{"id":1589194,"date":"2022-08-04T14:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589194"},"modified":"2022-08-04T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T18:05:39","slug":"deja-vu-another-democrat-thinks-parents-shouldnt-have-a-say-in-their-childrens-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deja-vu-another-democrat-thinks-parents-shouldnt-have-a-say-in-their-childrens-education\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu: Another Democrat Thinks Parents Shouldn\u2019t Have a Say in Their Children\u2019s Education"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fdeja-vu-another-democrat-thinks-parents-shouldnt-have-a-say-in-their-childrens-education%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=1589194&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--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke, who has taken thousands from teachers&#8217; unions, says parents shouldn&#8217;t question teachers<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tFailed Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke \/ edited from Getty Images  \t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/robert-schmad\/\" title=\"Posts by Robert Schmad\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Robert Schmad<\/a> \u2022 August 4, 2022 2:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O&#8217;Rourke <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1554960448616800256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0this week that &#8220;we don&#8217;t need to tell&#8221; teachers &#8220;what version of history&#8221; they are &#8220;allowed to teach,&#8221; a statement similar to a remark that in part cost Democrat Terry McAuliffe the governorship of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke, who is best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/beto-born-to-fail\/\">losing<\/a> a Senate campaign and a presidential primary, went on to dismiss parental concerns about critical race theory, which he said he had &#8220;never heard of before last year.&#8221; Instead of asking questions, he said, Texans need to treat a teacher with &#8220;the respect that she has earned, that she is owed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Rourke has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/07\/19\/abbott-beto-fundraising-governor-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received<\/a> hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from teachers&#8217; unions.<\/p>\n<p>McAuliffe, who lost the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election to Republican Glenn Youngkin, made a similar <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/terry-mcauliffe-on-defense-after-saying-parents-shouldnt-tell-schools-what-to-teach\/\">statement<\/a> that likely cost him votes. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,&#8221; McAuliffe said during a televised debate. At least one poll found before the election that parents of school-aged children opposed McAuliffe by nearly 20 points, <em>The Hill<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/578885-education-blunder-igniting-suburban-parents-driving-mcauliffe-panic-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Rourke has flip-flopped on critical race theory, which teaches that the United States is systemically racist, several times during his gubernatorial bid. He <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/beto-o-rourke-seeks-campaign-redemption-in-texas-after-2-straight-losses-150146940.html?guccounter=1&#038;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ3JlZ2FiYm90dC5jb20v&#038;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANsoG84ypdCjg8QB_ujzQncH-CnhNz79jFsaAmWygVqVzy_grfpLFXJWy_o6J2EvR28aouBaMTP5E6qbn-N9-N4M72RtsbQRopC_cujmxpXuVBM4x0NyJD-603b_Y6SYQ7prxxxJsOiSBuC3HkgmVmDZ-jDLbXmWO4yUOKdnUf0Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposed<\/a> a Republican bill to ban the theory from classrooms, saying in February that students should learn that &#8220;so much of the wealth and opportunity in this state was actually created by people who had no choice in the deal whatsoever.&#8221; He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/watch-beto-orourke-reverses-stance-on-critical-race-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> just one month later, however, that he does not think critical race theory &#8220;should be taught in our schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Education has become a hot-button issue in the Texas gubernatorial race. Republican incumbent Greg Abbott and O&#8217;Rourke have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/08\/03\/beto-orourke-greg-abbott-school-vouchers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clashed<\/a> extensively over school choice, with O&#8217;Rourke saying the idea of letting parents decide what schools their children should attend is &#8220;radical.&#8221; A <a href=\"https:\/\/texaspolitics.utexas.edu\/set\/redirect-state-tax-revenue-help-parents-pay-private-school-costs-april-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plurality<\/a> of Texans, including an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/TPPF_TX_Statewide_Hispanics_Survey_MQ2_Release_220317.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overwhelming majority<\/a> of Hispanic Texans,\u00a0support Abbott&#8217;s school voucher program, polls have found.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke, who has taken thousands from teachers&#8217; unions, says parents shouldn&#8217;t question teachers  Failed Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and Texas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"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-1589194","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\/1589194","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\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589194\/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=1589194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}