{"id":1220635,"date":"2022-01-17T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1220635"},"modified":"2022-01-17T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T23:22:14","slug":"michigan-democratic-party-trashes-parental-rights-in-education-then-deletes-post-and-backtracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-democratic-party-trashes-parental-rights-in-education-then-deletes-post-and-backtracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Democratic Party Trashes Parental Rights In Education, Then Deletes Post And Backtracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigan-democratic-party-trashes-parental-rights-in-education-then-deletes-post-and-backtracks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1220635&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Michigan Democratic Party found itself in hot water this Sunday after its Facebook account posted a message bashing parents for wanting to have a say in their kids\u2019 education, even asserting parents should send their kids to private school if they want to have a choice.<\/p>\n<p>That post must have sparked enough backlash to get a rare retraction from the Democrats because, on Monday, the Facebook account in question posted a message stating that parents should play a role in education and that the Party\u2019s first message had been deleted.<\/p>\n<p>As captured by school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis, the Michigan Democratic Party snarkily posted a message saying, \u201cNot sure where this \u2018parents-should-control-what-is-taught-in-schools-because-they-are-our-kids\u2019 is originating, but parents do have the option to send their kids to a hand-selected private school at their own expense if this is what they desire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">how it started how it&#8217;s going <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ckRbnDgUok\">pic.twitter.com\/ckRbnDgUok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeAngelisCorey\/status\/1483143852106170368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, the post lectured parents who deign to assert the right to educate their kids must understand that the \u201cpurpose of a public education in a public school is not to teach only what parents want them to be taught. It is to teach them what society needs them to know. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe client of the public schools is not the parent, but the entire community, the public,\u201d the Facebook post pontificated.<\/p>\n<p>If you thought that message sounded familiar, perhaps it is because it is similar to what failed-Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe said on the 2021 campaign trail. During a debate, McAuliffe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-terry-mcauliffe-i-dont-think-parents-should-be-telling-schools-what-they-should-teach\">blurted<\/a> out \u201cI don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the time he woke up and realized what he had said, it was too late. His Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin, took off in the polls and won the whole shebang. This Saturday, newly-sworn-in Youngkin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/governor-youngkin-signs-11-orders-on-day-one-in-office-includes-crt-ban-investigating-loudoun-county-officials\">signed<\/a> 11 executive orders, several of which dealt precisely with public education and fulfilling campaign promises of respecting parents\u2019 rights and responsibility in providing their child a good education \u2014 even, or especially, parents who send kids to public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it seems, the Democratic Party of Michigan wants to avoid the same collapse in the polls as McAuliffe suffered.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Party\u2019s Facebook account shared a new post, saying, \u201cWe have deleted a post that ignored the important role parents play\u2014and should play\u2014in Michigan public schools. Parents need to have a say in their children\u2019s education, end of story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe post does not reflect the views of Michigan and should not be misinterpreted as a statement of support from our elected officials or candidates,\u201d the post added.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, nobody really bought that explanation. It is far more likely the party realized they had been too honest and transparent about their intentions for children and parental rights. It isn\u2019t a great tactic to tell working-class parents to take a hike to the private school while trying to court their votes.<\/p>\n<p>It also doesn\u2019t help that from coast to coast, progressives have seemingly been diminishing the role of parents in many aspects of society. As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/california-politico-writes-that-equity-demands-parents-must-give-up-their-children\">covered<\/a> last week, one California Lefty wrote a serious column arguing that in the name of equity, we should do away with the concept of \u201cparenthood\u201d altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The Left\u2019s desire to control kids for their nefarious political agenda is nothing new. Communist Vladimir Lenin understood the importance of indoctrinating the next generation when he said, \u201cGive me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He, too, thought it the state\u2019s job to teach children what \u201csociety needs them to know.\u201d Perhaps he is where the Democratic Party of Michigan learned their thoughts on public education from.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan Democratic Party found itself in hot water this Sunday after its Facebook account posted a message bashing parents for wanting to have a say in their kids\u2019 education, even asserting parents should send their kids to private school if they want to have a choice. That post must have sparked enough backlash to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}