The student walkouts taking place in nearly 100 public schools across Virginia today represent everything that’s wrong with our public education system. Students may barely be learning, but they are being trained as activists, thanks to encouragement from woke educators who think they have the right to override parental prerogatives and decide how children will be raised.

The student protests, openly incited by teachers, come in response to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new policy prohibiting schools from socially transitioning gender-confused students behind their parents’ backs. Under the new rule, teachers and administrators must obtain written parental consent before referring to a student by a different name or set of pronouns. Previously, they would deliberately hide students’ “gender identity” from parents.