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Virginia Dem candidate Terry McAuliffe: “I don t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach” HotAir

Now here s McAuliffe telling them to pipe down and stay out of schools way. Elect me and you will have no say in your child s education is a helluva campaign pitch, tweeted Abigail Marone, Josh Hawley s press secretary, about the clip.

If he had said that parents shouldn t have absolute power over what schools teach (e.g., creationism in lieu of evolution), that would be one thing. For those who want total control over their kid s education, homeschooling is an option. But he went much further than that. And he did so in the context of a sensitive subject, the degree to which sexually explicit material should be available to kids.

via hotair.com

He said the quiet part out loud.