{"id":826933,"date":"2021-09-29T08:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T12:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=826933"},"modified":"2021-09-29T08:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T12:14:23","slug":"democrat-terry-mcauliffe-i-dont-think-parents-should-be-telling-schools-what-they-should-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-terry-mcauliffe-i-dont-think-parents-should-be-telling-schools-what-they-should-teach\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Terry McAuliffe: \u2018I Don\u2019t Think Parents Should Be Telling Schools What They Should Teach\u2019"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fdemocrat-terry-mcauliffe-i-dont-think-parents-should-be-telling-schools-what-they-should-teach%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=826933&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/terry-mcauliffe-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"e12o35pe0 css-1jo504w\" readability=\"46.158161541061\">\n<p>Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe said during a debate against Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin that he does not believe that parents should tell schools what they should teach children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen over the course of this last 20 months is our school systems refusing to engage with parents. In fact in Fairfax County this past week, we watched parents so upset because there was such sexually explicit material in the library they had never seen, it was shocking,\u201d Youngkin&nbsp;said. \u201cAnd in fact, you vetoed the bill that would have informed parents that they were there. You believe school systems should tell children what to do. I believe parents should be in charge of their kids\u2019 education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McAuliffe responded to Youngkin\u2019s remarks and to the recent activism by parents in pushing back on far-left woke ideologies in their kid\u2019s schools by saying that he was \u201cnot going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,\u201d McAuliffe said<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.8927203065134\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Glenn Youngkin: &#8220;I believe parents should be in charge of their kids&#8217; education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Terry McAuliffe: &#8220;I don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VAgov?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VAgov<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LqIlRMLKgj\">pic.twitter.com\/LqIlRMLKgj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennYoungkin\/status\/1443021016838647818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Youngkin responded to McAuliffe\u2019s claim that he was \u201cclueless\u201d about the laws in Virginia by posting the following on social media:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2142857142857\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s the bill Terry McAuliffe vetoed that would have ensured Virginia parents were notified when sexually explicit material was assigned to their child in school. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VAgov?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VAgov<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zZ1VAXY80j\">pic.twitter.com\/zZ1VAXY80j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennYoungkin\/status\/1442996435868344320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McAuliffe faced widespread backlash online by numerous politicians, commentators, journalists, and others who were horrified by elitist and autocratic nature of what he said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)<\/strong>: \u201cAlways dangerous when Dems are accidentally honest: McAuliffe thinks he should decide what school kids are taught, and pesky parents should shut up &amp; obey!\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Whitlock<\/strong>, Republican strategist: \u201cYikes. Good reminder that McAuliffe values teachers union money more than parent\u2019s votes. The parent pushback to absurd teachers union behavior in Northern Virginia covers the entire political spectrum.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Hemingway<\/strong>, writer: \u201cOoof. There\u2019s a soundbite you\u2019ll be hearing in a month\u2019s worth of ads.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephen Miller<\/strong>, former Trump official: \u201cMake sure every parent in Virginia hears this before they vote.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Larry O\u2019Connor<\/strong>, radio host: \u201cThis may go down as one of the biggest debate blunders in recent history.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryan T. Anderson<\/strong>, president of EPPC: \u201cParents have the primary responsibility for and authority over the education of their kids. Schools should be accountable to parents. And public schools to citizens. Of course parents\/citizens should be telling schools what they should teach.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blake Hounshell<\/strong>, editor: \u201cI don\u2019t know if this is what McAuliffe meant to say, but plenty of apolitical parents would disagree with this statement.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Meadows<\/strong>, former Trump official: \u201cToday\u2019s Democrat party, summed up in a clip you have to see to believe.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Curtis Houck<\/strong>, editor: \u201cTerry McAuliffe apparently wants graphic sexual material to be read by minors without parental consent!\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tim Murtaugh<\/strong>, former Trump campaign official: \u201cAnyone with school-aged kids should be appalled by this. This follows on school boards treating parents as nuisances. McAuliffe cares more about teachers unions than he does about the parents and kids.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Republican State Leadership Committee<\/strong>: \u201cVirginia House Democrats should immediately denounce Terry Mcauliffe\u2019s reckless position to put teachers\u2019 unions over Virginia families.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charles Hoskinson<\/strong>: \u201cParents: Remember this when you vote. We pay to build the schools We pay the teachers\u2019 salaries. Our children are why they have jobs. Education is the public\u2019s business. Our business. Nobody tells me to butt out of it. Ever.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tim Kennedy<\/strong>, UFC fighter: \u201cAs a father of 4 and a school owner\u2026 this is the most ludicrous sentence ever uttered from an entitled egomaniac politician.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry<\/strong>, fellow at EPPC: \u201cIt\u2019s not a conspiracy theory if they say they\u2019re doing it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew T. Walker<\/strong>, editor: \u201cEducation now exists as a statist operation to enforce ruling class norms over and against the concerns of the unwashed masses. It\u2019s not education; but ideological colonization. This has been the case for a long time, but at least the sentiment was finally voiced out loud\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jess Jensen<\/strong>, YAF: \u201cThis is the Left\u2019s end game, friends. He said the quiet part out loud.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rebecca Kleefisch<\/strong>, political candidate: \u201cThey\u2019re afraid of parents regaining control over their child\u2019s education because when you empower families, you take power away from the special interests in charge of government schools.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chris Krok<\/strong>, radio host: \u201cMcAuliffe: Parents don\u2019t know what\u2019s best for their own kids.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael D. Brown<\/strong>, former U.S. official: \u201cLadies &amp; Gentlemen, I am a Democrat. And I believe that all forms of government know better what\u2019s best for you, not you plebes.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jason B. Whitman<\/strong>, CEO: \u201cParents must rise up and battle these clowns at the local level. There is no other way to stop this utter insanity.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jason Church, U.S. Veteran: \u201cI\u2019ll rephrase this: \u2018Parents, you\u2019re too stupid to tell a local school board (made up of your fellow citizens &amp; parents) what to teach our children. Just leave it up to the bureaucrats &amp; public sector unions.\u2019 Just another example of Democrats thinking they know better than us.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe said during a debate against Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin that he does not believe that parents should tell schools what they should teach children.\u201cWhat &#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-826933","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\/826933","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=826933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826933\/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=826933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}