Youngkin Continues To Push Parental Rights As Left-Wing Attacks Mount | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Ryan Saavedra.

    Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has continued to push forward with his pro-parental rights agenda as he campaigns for state lawmakers ahead of this November's elections in the state.

    Youngkin's administration recently slammed the Fairfax County Public Schools' decision to defy the state's guidelines against radical gender theory.

    "The law requires the Virginia Department of Education to provide model policies and requires school boards to adopt policies consistent with those provided by the Department," his administration said in a statement. "The Fairfax County Public Schools policies diverge from VDOE model policy guidance and perpetuate a false notion that FCPS knows what's better for a child than a child's parent. The Fairfax County school board is expected to follow the law."

    Youngkin also took a shot at teachers unions during a recent event in Georgia, saying that the organizations are literally designed to be "a political organization" that his administration has to "battle every day."

    Youngkin also said during a separate recent interview that the government's policies about parents should be common sense, "parents are in charge of their children's lives."

    "The kids don't belong to the state. They belong to the parents and to families," he said. "And they have the ultimate say in decisions that that child is going to make with a parent, not with a bureaucrat. And finally, at the end of the day, these are the exact same school systems that fought us on allowing parents to decide whether children wear a mask or whether sexually explicit materials could be removed from the curriculum, or that schools were going to stay shut for a long period of time, unnecessarily long, which resulted in massive learning loss."

    Youngkin's continued push to advance parental rights comes as Democrats have attacked him over the issue, including Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA).

    "You think about the DeSantis model. Governor Youngkin has often talked about Governor DeSantis of Florida as kind of a role model for him as governor," Kaine said. "Look you see efforts underway in Virginia in some local school jurisdictions to ban books, pull books out of school libraries, to pull books out of the public library system."

    The Daily Wire has previously reported how schools in Loudoun County, Virginia, removed a book titled "Gender Queer: A Memoir" from library shelves due to its highly graphic nature.


    Youngkin has also faced attacks from local media over the matter, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, whose editorial board argued that it was "just difficult, if not impossible" to see how "removing sexually explicit books and focusing on who gets to use what bathrooms are going to help any student or school improve academically."

    The editorial board mocked those who don't want their children to be taught about "gender-switching athletes stealing lacrosse scholarships from pigtailed, cisgender girls," and downplayed the national security threats posed by Chinese-controlled TikTok.

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It has been far too many years since the Woke theology interlaced its canons within the fabric of the Indoctrination Realm, so it is nigh time to ask: Does this Representative Republic continue, as a functioning society of a self-governed people, by contending with the unusual, self absorbed dictates of the Woke, and their vast array of Victimhood scenarios?

  Yes, the Religion of Woke must continue; there are so many groups of underprivileged, underserved, a direct result of unrelenting Inequity; they deserve everything.

  No; the Woke fools must be toppled from their self-anointed pedestal; a functioning society of a good Constitutional people cannot withstand this level of "existential" favoritism as it exists now.

  I just observe; with this thoughtful observation: What will happen "when the Vikings are breeching our walls;" how do the Woke react?

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