{"id":373212,"date":"2021-11-27T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T12:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/public-school-proponents-forget-parents-control-kids-education\/"},"modified":"2021-11-27T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T12:42:17","slug":"public-school-proponents-forget-parents-control-kids-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/public-school-proponents-forget-parents-control-kids-education\/","title":{"rendered":"#Public school proponents forget parents control kids\u2019 education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Public school proponents forget parents control kids\u2019 education<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A growing number of parents are pushing back on public school teachings they consider harmful to their children. They\u2019ve raised a collective voice against divisive <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\">app<\/a>roaches like Critical Race Theory, radical gender policies, and the injection of woke ideology into almost every school subject. And they\u2019re making a difference. <\/p>\n<p>After winning Virginia\u2019s gubernatorial race earlier this month largely on an education platform, Glenn Youngkin assured Virginian parents he\u2019s in their corner: \u201cWe\u2019re going to restore excellence in our schools\u2026We\u2019re going to embrace our parents, not ignore them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But many public education proponents aren\u2019t so welcoming toward parents. Youngkin\u2019s opponent, Terry McAuliffe, ran on the premise that parents shouldn\u2019t be telling schools what to teach. Former president Barack Obama echoed his sentiments, referring to parental concerns as \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1452022922290290695\">phony, trumped-up culture wars<\/a>.\u201d A <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\">recent opinion piece<\/a> in The Washington Post by education professor Jack Schneider calls parents\u2019 efforts \u201cconspiratorial fantasies,\u201d comments that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten\/status\/1452766787343355911\">earned kudos on Twitter<\/a> from Randi Weingarten, head of one of the nation\u2019s largest teacher\u2019s unions. Another education professor, Christina Wyman, put it even more bluntly in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/schools-face-parents-who-want-ban-critical-race-theory-don-ncna1284185?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">an NBC News opinion piece<\/a>: \u201cParents, community members, and politicians who aren\u2019t qualified to teach should keep their noses out of school curricula.\u201d And in a calculated attempt to scare parents and silence their dissent, liberal advocacy group National School Boards Association asked President Biden to intervene, calling angry parents a \u201cform of domestic terrorism.\u201d Less than a week later, Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Merrick Garland issued a memo activating the FBI to probe local \u201cthreats of violence\u201d to school boards.<\/p>\n<p>Those looking to quell the pesky parental rebellion in America\u2019s public schools need to face up to this simple, incontrovertible fact: parents are the primary educators of their children. From before they\u2019re even born, parents teach their children by their words and deeds. As kids grow, parents often choose to partner with other parents, community leaders and teachers to amplify their children\u2019s learning. But ultimate responsibility for the quality of a child\u2019s education \u2014\u00a0physical, mental and spiritual \u2014\u00a0lies solely with parents.<\/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\/11\/weingarten-garland-obama.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Teachers' union head Randi Weingarten, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and former President Barack Obama have dismissed American parents\u2019 concerns over education.\" class=\"wp-image-20259339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/weingarten-garland-obama.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/weingarten-garland-obama.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/weingarten-garland-obama.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Teachers\u2019 union head Randi Weingarten, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and former President Barack Obama have dismissed American parents\u2019 concerns over education.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stefan Jeremiah for NY Post; Getty Images (2)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Up until the early 1800s, many parents embraced the spiritual duty set out in the book of<br \/>Proverbs to \u201ctrain up a child in the way he should go,\u201d with church-established schoolhouses striving to support them. But with increased immigration and urban development came the call to offer free government-subsidized schooling for all. What began as a lofty endeavor complete with non-denominational moral instruction has, in the modern era, descended into an environment openly hostile to the Judeo-Christian ideas that fueled Western civilization and our unique American experiment. As sociologist Susan Rose put it, the public school became \u201cthe substitute for the American national church.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As publicly funded \u201cexperts\u201d took over the role of educating American children, the role of parents was largely marginalized. Today, we\u2019re reaping the consequences of that shift in responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, more parents are choosing to take on the role of primary educator to their kids. By the start of the 2020-21 school year, the number of school-age children getting taught at home in the US more than doubled from the year before to 11.1 percent, and a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0258723\">new study suggests<\/a> homeschooled kids are healthier, happier and more likely to attend religious services than many public-school graduates.<\/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\/11\/new-mexico-public-education-department-office.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Parents in New Mexico (above) show their discontent for public education policies, a movement that has grown nationwide. \" class=\"wp-image-20259408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/new-mexico-public-education-department-office.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/new-mexico-public-education-department-office.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/new-mexico-public-education-department-office.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Parents in New Mexico (above) show their discontent for public education policies, a movement that has grown nationwide. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Cedar Attanasio<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What really qualifies one to teach? While learning the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>\u201d of teaching can be useful, especially for classroom instruction of multiple students, it\u2019s the basics that clinch it: a willingness to invest your time, the wisdom to address the physical and spiritual as well as mental needs of the student, and the restraint to teach <em>how<\/em> to think rather than <em>what<\/em> to think. <\/p>\n<p>Teaching kids how to think requires a partnership between parents and the educational community. Without parents producing the children that populate public schools, there would be no public schools and no school boards to govern them. Public schools would do well to remember that fact, and start showing parents the respect they deserve.<\/p>\n<p><em>Andrew McDiarmid is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. 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