Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the weekly report. Parents should control

education. During last week's Virginia Gumentatorial debate, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe

promised that as governor he would prevent parents from removing sexually explicit books

from school libraries because he doesn't think parents should be telling schools what

they should teach. McAuliffe's disdain for parents who think they should have some

say in their children's education is shared by most progressives as well as some who

call themselves conservatives. They think parents should obediently pay their taxes to

fund the government schools and never question any aspect of the government school program.

School officials refusal to obey the wishes of parents extend to the anti-science mask

mandates. Mask mandates are not only useless in protecting children from a virus, they are

at low risk of becoming sick. The mandated mask wearing actually makes children sick. Yet

school administrators refuse to follow the science that means listening to parents instead

of the so-called experts. Replacing parental control with government control of education

and other aspects of child raising has been a goal of authoritarian since Plato. After all,

it's much easier to ensure obedience if someone has been raised to think the government

as the source of all wisdom and truth as well as the provider of all of life's necessities.

In contrast to an authoritarian society, a free society recognizes that parents have

both the responsibility and the right to provide their children with a quality education

that reflects the parents' values. Teachers who use their position to indoctrinate children

and the belief that contradicts the views of their parents are the ones overstepping

the bounds. Restoring parental control of education should be a priority for all who

believe in liberty. If government can override the wishes of parents in the name of his education

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