If Democrats don't start listening to parents, they're in for more electoral pain
chools may be a local issue, but how they are run—especially during the pandemic—can stoke the outrage politics that define many state and national races. Democrats, to their grief, learned as much in November when Republican Glenn Youngkinby harping on the disastrous performance of the state’s schools when COVID-19 hit. And I got a refresher on a snow day.
But we also shared in the miserable experience of how schools have been run in Virginia during COVID-19. One day in early 2020, we got the message that the schools would be closed the next day. And they were. No messages, no instructional materials, nothing other than an email with a list of web resources we could access and schedule on our own .
The confounding illogic of the “shut-down” approach and the deterioration on kids’ learning, drove thousands of independent and evenTo be clear, McAuliffe was speaking about policies that would allow parents to pull books they found objectionable from schools.
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