In 2021, the campaign ship of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe ran aground, purportedly on the question of whether parents had the right to have a say in their children’s education. In the context of McAuliffe’s remarks, the reference was to random individual’s objections to particular school library books, but the condensed sound bite sunk the campaign.
The election that elected such a Board was one that the whole electorate had the chance to vote in. As such it has more legitimacy than an effort of a much smaller group to disrupt a meeting of that elected board after it has been elected.
The disrupters may be parents with some rights over the education of their own children. They have no such rights over the education of other parents’ children. The disrupters may be parents but no one elected them to speak for all parents and those who disagree with them have no duty to outshout the disrupters.
On Parents’ Rights (sic)
Another way to put this is:
The election that elected such a Board was one that the whole electorate had the chance to vote in. As such it has more legitimacy than an effort of a much smaller group to disrupt a meeting of that elected board after it has been elected.
The disrupters may be parents with some rights over the education of their own children. They have no such rights over the education of other parents’ children. The disrupters may be parents but no one elected them to speak for all parents and those who disagree with them have no duty to outshout the disrupters.