His dismissal of any parental role in education did more than trigger a reaction against McAuliffe. It put on the national agenda an issue that will be engaged and battled long after this Virginia governor’s race is over.Former President
Barack Obama was not amused at Virginia’s response to McAuliffe’s rejection of any parental role in education. “We do not have time to be squandering on these fake, trumped-up culture wars, “stated Obama during a campaign stop for McAuliffe.But to the voters of Virginia, who have been moving
to Youngkin since McAuliffe made his now-famous remark, these are genuine concerns. For what their kids are taught and not taught in the general public schools to which parents consign them from age 5 to age 18 are matters of grave issue for those parents. For it will affect the sort of grownups and people their kids will end up being. “Offer me a kid until he is 7 and I will reveal you the guy”is a saying attributed to
the Jesuits ‘creator St. Ignatius of Loyola. These schools are helping shape what kids concern think about the ethical, social and historic concerns tearing our nation apart. These schools are assisting form the males and women these kids will end up being. Think about. Under the landmark Supreme Court rulings in Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges, abortion and same-sex marital relationship have been made constitutional rights. Yet both decisions contradict scriptural realities, Catholic teaching and natural law. While both decisions are today the law of the land, have moms and dads no right to object if public-school instructors instruct their trainees that these choices were right, ethical
and just? Do students and parents have no right to dissent, both inside and outside the classroom? According to the New York Times'”1619 Project,”American history began when the first servants shown up in Virginia, not when the colonies declared independence in 1776 or when the Constitution was
ratified. Do moms and dads have no right to object if the tenets of critical race theory– that America is shot through with”systemic bigotry, “that whites are privileged from birth and blacks oppressed– are taught as reality about the
country to which they have given their commitment and love? For generations, statues to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson based on Monolith Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. Now that the statues are taken apart, both are reviled as “traitors.” Yet, till he was 40 years of age, George Washington was
a loyal British subject. But when Virginia rose against the British Crown, Washington joined the rebellion. Robert E. Lee was also a loyal U.S. soldier and hero of the Mexican War, until his home state Virginia seceded. Both males were slave-owners. The excellent difference: Washington was victorious at Yorktown, and Lee surrendered at Appomattox. President Dwight Eisenhower concerned Lee, whose portrait he hung in the Oval Workplace, as amongst the greatest of all Americans. Whose view of Lee should be
taught? Eisenhower’s or Harvard’s? The question raised by McAuliffe is: Who decides? Who, in the education of America’s kids,
chooses what is traditionally, ethically and socially true? And who is allowed to participate in those choices? The nation is today divided over whether America is a good and a
fantastic nation, or whether it has been irredeemably stained by its sins against the native peoples and slavery. As the Dutch historian Pieter Geyl said,” History is indeed an argument without end.”Again, the concern: Who chooses which version is taught in the public schools that are spent for with the tax dollars of the moms and dads who send their kids there? Middle America’s view of the nation is more than a little remote from the Ivy League’s, and somewhat closer to Merle Haggard’s.”
When you’re running down my nation, you’re walking on the battling side of me.” Whatever occurs Tuesday,” the McAuliffe concern”will be on the table in
the elections of 2022. theamericanconservative.com