{"id":359602,"date":"2021-10-29T05:26:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/teachers-democrats-fight-against-parental-rights\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T05:26:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:26:58","slug":"teachers-democrats-fight-against-parental-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/teachers-democrats-fight-against-parental-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"#Teachers, Democrats fight against parental rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Teachers, Democrats fight against parental rights<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>If you assumed that teachers unions, Democratic officials and education technocrats began the new school year humbled by the parental backlash against their harmful pandemic-era tactics (closing schools and embracing ideologically motivated efforts to rewrite school curricula among them), you would be mistaken.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten\/status\/1452766787343355911\">Randi Weingarten, the head of one of the nation\u2019s largest teachers unions, tweeted<\/a>, \u201cGreat piece on parents\u2019 rights and #publicschools.\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/parents-rights-protests-kids\/2021\/10\/21\/5cf4920a-31d4-11ec-9241-aad8e48f01ff_story.html\">The piece, which ran in The Washington Post<\/a>, argued against the idea that parents have rights, as its headline made clear: \u201cParents claim they have the right to shape their kids\u2019 school curriculum. They don\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Weingarten and her union members (who are among the Democratic Party\u2019s top donors and have repeatedly succeeded in getting the Biden administration to kowtow to their unscientific demands for draconian public-health guidelines in schools), are now embracing the claim that parents should have no rights when it comes to what their children are taught in taxpayer-funded schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The op-ed, written by Jack Schneider, an education professor, and Jennifer Berkshire, a writer, is a wildly disingenuous effort to portray parents\u2019 legitimate concerns as extremist. It is a perfect distillation of the current misguided reasoning on the left regarding education.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Randi-Weingarten-tweet.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Randi Weingarten is the president of the American Federation of Teachers and a member of the AFL\u2013CIO.\" class=\"wp-image-19960694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Randi-Weingarten-tweet.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Randi-Weingarten-tweet.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Randi-Weingarten-tweet.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Randi Weingarten is the president of the American Federation of Teachers and a member of the AFL\u2013CIO.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">John Minchillo\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It begins by casting parents worried about their children\u2019s educational experience as being in a \u201cfrenzy.\u201d It claims that it is the parents who are radical in their demands for more information about what\u2019s being taught, rather than the schools that refuse to respond to them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s actually radical here is the assertion of parental powers that have never previously existed,\u201d they write. \u201cThis is not to say that parents should have no influence over how their children are taught. But common law and case law in the United States have long supported the idea that education should prepare young people to think for themselves, even if that runs counter to the wishes of parents.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the law is not at all as clear-cut as they suggest. In Virginia, for example, where a toss-up gubernatorial election has focused a great deal on educational issues, the law states the opposite. Virginia Code \u00a7\u20091-240.1 (titled \u201cRights of parents\u201d) reads, \u201cA parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education and care of the parent\u2019s child.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The authors\u2019 most egregious claim, however, is that the \u201csudden push for parental rights, then, isn\u2019t a response to substantive changes in education or the law. It\u2019s a political tactic.\u201d They liken today\u2019s parents to Richard Hofstadter\u2019s de<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion of conservatives and their \u201cparanoid style,\u201d with their \u201cheated exaggeration, suspiciousness and conspiratorial fantasy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/va-parents-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Republican nominee for governor Glenn Youngkin holds an early vote rally in Roanoke County at the Brambleton Center on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19960709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/va-parents-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/va-parents-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/va-parents-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Republican nominee for governor Glenn Youngkin holds an early vote rally in Roanoke County at the Brambleton Center on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Heather Rousseau\/The Roanoke Times via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a lie. Parents were not \u201csuddenly\u201d politically galvanized. Their attention to these issues has been growing for some time and accelerated in the past year because of two developments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First, a pandemic that revealed just how much unaccountable power that teachers unions, Democratic school boards and blue-state politicians felt entitled to exercise over decisions about safety and schools. Second, a push in recent years to introduce Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives (often inspired by critical race theory) to ever-younger schoolchildren, even though such initiatives are seen by many as divisive and much of the material used to teach it is historically inaccurate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t paranoia. It is the parents of mixed-race students, like this one in Nevada, who are wondering why the schools their sons and daughters attend are making them choose whose \u201cside\u201d they are on: white (oppressors) or black (victims), and who end up filing lawsuits to get answers from school officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s parents in Loudoun County, Va., who are angry that their school board lied to the public about the fact that a girl had been raped by a trans student at a public middle school. The school district then transferred the assaulter to another school, where the trans student sexually assaulted another girl. And yet the school board had the father of the victim arrested for demanding answers about the assault during a public meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also the response parents receive when they do ask for more information about what is being taught in schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Rhode Island this summer, the National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the country, filed a lawsuit against Nicole Solas, a parent who was trying to find out more information about what her daughter was being taught in elementary school after the principal told her the school used \u201cgender-neutral terms\u201d rather than \u201cboy\u201d and \u201cgirl\u201d to describe students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>When the principal of the school refused to provide her with information about the curriculum, Solas was forced to file Freedom of Information Act requests to try to learn what her own daughter was being taught every day in a school funded by her tax dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teachers union responded by suing her, asking a judge to block the release of public records, citing \u201cteachers\u2019 individual privacy rights.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those on the left who are doubling down on this strategy are harboring a deep misunderstanding about what is going on regarding parents\u2019 perspectives about their involvement in public schooling: the difference between rights and responsibilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/shock-poll-youngkin-leading-602-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe recently said parents should not tell teachers what to teach in schools.\" class=\"wp-image-19960792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/shock-poll-youngkin-leading-602-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/shock-poll-youngkin-leading-602-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/shock-poll-youngkin-leading-602-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe recently said parents should not tell teachers what to teach in schools.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Parents don\u2019t view being able to weigh in on curriculum \u00adchoices as a right; they understand it as a responsibility, one of many they take seriously because they care that their children receive a decent education. This is why they have been flooding school-board meetings to protest what they view as harmful decisions by boards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, teachers unions and Democrats, blinded by their deep faith in statism, speak of the \u201crights\u201d they claim parents are unfairly asserting as though they conflict with their own rights to do as they please as technocratic \u201cexperts.\u201d They treat parents as nuisances, or, in the case of the National School Boards Association, as potential domestic terrorists. Indeed, the Biden administration recently rewarded the person behind the NSBA effort to label parents terrorists with a plum federal job.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/blackburn-presses-biden-on-school-board-association-interactions\/\">As the Free Beacon reported<\/a>, Biden\u2019s education secretary, Miguel Cardona, just appointed NSBA President Viola Garcia, who was the driving force behind the letter urging Biden to use the power of the Justice Department to monitor parents at school-board meetings, to head the National Assessment Governing Board, \u201cwhich develops the tests used to track student achievement across the country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Miguel-Cardona.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden speaks as he visits an event hosted by first lady Jill Biden to honor the 2021 State and National Teachers of the Year, on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, in Washington. Listening is Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.\" class=\"wp-image-19960767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Miguel-Cardona.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Miguel-Cardona.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Miguel-Cardona.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden speaks as he visits an event hosted by first lady Jill Biden to honor the 2021 State and National Teachers of the Year and is joined by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Evan Vucci\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rather than engage parents\u2019 concerns, teachers unions and Democrats like Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe would have parents simply follow orders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,\u201d McAuliffe said at a recent debate. The casual contempt he is signaling here is having political consequences: In an Oct. 25 Cygnal poll of support for Republicans vs. Democrats in Virginia, K-12 parents chose Republicans by a margin of 17 percentage points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the outcome of the governor\u2019s race in Virginia, parents should continue to make their voices heard, because in doing so they are reminding public officials and public employees of a fact that far too many of them seem to have forgotten: They answer to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted with permission from Commentary magazine.\u00a0<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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