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What are the objectives of parents?

Since Glenn Youngkin's victory in the Virginia governor's race, which was viewed as the suburbs' retaliation, parents' worries have taken center stage. Journalists and politicians alike are suddenly concerned about school issues.

Parents have been labeled "racist" by many on the left in the months since the election, but in a state where President Joe Biden won by more than ten points, either the racists went for Biden last time or the claims are absolutely ridiculous.

So, what are the real objectives of parents?

First and foremost, school boards must offer them a truce. While the media has focused on enraged parents at board meetings, there is a lot of proof that the school boards "started it," in the words of the children they're all supposed to safeguard.

Last week, the Scottsdale Unified School Neighborhood's Governing Board president inadvertently released a dossier he'd compiled on parents in his district. It contained photographs of the parents and their children, as well as Social Security numbers, divorce judgments, mortgages, and other personal information.

In March, "anti-racist parents of Loudoun County," a private Facebook group based in Virginia, posted the personal information of parents who oppose Critical Race Theory. Is it any surprise that parents are enraged?

Of course, we now know that the National School Board Association collaborated with the White House and the Attorney General's Office on a hysterical letter that compared parents to domestic terrorists. This prompted the Attorney General to issue a memorandum promising to utilize the FBI to track down disobedient parents.

The first step for schools is to realize that the students are not their property. That isn't even debatable. Parents must be in charge in the end, and school boards should represent parents' desires.

What happens, though, when a school board and parents can't agree on key issues like whether or not school should be open at all?

This occurred during the course of the pandemic's months. Parents were excluded from discussions about what was best for their children. While the pandemic forced schools to close, it was teachers unions who kept them closed.

In areas like California, private schools stayed open, allowing Gov. Gavin Newsom's children to attend school while public schools were closed. This is clearly and disgustingly unjust.

Parents, like a wealthy politician, deserved the option of sending their children to an open school. The next thing that has to change is our funding model: public funds should be used to cover pupils regardless of where they want to attend school, not to schools where children are compelled to attend. Parents have a right to choose how their children are educated.

Parents could make that decision based on the curriculum available, if that is a priority for them. Many of the tense school-board battles could be avoided if parents had more options and could opt their children out of curricula they disliked.

Many parents are aware of, and dislike, the teaching of critical racial theory and the encouragement of gender-questioning. When administrators pretend differently, they know they're being gaslighted. Their children were at home throughout the outbreak and witnessed it firsthand via Zoom.

The truth is that wokeness, rather than old-fashioned reading, writing, and arithmetic, has the potential to dismantle institutions. Even if they aren't rich, parents should be able to get their children out of such toxic surroundings before the damage is done.

During the pandemic, parents had to put up with a lot. They were essentially urged to run their own schools at home, to forego their own employment — and then they were ordered to butt out when they had finally concentrated all of their attention on their children's education. That must change: they deserve to be heard, and they deserve the opportunity to do what is best for their children. They've deserved it for a long time.

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