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• During a 2021 Virginia gubernatorial debate, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe made a critical mistake that led to his defeat by GOP challenger Glenn Youngkin.
• Instead of acknowledging concerns that parents were having over school curriculum, McAuliffe dismissed them.
• “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decision,” McAuliffe said during the debate.
• But at Ocean Hill-Brownsville, it was Black and Latino parents who demanded their right to have a say in the education of their children.

Inside the classrooms

• In the 1960s, only a handful of textbooks on the Board of Education-approved list discussed the history of African Americans in significant detail.
• The lack of such material was widely blamed for the disappointing academic performance of Black and Latino students.
• Not everyone supported the changes to what was being taught in the classrooms.

• In this racially charged atmosphere, local parents enjoyed an unprecedented opportunity to assert their rights.
• Their recommendations would eventually influence the direction of curricula in the New York City public school system as a whole.

A constant struggle

• Indeed, in Virginia itself, Black parents are still having an effect on what is taught in public schools.
• Black politicians and parents criticized those revisions as “white-washing,” and the changes were later rejected by the state Board of Education.

• In a further blow to conservatives, parental activists helped shepherd new, more historically inclusive standards that were approved in April 2023.
• As history has shown – and today’s debates over school curricula show – “parental rights” are for all parents.

Jerald Podair does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

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