{"id":928639,"date":"2021-10-27T13:44:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T17:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=928639"},"modified":"2021-10-27T13:44:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T17:44:38","slug":"teachers-union-leader-praises-op-ed-that-falsely-claimed-parents-have-no-right-to-shape-their-kids-school-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-union-leader-praises-op-ed-that-falsely-claimed-parents-have-no-right-to-shape-their-kids-school-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Union Leader Praises Op-Ed That Falsely Claimed Parents Have No Right To \u2018Shape Their Kids\u2019 School Curriculum\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Fteachers-union-leader-praises-op-ed-that-falsely-claimed-parents-have-no-right-to-shape-their-kids-school-curriculum%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=928639&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>Randi Weingarten, president of prominent teachers\u2019 union American Federation of Teachers (AFT), tweeted on Monday her support for a controversial op-ed that falsely claimed parents don\u2019t have the right to \u201cshape their kids\u2019 curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat piece on parents\u2019 rights and #publicschools,\u201d Weingarten tweeted, including a link to a Washington Post op-ed titled, \u201cParents claim they have the right to shape their kids\u2019 school curriculum. They don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The authors of the op-ed \u2013 Professor Jack Schneider and journalist Jennifer Berkshire \u2013 insisted that parents have some say in their children\u2019s education, but claimed the current focus on parental rights was \u201ca political tactic.\u201d They also claimed the current movement by parents to get more involved in what is being taught to their children stems from \u201cWhite racial grievance,\u201d ignoring the numerous minority parents who has also opposed the way schools are currently teaching about privilege and race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnowing that every vote matters, the GOP has increasingly relied on a strategy of voter suppression. Simultaneously, Republicans have worked to ensure that their base turns out in force by stoking White racial grievance. The recent firestorm over critical race theory is a perfect case in point. Never mind that this concept from legal scholarship isn\u2019t actually taught in K-12 schools or that it isn\u2019t what most protesters believe it to be. Republicans gain an electoral advantage by convincing their base that White children are being taught to hate themselves, their families and their country,\u201d the authors wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The authors also insisted that allowing parents a say in their children\u2019s\u2019 educations would keep those kids from being able to think independently and be exposed to alternate ideas.<\/p>\n<p>As noted on Twitter when the op-ed was posted, parents <em>do<\/em> have the right to \u201cshape their kids\u2019 school curriculum.\u201d In Virginia, where multiple school districts have gained national attention for parents\u2019 attempts to fight back against mask mandates and Critical Race Theory, state law gives parents the \u201cfundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent\u2019s child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Corey DeAngelis, research director at the American Federation for Children, also mentioned <em>Pierce v. Society of Sisters<\/em>, a 1925 ruling that found:<\/p>\n<p><em>The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Weingarten has come under fire before, after it was revealed she had a major impact over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randi Weingarten, president of prominent teachers\u2019 union American Federation of Teachers (AFT), tweeted on Monday her support for a controversial op-ed that falsely claimed parents don\u2019t have the right to \u201cshape their kids\u2019 curriculum.\u201d\u201cGreat piece on parents\u2019 rights and #publicschools,\u201d Weingarten tweeted, including a link to a Washington Post op-ed titled, \u201cParents claim they have the right to shape their kids\u2019 school curriculum. They don\u2019t.\u201dThe authors of the op-ed \u2013 Professor Jack Schneider and journalist Jennifer Berkshire \u2013 insisted that parents have some say in their children\u2019s education, but claimed the current focus on parental rights was \u201ca political tactic.\u201d They also claimed the current movement by parents to get more involved in what is being taught to their children stems from \u201cWhite racial grievance,\u201d ignoring the numerous minority parents who has also opposed the way schools are currently teaching about privilege and race.\u201cKnowing that every vote matters, the GOP has increasingly relied on a strategy of voter suppression. Simultaneously, Republicans have worked to ensure that their base turns out in force by stoking White racial grievance. The recent firestorm over critical race theory is a perfect case in point. Never mind that this concept from legal scholarship isn\u2019t actually taught in K-12 schools or that it isn\u2019t what most protesters believe it to be. Republicans gain an electoral advantage by convincing their base that White children are being taught to hate themselves, their families and their country,\u201d the authors wrote.The authors also insisted that allowing parents a say in their children\u2019s\u2019 educations would keep those kids from being able to think independently and be exposed to alternate ideas.As noted on Twitter when the op-ed was posted, parents do have the right to \u201cshape their kids\u2019 school curriculum.\u201d In Virginia, where multiple school districts have gained national attention for parents\u2019 attempts to fight back against mask mandates and Critical Race Theory, state law gives parents the \u201cfundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent\u2019s child.\u201dCorey DeAngelis, research director at the American Federation for Children, also mentioned Pierce v. Society of Sisters, a 1925 ruling that found:The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.Weingarten has come under fire before, after it was revealed she had a major impact over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) guidelines keeping schools closed. As The Daily Wire reported, the AFT \u201cappears to have lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep schools shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic\u201d and even suggested language for the CDC\u2019s school-reopening guidelines released earlier this year.\u201cThe AFT, of course,\u00a0spent $20 million to elect Democrats\u00a0in the 2020 election cycle, and teachers unions have been instrumental, across the country, in\u00a0delaying in-person learning and a return to classrooms\u00a0following the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d The Daily Wire added.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\u00a0member.<\/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-928639","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\/928639","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=928639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928639\/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=928639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}