It's Time for Parents to Lead on Education Because They 'Know Their Children Best'
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🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to children’s education, parents know best, Laura Zorc says.
As the mother of four kids herself, Zorc has been fighting for education reform since 2013, when her home state of Florida began adopting Common Core education goals. She successfully rallied a group of parents to stand against the federally funded learning standards. Now, she is training parents across the nation to be advocates for their own children in the classroom.
“Just because we send our kids to these government public schools, that does not mean the moment they walk through those front doors that we hand over our rights as parents,” Zorc says.
Zorc is the founder of Building Education for Students Together (BEST), an organization that equips parents to run for school board and stand against the far-left policies infiltrating classrooms across America.
She joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the importance of parental involvement in the field of education and how parents can begin utilizing the resources offer by BEST, a project of FreedomWorks.
We also cover these stories:
- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announces he plans on forcing a vote to change rules regarding the filibuster.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, calls on the Biden administration to distribute monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of COVID-19.
- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announces he will no longer be posting videos to YouTube, accusing the platform of repeatedly censoring his content.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, January 4th. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Doug Blair. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Virginia Allen. |
| 0:12.0 | Education will be one of the most important issues of 2022. |
| 0:17.0 | There is nothing more important than protecting our kids and teaching them how to think, |
| 0:23.0 | not what to think in the classroom. |
| 0:25.0 | Laura Zork is the founder of the organization Building Education for Students Together, |
| 0:30.0 | also known as Best. |
| 0:32.0 | Laura joins me on the show today to discuss how her education group is training parents |
| 0:38.0 | to get involved in their local school district and the ambassadors of positive change in the classroom. |
| 0:44.0 | But before we get to Virginia's conversation with Laura Zork, let's hit our top news stories of the day. |
| 0:51.0 | In a dear colleague letter released on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced |
| 0:56.0 | he planned on forcing a vote to change rules regarding the filibuster by January 17th |
| 1:01.0 | if Senate Republicans block a voting rights bill. |
| 1:04.0 | The filibuster means that legislation requires at least 60 votes to pass through the Senate, |
| 1:09.0 | which means Democrats can't pass bills without GOP support. |
| 1:13.0 | In the letter Schumer wrote, |
| 1:15.0 | we must adapt the Senate must evolve, like it has many times before. |
| 1:20.0 | He continued, as former Senator Robert Bird famously said, |
| 1:24.0 | Senate rules must be changed to reflect changed circumstances. |
| 1:28.0 | Put more plainly by Senator Bird, Congress is not obliged to be bound by the dead hand of the past. |
| 1:34.0 | The announcement comes as Senate Democrats attempt to link the first anniversary of the January 6th attack on the Capitol |
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