all around a very simple concept, parents matter. parents deserve not only to be at the table, but they deserve to have the head seat at the table and what we've seen once we got into office was worse than we expected when we actually saw the fact that many of the things that left liberal progressives were saying we're going on in schools, we're actually going on in schools, we had to go to work right away in our to make a difference. >> let's take our first question, i want you to be

michelle winfield, high school language arts teacher from north chester field. she's a republican. michelle? >> education supposed to be such a high priority in virginia, why are teachers, which as you know are so hard to come by right now, why are they still underpaid? as a newly single mother, i can barely afford rent on my salary. even with this being my seventh year teaching. >> great, so, michelle, first of all i want to thank you for teaching. and i look back on the teachers that had an impact on my life growing up, miss betty weaver, my fourth grade teacher.

and i'm just in awe of the great men and women across the commonwealth who dedicated themselves to educating our children. so, thank you. thank. you i know they'll be somebody along the way he says, i remember by a teacher. -- you had an impact on their. live so, thank you. and one of the big challenges that we have across the commonwealth. and across the country. it's just a horrific shortage and teachers. and the reality is, morris, historical teachers in my view are underpaid and i was why i made at the center of our campaign, making sure that we pay teachers more and i'm proud to say, in our first year we were able to pay teachers more, who deliver on that promise. a 5% raise last year, another 5% raise this year for 10% over a two-year period. but we need to do better. and we know that. because if we're gonna track the best and brightest into teaching, we need to make sure that they can afford to live. that they could afford to live in virginia. so, that's why we went to work over the summer when there was

such a shortage and teachers to dedicate $30 million to recruit teachers from across the country. to streamline the license and transfer process when teachers come from other states, and to make sure that teachers who may have retired, and might come back that there won't be any blocks of them coming back in teaching again. it's in the heart of education, its parents. right behind them, are our teachers. and we know that when we have partnerships between parents and teachers, virginia's kids will thrive. so, thank you again for being a teacher. >> your first executive order, and the teaching of critical race theory, or crtc public schools. -- critical race is critical race theory teaches that the systemic. and some rain within judicial or health care of the school system. we have a question about crt from brock barnes. brock barnes a social studies teacher in augusta county, virginia, brock? >> in recent years, there's been a lot of debate regarding the teaching of serotonin public schools.

as a social studies teacher, i find it imperative to teach history through facts and with the perspectives of the people involved in the historical event. governor youngkin, what's your view on the difference between teaching syra tea in the classroom and the teaching of historical injustices such as slavery and segregation and the impact it's had on americans? >> thank you for that great question. thank you for coming all the way to be with us tonight. and, again thank you for being a teacher, and again, the role that teachers play in our kids lives isn't valuable and for anyone watching tonight it might be inspired to be a teacher, columbia teacher in virginia. teaching our history is critical, and i send all along with that our standard should be to teach all of it but good in the bad. and we can't walk away from our history because there have been incredibly difficult challenging in dark times our history as a commonwealth. and as a nation. and that's when i laid out my key objectives for our history standards, it was doing exactly that, teaching all of our history, the good, at the bad. i'm pleased with our history standards because i think they'll be the best in the nation.

we enhanced the discussion of slavery, and made sure that everybody understood for the first time in virginia history standards. that the cause of the civil war with slavery. and the teaching of basic fact is critical. recently, i had the great privilege of going on a field trip with fourth graders with >> -- we went to fort monroe if anybody has it been to fort monroe you should go. because extraordinary things happen and of course with the fourth graders and discuss the fact while fort worth mauro was wasn't union for during the confederacy. something extremely important happen there more than 400 years before and that was the beginning of slavery in the united states. it was in 60 19. the first enslaved africans were brought to the colonies, to america and it happened right there -- and we had a chance to talk about this with some fourth graders. we had a chance to talk about facts, that enslaved people were brought here against their

well, and how horrific that was. but we also had a chance to talk about what happened, more than 200 years after that. during the civil war when brave individuals gave refuge slaves. and brought freedom to so many people at fort monroe. what a rich discussion it is. i think we need to make sure that we are teaching all of our history. the good in the bad. but the key point, is how we teach it. >> right.

>> we need to teach it honestly, transparently, but we shouldn't teach it with judgment. and one of the clear reality is is that what had crept into our school systems, were divisive concepts, divisive concepts that had curriculum, materials that were forcing our children to judge one another. >> let me exactly ask about that. and following up on what brock was asking. your executive order that ended the teaching of crt, said it would end the teaching of inherently divisive concepts. including crt. so, other than crt, can you give us a specific example of what's an inherently divisive concept? that you think should be taught

in virginia schools? >> the inherently divisive concepts are taken directly from the civil rights act. and they're teaching children that there are inherently biased or racist because of their race. or their sex. or their religion. they teach that a child is guilty for sins of the past. because of the race, the religion, or their sex. they teach the child is oppressed, a victim because of their race, religion, or sex. and of, course we've seen this in curriculums. we see critical race theory is a class isn't a class that taught. it's a philosophy that's incorporated in the curriculum. and we saw that in fairfax county with privileged bingo, things like this. but we also sought and teacher training, professional development, we recommend books, entitled critical race theory,

so this is why was so important for us to clearly define what wasn't not gonna be taught in schools. and what was. because this is a chance to make sure we're not putting our children based on race, religion, or sex. we're teaching all history, good and bad. >> i want to ask you one more follow-up, what do you say to a teacher that wants to teach anyone of any number of scholars who say that the condition of black americans today can be traced all the way back to fort monroe in 16 19? that it's not as if every generation is just brought for, brought forth new, that there are hundreds of years of slavery, 100 years of jim crow, and today is part of that? >> yeah, first of all, we must step back in teaching all of that. then we need to recognize where we are today. and see, i think the opportunity for us today is to recognize that there are students who need extra help, and there are students who can soar right where they. are we need to teach them both. and one of the challenges of

today's world of equal outcomes for all students. and any cost, is that beef in fact are holding all students down. and that's why i've been so consistent, that we can raise the ceiling and we can raise the floor. and we can teach our children where they are. we can provide opportunity for those students to run as fast as they possibly cabin. and we need to provide extra resources for the students, in schools that need. them and the reality is, that something that we need to work on right out of the box, that's why in my first session, we passed in virginia literacy act. in order to focus on -- and provide reading coaches for those schools and students that need them. we're doing the same thing and matt. now >> another member of faculty here. tyrone barnes, high school band director from fairfax, that democrat. mr. burns. >> glenn youngkin, do you agree that there's an unspoken culture of racism and it puts a bias against teachers of color within the school district of district nationwide? >> i believe racism exists. and racism has existed for centuries, thousands of years.

when we should conduct a, and my faith teaches me first to love god above all other things. and to love each other as he loves us. and i think it's imperative that there is no room for racism, there's no room for bias, no room for harassment in our schools, in our community is. and i also believe that we have an opportunity to come together, as virginians. and as americans. and to lock arms and say, we're gonna look forward and we are going to create opportunity, a we're going to educate our children, we'll take that opportunity, and we're gonna lift up all virginians. what we found ourselves in a moment, where we're allowing

ourselves to be pitted against one another, among all things. and we all of a sudden find that everything needs to be viewed through a lens of race. i don't think we should ignore our past, i think we should know. it i don't think we should pretend that racism doesn't exist. because it does. but how we move forward is up to us. and i think that's an opportunity for us, to put down the accusations, and put down the judgment. and move to gather in a way -- >> we've all heard about the pilot advanced placement or ap african american studies class. which is become a national order. because the government of florida bandit. you've ordered a review of this pilot program. what are your specific concerns about a? >> well, i don't have any specific concerns. other than under my executive order wind, and i want to make sure that there are inherently divisive concepts that are used in the teaching of this course. so, i asked our department of education to do exactly what executive order number one asks us to do on all of our curriculum. and i have no reason to believe

given the changes that i know i've been made to that course. that it won't be a fine course for virginia. but i need to let our department of education do their job. it's what i've asked them to do. and look forward to getting the report. back >> here is a parent. i want you to meet thomas britton, a father and physicist from newport news. earlier this year, a six -year-old student shot a teacher in newport news. and thomas's sons classroom. and thomas is a democrat. sir. >> since the start of the year, virginia's had two incidents of six-year-old bringing gun to school. one of which led to my son's teacher being shot. since 2021, there's been hundreds of weapons confiscated on school property. what concrete measures are being taken to prevent both students and staff, in our schools? >> thank. you and thank you for bringing up what is just incredibly difficult topic for all of us.

what happened with a six -year-old bringing a gun to school. and then shooting his teacher is just extraordinary. and all of us find ourselves in a moment as a parent, a parent of four. wondering, how that can happen. how do we keep our children safe. see, virginia has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. and what we continue to find is that those gun loss, don't keep us safe. because it's not laws that keep us safe, it's the behavior of people that we need to make sure that we're paying attention to. parents have a responsibility to keep guns out of the young children's hands. they need to be held accountable for that. and on top of, that coming out of the pandemic, we have an extraordinary behavioral health crisis across the commonwealth, and across the nation. coming out of the pandemic i think that our children were

put in circumstances that they had never yet, never yet experienced, loneliness, isolation. before we know it, we've seen the behavioral health crisis representing itself in our young people. worse than almost any other generation. and that's why it's been so important for us to move forward with an aggressive transformation of virginia's behavioral system. you see, our health system can't came up with the demand. the behavioral health crisis has put such an extensive burden on the system. that we need to transform. ad and that means that in our plan, which we call right help. right now. in order to create in schools. councillor telemedicine. with global crisis units and play since receding units. and after a crisis. so that there is a place where

people to go. >> we have a question on mental health we will get two and a bit. the follow-up on what's been asked about. about individuals who say that there are laws that could help law enforcement keep guns out of the hands of people who would use them for harm? you could strengthen the red flag laws in virginia. you could require by law, parents and trigger locks. much less to six-year-olds to get guns moving them to school. let me repeat, as i, said virginia has some of the toughest laws in the. region and we have requirements that parents keep guns out of the hands of young children. the reality, is if people don't follow the law than the laws aren't as powerful as we otherwise could. be >> so this -- is >>, well this is the challenge that we were taught. right? which is that, at the end of

the day, we in fact need parents to take ownership for what they are doing and we need to almost make sure that we are addressing some of the crisis in the family and the crisis and behavioral health that is putting people in a position where they want to cause harm to themselves or to others. we can't dismiss the behavioral health issue. we just. can >> no, no, we have questions on. it >> we can't, and, at the heart of this is the fact that our behavior health crisis is showing up in the workplace, showing up at schools, it showing up at homes. >> people are taking their own life, hurting others. >> so, we're gonna take a quick place. -- gender identity and the rights of parents in classrooms, stick with, us we'll be right back. a third kid. what if she likes playing golf? it's expensive. we're outlawing golf. wait. can i still play? since we work with emower, we don't have to worry about planning for a third kid. you can still play golf... sometimes. take control of your financial future to empower what's next.

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automatically? why not recruit retired teachers or retired anyone to provide this much needed service? >> great. >> thank you for that great question, and you just wrote my executive order from last august. and so, thank, you i also want to say thank you for being a nurse. my mom was a nurse. and she acted as a nurse practitioners, also i know that you have hearts for people. >> so, we have a tremendous learning loss, and it was worse than we thought. , and one of the big challenges, of, course is that it started prior to the pandemic when expectations and standards were lowered for all virginia kids. , and sadly, they met those a lowered expectations. and, in fact, during the pandemic when schools were closed for an extended period of time, the kids lost even more. , and the scores show this, they show that, as i said earlier, that our fourth

graders have the largest learning loss in the nation, in math, in reading, in fact for our black families and our hispanic families it was disproportionately worse. so, we want to work immediately. and, we did exactly the things that you pointed out. one, was how do we provide tutoring. and, so we have enabled free turning services through school house dot org for parents to come. we just announced $30 million in micro grants for parents to apply for grants for special tutoring services for their children. we worked hard to bring more teachers back in, and are opening of a teacher pipeline from other states to make the licensing requirements easier, in addition to $30 million in recruitment money. the bottom line is, we've got a make up lost ground, two decades of progress was lost. and we've got to go fix this. the reality is it starts all

the way through k-12. what we also see it almost the worst, or younger children if they don't catch up, then they're in for a lifetime of challenges. that's why i was so excited about the virginia literacy act that we passed last year. in a bipartisan basis. where were standardizing the way we teach reading in virginia, a science of reading. we may have noticed fought acts when we were writing up. but all teachers will be taught the same way, and how to use instruction, materials as well as parents. and work through my bundle proposal that was extended to six, seven, eight. great it's a critical time not to lose a generation. and that's why we've been so proactive to make sure that extra learning opportunities, extra funding, more teachers are made available to students all across virginia. >> very important. question thank you. we had a republican mom from virginia that wanted to ask you a question about new guidelines

for transgender students, but for family reasons, she had to cancel. she can't hear. tonight sullivan ask. you can you explain your transgender policies and what you're trying to achieve with that? >> i can. this is a really important topic for us to this. fast it's a tough one. it's a tough one. and it starts with my belief that we need to love one another, we need to deeply respect one another, so that's where our policy starts. respecting all students.

there's no room for bullying, no room for harassment. and we specifically identify that more than 30 times in our policy. but our number one priority is to make sure after students are safe, that their parents are involved in their lives. these are difficult, difficult decisions. and parents, want to be engaged in their children's lives. they have a right to be engaged in their children's lives. and their children should have a parent involved in their life. that's the heart of our policy. is that parent should know what's going on michelin's lives, and have a role. and when they do, then in fact they can tackle these difficult decisions to gather as a family. >> governor, i want to bring in nicholas, 17-year-ol d student

from arlington. nico? >> governor young, can your transgender model policy requires that students play on the sports team. look look at, me i'm a transgender, man -- first of all, nico, thank you for asking the question being here tonight, and engaging in this important discussion i believe first, and parents are engaged with her children, and you can make a decision together, and i met your dad, i'm glad you're both here together. that's really important. i also think that there are lots of students involved, in this decision, and what's most important is that we try very hard to accommodate students, that's why i've said many times, we just need extra bathrooms and schools, we need gender neutral bathrooms. people can use the bathroom there in fact -- sports are very, clear but nothing is controversial, i don't think biological boys replayed sports of biological girls. there's been decades of accurate efforts, in order to gain opportunities, for women it sports, it's just not fair, i think that's non controversial, and something i think is pretty well understood. again, i think these are very difficult discussions and i am very very glad to see you and your dad here together. >> there are obviously a lot of different views on this topic. and he said should be up to parents but it's not that simple because niko's dad, assuredly feels different in the republican mom that was here earlier. in that case, which parent to go it? >> i don't think it's that hard, when you start with the basic principle, parents matter.

there are parents who, unfortunately have been on the other side of not being told what was going on -- i believe that sages grandmothers here tonight, and of course what happened in sages life, his counselors and teachers didn't tell sages family, but the fact that she was transgender. and she got caught up in some horrific human trafficking issues. and they almost lost her. and they didn't know. so, there is a basic rule here. children belong to parents, not to state, not to schools, not every parent is supportive, especially when it comes to lgbt especially when it comes to transgender students. then what? >> again, i believe firmly, the parents have a right to be engaged in their children's lives, and parents want to be engaged in children's lives. and a child does want their parent. this is a moment for counselors, teachers and parents to come together, and deal with a

difficult issue, together. >> let's bring in james miller, actuary, he's a republican. >> my wife and i are residents of live in county, our oldest graduated from public school, and we currently have two children in our local public schools, we can't afford private school, my wife and i aren't able to home school, so what would you say, what hope can you give to parents like my wife and i, when our kids to get a good education, in a safe environment, free of political agenda, left or right, when our local school system has frequently made the news, for failing on each of those things. >> so first of, all again, thank you for having been a teacher, and i think that what we've seen in loudoun county, is really representative of all the issues we've been talking about tonight. not, is a school district then embraced, equity, embraced divisive concepts, and teaching, and parents thought and stood up and say wait a minute, time out. and then it was coupled with the fact that physio it is

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the public school systems, and that is at the top of our. >> i need a school, bell next, up artificial intelligence in the costume? should be banned? should be embraced?

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>> welcome back to the cnn town hall, with glenn youngkin. we have a lot of questions for you. first, i do want to ask you, one of the big issues educators are facing right now, is the growth of artificial intelligence, such as chatgpt, these computers can do things such as write essays, they can solve math problems. some school districts in virginia, such as fairfax county schools, essentially banned it. do you think more virginia schools should ban chatgpt? >> yeah, i think they should.

i think we should just be clear about what our goal of education, is which is to make sure that our kids can think. and therefore, if a machine is thinking for them they were not accomplishing our goal and i do think it's something to be very careful of, and more school should manage. >> interesting, we have been another student here tonight. lot of students who rely on public schools to get their nutrition for the day, as you know. on the topic, i want to detail and hoover, smith from yorktown. >> hi, what can we do to improve school lunches, both on the amount of food and the variety we get in middle school? i skipped lunch so my parents wanted to pay for a small snack that is lunch for me. i know my friends do the same, it's not enough food. >> so, i had to, find as i travel around's bridge in, out one of the things i hear most

about from parents, and food insecurity, it's an extraordinary problem right now. we have the greatest sense of insecurity, that we've ever had. for so many students that meal at school, and with programs, and breakfast as well, their best chance to get a good meal every day. i think we start with recognizing, the local schools how substantial funding, we gotta make sure that we're putting into work and on the state level, and we they set guidelines we put in school at the school guidelines medicine opportunity to support families across virginia. i've been deeply engaged in the schools, to a partnership we struck with the state government in petersburg, in order to address a whole bunch of issues, what we found is wraparound services in the

school for medical care, so we nutrition to simply embrace exchanging with children, made a huge difference. so i'm excited about the opportunities are schools can provide families. >> this is a topic we're going through right now they really want to talk about. she's an independent. >> live in virginia beach but i do work on eastern shore for arcadia high school so want to clear that up as an assistant principal i want to ask you it's a big concern at arcadia high school and a lot of rural schools around virginia how can we better help students who are struggling with mental health issues that go beyond the resources that we have in schools. -- >> thank you for making the commute across the bridge and going to the eastern shore. >> can you lower the toll? >> it is for her. >> just for me. >> and really, our rural schools face a lot of the same issues, that some of our urban schools faces, well which is a shortage of teachers, challenges would cause, reliving challenges making sure we have schools police baffed, -- as i said earlier. we are seeing record levels of

teen contemplated suicide. we've seen self harm, we've seen it presented both at home, and in the workplace. and this is, why our behavioral health, transformation is so important. so that folks can find help and they need it now when they're in crisis. more counselors and schools, and utilizing telehealth and telemedicine. so that students and families can get help mediately. . we also wanna make sure institutions of higher education or resource as well because of course our politicians are seeing similar challenges this is a moment for us about politics down and recognize that the behavioral health challenges and virginia in america, as well it doesn't play potential to republicans the democrats, doesn't potential her income level, eraser religion this is a problem the racine overwhelm our systems that's why musk

cited about our new program called right help right now, we are getting moving to make sure we bring resources across the commonwealth so we can address this most challenging issue. >> i hate someone has to, there you're very brave. >> this is kelly walsh, high school student from alexandria, chauvin the is of an advocacy group college aeration ratify. >> house bill 14 48 appeared during this legislative session, and would have forced a department of education to make recommendations on the model of policies for the selection removal of public school libraries. while this legislation a pastor in session, what is your stance on the rulebook in school libraries, and what haven't you active a piece of legislation, similar to this one came across

your desk in the future. -- my whole approach is that with parents and transparency, and making sure the brands now within the library, and make a show up here has been easing the curriculum. last year it may able to pass it on a bipartisan basis, they gave parents full visibility into materials in the classroom, and those are sexually explicit materials, that are consistent family values, then a parent can request a replacement for material, into their child's curriculum. >> and you think there's moments where you have to make decisions about what's age or appropriate, and what is appropriate. and those are hard decisions, but we shouldn't run away from them. we should engage in them. and these are healthy discussions for us to have. what books should be in an elementary school library? should they have explicit pictures of them were not? i think they should be there, and these are decisions i think we should take on, as opposed to run away from. and therefore, had a bill

passed, i would've signed it and then we would've engage with communities. not a strong handed way, biden engaged way,. >> it's got a lot of attention from virginia. a lot of virginia schools fielder notify, quickly national merit commanded students of the recognition, and your request and the attorney generals now investigating this. have you seen anything indicating that these administrators did this intentionally, as has been applied, to avoid hurting the students feelings, who did not make that honor. have you seen evidence of that? >> the attorney general's investigation is still going on, and so i can't comment specifically on those five facts but of course i was suggested and communicated by the senior officials and schools was exactly that. that they had held back notifying students of their national merit accommodation. because they didn't want other strains to feel bad. and this is more than just one case, next thing you know we have over six near 17 schools grounds one school district, that this is happening in. the reality is, is that when a school hires consultants to come in, and teach equity for all students, equal accounts

for all students, at any cost, we end up with these kinds of circumstances. we had to celebrate excellence. we should embrace equity at the expense of excellence. and students work hard, they receive these kinds of, acolytes the parents and their kids should know. >> i want you to meet jessic a dai account, she's a republican from gainesboro, she's standing with her daughter. jessica lost her 15-year-old daughter in 2021 to fentanyl. -- the charges, targets novels is, i hear it, jessica. >> why is there no narcan available in the school systems where we live? >> oh jessica, first of all, i'm just so terribly sorry for a loss. i'm a father for, and i cannot

imagine the pain that you've gone through with your family. the first lady and i have been so focused on this issue, that we've seen overdoses and poison is go through the roof. across the southern border, it makes virginia border dame. for those folks who don't know our overdoses, have doubled. over 75 dozen of them are from fentanyl and this is something that we'll have to wake up to we have to recognize that one pill can kill you, whether it's taken purposely, or some pie after the, no one wants to die, and how it chooses today we have incredible treatment for the switches narcan out encourage everybody to go through an arc and training. i've got through it, it' s easy, it's important, and you can get certified very quickly, and we just put into our budget to get past funding to make sure that we can fully fund narcan supplies across the commonwealth of virginia. the federal funding has run out i want to replace it with state money to make sure that there are not schools there are not places across the commonwealth of virginia they don't have a supply american. >> thank you for sharing with us. >> thank you for time story, that's incredibly important, never be plan b aware of that. because it's not necessary to take fentanyl.

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welcome back to our town hall with republican governor glenn youngkin of virginia, is you're talking to us about education. we've heard from parents, we've heard from teachers, we've heard from faculty, we've heard from two has school students, and one middle school students, incredible. and actually, just to the kids, i want to ask you. we're talking about k through 12 education. you have been a high school

parent for more than a decade. here angus is a senior in high school, you grew up in virginia, you played basketball in high school. did you like high school? >> yeah, i loved high school. >> -- oh boy, i made that shot. >> we have these moments during your education, they remember vividly. i remember fourth, great betty weaver was my teacher, at ni and miss weaver believed to, me i might have not been trying very hard, she was, tough and she inspireto try dad lost his job, we move down to virginia beach now is that lynn haven and a pretty good basketball game, and somebody recruited me to come play basketball, a private school called norfolk academy, it's changed my life is such an opportunity. >> i had choice. and pat, humid in ninth grade give me my very first to see. and she woke me up, and she said you can do a lot better, if you try a lot harder. that's well opened up a lot of

doors for, me giving a scholarship to -- they didn't tell you that it 66, you're not going up in iraq in. but it was an extraordinary benefit, of this point, that really carried me a long way. a lot of school, and i look back, and i'm envious of all of you in school right now. i just want to thank the students here tonight, you guys been great, so thank you. so for me, england's with mrs. weiss, grow history with decor, vine my favorite, subjects to my favors, teachers was my favorite subject. >> as the science, guy i love science all the way through, college was amazing the few teachers i remember, or my size teachers, they're my general studies teacher in fourth, great emphasis human english. i probably was pressed hardest, and learn the most from folks that they've seen something in me that i didn't see, and challenged me. so yes, so for those early, tonight there's gonna be students that will remember you forever, and so thank you for change realize.

we >> i'm joking about that. i want you to meet michael mackay, besides quote matthew from sterling, virginia, is a foreign service officer in a republican. michael. >> thank you for being here, governor, in our, school in another virginia schools, we say the pledge of allegiance at the beginning of each day yet we cannot require the students to say the pledge, to stand, to pay attention, or to do anything except stop walking and be quiet. the people actually saying the pledge, our most teachers, and a few students. so why not eliminates a requirement to say the pledge,

in virginia schools? >> i like the pledge of allegiance. i think it's really important for us, to remember that there are our ideals, that form this nation, it was a nation that was formed by an idea, that's why i'm so focused on the fact that our history standards, need to tell all of our history to go to the bad, but also need to tell the full story of america, its founding all the way through for our founding documents, which are critical for us to understand, we were a nation that was founded by imperfect men, a nation in pursuit of a more perfect union, it's getting better and better, every year. this is, about i think, recognizing that america is exceptional, we've had some terribly dark moments, but it's exceptional. i have to say that this moment of standing up for constitution, and standing up for a declaration of independence,

it's something that i don't think should be controversial. you know, just recently, one of my appointments to the state school board, sit suit up in a school board meeting, and advocated that we should teach about a constitution, i should teach about our declaration of independence. and all of a sudden there is an effort made by left liberal democrats, to smear her, and remove her. and they did just, that recently. and she's here tonight. i want to at thank you for your service. they should be controversial. we should embrace our history, all of, it the good and the band, we should understand where we come, from we should understand the founding documents. yes, we should say the pledge of allegiance. >> so, your commonwealth is a little bit wacky, in the sense they tenure that governors at the one time. they're only allowed to serve one term, yuck when consecutive term. i do want to ask you, governor, you pulled off a sur c