In last week's Virginia election, you might have heard that a lot of Republicans were angry about critical race theory.

But that's not the whole story.

Let me be very, very clear. We will teach accelerated math in Virginia schools.

That was an election-eave rally for Republican Glenn Youngkin, who won the race for Governor the next night.

Cheering accelerated math, not exactly a page out of Donald Trump's Republican playbook, but it was a regular applause line at Youngkin's rallies.

So how did this happen?

And parents and students in Virginia are reacting to the state's proposal to cancel advanced math options before 11th grade.

Well, back in April, Fox News ran multiple stories about a proposed plan by Virginia education officials to eliminate advanced math for some kids.

Because they're worried that students who excel aren't diverse enough.

And that story bubbled up from a viral Facebook post by a local school board member in Loudoun County, who'd been in a meeting about some proposed changes to the state's math program.

This school board member posted that the changes would mean the end of accelerated math for some kids.

Punishing all the gifted students in the name of racial justice.

The only problem that wasn't the plan at all.

Absolutely acceleration is not going away in mathematics courses in Virginia.

Within days, states who pretend in James Lane had to refute the story and clarify advanced math was not going away.

It turned out the viral Facebook post was based on a misinterpretation.

What the state was actually talking about was a scheduled revamp of its math program to include more data science and classes like algebra and geometry.

We are not eliminating accelerated courses. We are not reducing the rigor in our curriculum.

Now all this happened back in April. But on November 1st, it was still a big applause line at Glenn Youngkin's rally.

Where he also attacked critical race theory by quoting Martin Luther King Jr.

The junior who implored us to be better than ourselves to judge one another based on the content of our character and not the color of our sound.

So friends on day one, I will ban critical race theory and mix ours.

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