Georgetown professor slammed for comparing parents wanting input at schools to passengers flying plane

That analogy didn’t quite land.

Don Moynihan, a professor of political science at Georgetown University, was criticized online for his response to a tweet from former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying, “I think parents should decide what their children are taught in schools. That is all,” the College Fix reported. Next to it, Moynihan put a New Yorker cartoon in which a man says, “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?”, to which all aboard raise their hands.

“Same energy,” Moynihan wrote.

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Twitter users were quick to point out the analogy’s failings. Dan McLaughlin of National Review called it “astounding in its combination of presumption and arrogance,” and journalist Matthew Yglesias questioned whether Moynihan really thought it wise to leave education solely to experts.

Bodybuilder Steve Cook asked whether Moynihan could be “anymore wrong,” and journalist Kyle Hooten suggested Moynihan “hate[s] democracy.”

When pressed on whether he thought curricula should be designed without parental input, Moynihan said, “Of course not.”

“It has always been a balance between democratic control and expertise,” he continued. “But the new emphasis on ‘parental control’ is not about that, but about asserting conservative control to exclude certain topics.”

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This week, the Department of Justice announced it would be working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to address threats made to teachers and school board members. Parents have become more vocal over the past year in their objections to critical race theory in classrooms and school mask mandates, prompting friction with school administrators and political figures on the Left.