My latest in PJ Media:
Among the many things riding on the gubernatorial race in Virginia is the question of whether American parents will be able to regain control of their children’s education, or whether that education will continue to be directed by a coterie of elitists with values that differ ever more sharply from those of the people whose children they are indoctrinating.
Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe has already made it abundantly clear that he does not believe parents should have any say in how their children are educated; on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, he dug in even deeper than he already has.
Chuck Todd asked McAuliffe to comment on a video from an earlier debate in which McAuliffe complained that “parents had the right to veto books, not to be knowledgeable about it, also take them off the shelves,” and declared: “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decision. So yeah, stopped a bill that I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they teach.”
Noting that McAuliffe had claimed that criticism he received for this had stemmed from his words being taken out of context, Todd followed up: “Governor, what about that makes you feel as if you were taken out of context? Do you feel as if anything you said there should reassure parents that they have some say in their kid’s schooling?”
To that, McAuliffe dug the hole he was already in even deeper: “Listen, that was about a bill I vetoed which people were very happy that I vetoed the bill, that literally parents could take books out of the curriculum. I love Billy and Jack McAuliffe, my parents, but they should not have been picking my math or science book. We have experts who actually do that. He is closing his campaign on banning books. It’s created controversy all over the book. He wants to ban Toni Morrison’s book, Beloved. He’s going after someone who won a Nobel Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom. He wants her books banned. In all the hundreds of books, you could look at, why the one black female author? Why did you do it? He’s ending the campaign on a racist dog whistle.”
McAuliffe, resorting to a tried-and-true Leftist strategy, was trying to make the issue all about racism while ignoring the genuine, and quite serious, issues that were actually involved. A volume of gay pornography, Gender Queer, which is a graphic novel in both senses of the word “graphic,” has been available in Virginia school libraries.
There is more. Read the rest here.
spiro says
This is what. Chi Joe
Brought. To the US
spiro says
Wrong post.
You know where it belongs
spiro says
That’s the problem
Your so called experts
Kepha says
Speaking as a teacher who both has had run-ins with unhappy parents and feels sympathy for those protesting parents, here’s what the “experts” have given us:
–Martin Luther teaching that everyone has a direct link to God (actually, he taught of Christ’s mediation through the word and sacraments).
–Usman Dan Fodio fought against “European rulers” (he actually fought against Hausa rulers and died seven decades before the Scramble for Africa).
–Inconsistent use of Chinese romanization systems.
–Islam as “tolerant” (tell that to the Armenians, Assyrians, Anatolian Greeks, present-day Middle Eastern Christians).
–China became “independent” in 1949.
–Anglicanism as a “middle way” between the Reformation and Rome (sorry, that’s a 19th century Tractarian conceit. Cranmer, Ridley, and those folks were all very much on the Protestant side).
–“Iron Triangles” (alliances between regulated interests, Congressional groups, and regulatory agencies) as ways to “get things done” rather than a way of bilking the public.
–Calvin taught that the rich are the elect (sorry, can’t find that in his writings or the Reformed Confessions to save my soul).
|–No mention of how evolutionary theory is a major underpinning of 20th century totalitarianism.
–Nothing on the African role in capturing and selling slaves.
–Islamic Cordoba as the preserver of the Classical heritage rather than the East Roman Empire.
–No mention of laws of Dhimmitude in discussing Islamic institutions.
–Identifying Champa (Ciampa) on the Toscanelli map as a “province of China”.
The experts pull their pants on one leg at a time, too; and my guess is that a lot of these “experts” are other primary and secondary teachers rather than the pros.
Todd McDermott says
The good news is McCullife will likely lose the election.
The bad news is he will likely win the vote count.
Keith O says
Schools haven’t been education centres in a long time.
They are indoctrination and mind control centres.
The modern school is less about educating children in math, science and the language of the nation and more about twisting vulnerable minds to become willing slaves to the left.
As far as I am concerned, this is child abuse.
Infidel says
In my mail, I got a vote appeal from Paul Siker, the (D) candidate for the House of Delegates. Amazingly, he bellyaches about January 6th, which is nowhere near his district. In the meantime, in Ashburn (not sure whether it’s within his coverage area), there have been 2 school rapes and he has nothing to say about it
I already voted for his opponent last week, so let’s see tomorrow how it turns out
tgusa says
Property taxes fund schools. Even if property owners don’t have any kids in the schools they have every right to know what their tax dollars are paying for in those schools. Democrats have experts, experts that couldn’t run a help yourself for free lemonade stand. Meanwhile, have you noticed the shelves getting bare in the supermarkets and stores? Everything democrats touch turns to ****.
tgusa says
McAuliffe: “Virginia Has Too Many White Teachers”
When I was younger the democrats didn’t want black people around, Now it has become we don’t want white people around. Their party hasn’t changed their targets have changed. The white trash democrats always parade minorities in front of them for cover. The despicable white democrats use minorities as human shields.
gravenimage says
McAuliffe: Parents Shouldn’t Pick Textbooks, ‘We Have Experts Who Actually Do That’
…………………….
The appalling McAuliffe has also said that too many teachers are white. He doesn’t care whether kids are getting a good education or not, just that students have teachers that ‘look like them’…
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
To your point, United Airlines is committed to “diversity” in its pilot ranks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/04/13/united-airline-diversity-pilots-fox/
Would anybody here feel secure, knowing that the pilots in the cockpit were chosen in order to fulfill a set racial “equity” outcome?
Or would you want the very best pilots – regardless of race?
Especially if those pilots were forced to land on the Hudson River like US Airways Flight 1549?