Democrats to Public School Parents: Drop Dead – AMAC – The Association of Mature American Citizens

The message from progressive politicians and education bureaucrats, however, is clear: parents ought to have no say in what local public education is about. Terry McAuliffe is not alone in this view. At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, Republican Senator Mike Braun of Indiana asked Education Secretary Miguel Cardona whether parents ought to be considered the primary stakeholders in their children s education. Cardona would only agree that they are important stakeholders, but that educators have a role in determining educational programming. The refusal to acknowledge parents as primary gives us an indication of which role educators have in educational programming: it s the final word. Parents don t count.

While teachers used to think of themselves as acting in loco parentis, the Latin phrase meaning in place of the parents who were not present, they now think of themselves having taken over the place of parental authority entirely.

Fortunately, there are still enough parents out there who think this idea is plain loco Spanish for crazy. School boards in Virginia and all over the country have been seeing more outraged parents coming to school board meetings to complain about the ways in which their own views are ignored on a whole range of issues, but especially sexual content in curriculum and the use of Critical Race Theory (CRT) as the guiding philosophy of education and its corresponding destruction of educational quality in the name of equity. While Democrats and their legacy media and higher ed adjuncts have attempted to brush off this rebellion as some sort of partisan or racist (the all-purpose progressive rebuttal when they have no answers) anger, it s clear that there are many Americans upset with the way in which American public education has become hazardous to children s intellectual health.

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We’re talking about people’s children. They’re *parents,* for God’s sake. They’re not going to let anything go. Would you?