Yes, Virginia parents should tell schools what to teach

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Rarely are the differences between two candidates for public office perfectly crystallized into a single minute of debate. But such a minute transpired in Alexandria, Virginia, during a recent gubernatorial debate between Clinton fundraiser Terry McAuliffe and businessman Glenn Youngkin.

Asked about the Virginia Department of Education policy that allows anyone to use whatever restroom he or she wants regardless of biological sex, Youngkin responded, “What we’ve seen over the course of this last 20 months is our school systems refusing to engage with parents. In fact, in Fairfax County this past week, we watched parents get upset because there was such sexually explicit material in the library they had never seen. It was shocking.”

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