Virginia Democrats' teachable moment By Corey DeAngelis October 21, 2021 11:00 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Virginia Democrats' teachable moment By Corey DeAngelis October 21, 2021 11:00 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print President Joe Biden and Gov. Ralph Northam both decisively won Virginia in their last elections by about 10 percentage points. Yet with Election Day approaching, polling shows former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin neck and neck in the race to succeed Northam. What accounts for the shift? Put plainly, Democrats are getting schooled in the importance of educational freedom. One of the silver linings of the coronavirus pandemic is that the public school system’s inadequate version of remote instruction provided an unprecedented level of curriculum transparency. Millions of families were finally given the opportunity to see what was going on in their children’s classrooms — once the children were allowed back in classrooms, that is. And many parents weren’t happy about it. “Zoom school” access showed parents that in-person learning in government institutions had plenty of problems, too. Families started to push back across the country, and Virginia’s Loudoun County quickly became the epicenter of these contentious debates. In fact, the National School Boards Association cited an incident in Loudoun County in its controversial Sept. 29 letter to the Biden administration calling for federal involvement and suggesting that some protesting parents should be considered domestic terrorists. One...