Who's the Primary Stakeholder?

  This just might be the modern-day equivalent of the “shot heard ‘round the world.” “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions….I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

   That statement was made by Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. He was responding to said in response to his Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin who said that while McAuliffe believes “school systems should tell children what to do,” Youngkin believes “parents should be in charge of their kids’ education.”

   Let’s add another. Biden’s Educational Secretary Miguel Cordona recently was testifying before the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Senator Mike Braun from Indiana asked Cordona: “Do you think parents should be in charge of their child’s education as the primary stakeholder?” The Secretary responded, “I believe parents are important stakeholders, but I also believe educators have a role in determining educational programming.”

   Note that wording. Secretary Cordona didn’t say parents are the primary stakeholders in their child’s education. In his worldview, they are just “important stakeholders.” Big difference.

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