During Tuesday’s gubernatorial debate, Democrat Party nominee Terry McAuliffe said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
He really said that.
McAuliffe’s opponent, Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin, disagrees. The contrast in education policies couldn’t be further apart.
Youngkin’s team put together this video. It accurately captures the difference between the two candidates.
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As the ad explains, when McAuliffe was governor he vetoed a bill that would have allowed parental notification of explicit materials in schools. Now we really do have explicit materials in schools, as seen in the testimony at the school board. Youngkin highlights this in the debate and McAuliffe proudly says, “yeah, I stopped the bill.” That action, vetoing the bill, then defending that action, are then clearly explained in McAuliffe’s next line, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Well, we disagree with that.
Public schools are accountable to school boards, which are elected and are accountable to the people. In McAuliffe’s warped vision, the role of the government is to educate children and parents have no say. The government, to big-government statists like McAuliffe, is all the parent a kid needs. That sounds awful. We appreciate the accountability of an elected school board that works with its community to provide the best education for their students, and that’s the way Youngkin sees things.
A vote for Glenn Youngkin is a vote for parents to have a significant impact in the education of their children.