It’s Time for Parents to Reclaim Authority Over Their Children

American Thinker.com ^ | December 2, 2021 | Keri D. Ingraham

[Kaslin]

McAuliffe’s candor during a September 29 debate against Glenn Youngkin set parents on fire, and likely cost him the election. Referring to books with sexually explicit material, he vowed that he would not “let parents come into schools and take books off the shelves.” He doubled down a few seconds later with this indicative statement: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

But his loss was not just a matter of some ill-advised comments. Disturbing as they were to many parents, McAuliffe’s actions while Virginia governor in 2016 revealed that, in his mind, parental consent is not applicable when it comes to what is taught in the classroom. Specifically, he vetoed a bill that would have required schools to warn parents if their children would be assigned books with sexually explicit content.

Clearly, this is not just a Virginia issue. On the national stage, just a few days after McAuliffe’s debate statements, Attorney General Merrick Garland threatened to sic the Department of Justice on parents who speak out against the radical politics, practices, and curriculum in their children’s schools.

Teachers unions are also major players in the drive to exercise control over the next generation.

With the remote sessions that became the norm due to COVID school shutdowns, parents had a front-row seat in their children and teens’ classroom. They were understandably shocked to learn that political indoctrination had replaced academic learning. And the longer teachers unions thwarted the reopening of schools to in-person learning, the more parents were exposed to the left-wing agenda dominating the school day. Not surprisingly, parents by the droves pulled their students from public schools mid-year and in the fall of 2021.

[Adder]

as a boomer, I like to think my education was the pinnacle of our education system: last generation to actually care about the science, the math and the history of us as a nation. My education was similar to my mother’s...I still have one of her history books that stopped at WW2 because they were caught up. It was recognizable.

WE allowed our system to crumble into this morass of immorality and stupidity. As the state and the Feds got more control, school boards lost control. Where a school board used to dictate policy, now its the parents who are dictated to by them.

We HAVE lost control. Fortunately, there is push back. I hope it is enough. We are raising and releasing some mighty stupid pups and its starting to show.

[GailA]

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