{"id":197,"date":"2022-01-11T14:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T14:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rubinwealthadvisors.com\/rubinreport\/?p=197"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:17:10","slug":"parents-role-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rubinwealthadvisors.com\/rubinreport\/parents-role-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Dismissing Parents\u2019 Role In Their Children\u2019s Education Is Not A Politically Savvy Move"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Dismissing Parents\u2019 Role In Their Children\u2019s Education Is Not A Politically Savvy Move<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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By\u00a0Edward J. Pozzuoli,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0President of Fort Lauderdale-based law firm\u00a0Tripp Scott<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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One lesson that was certainly reinforced in 2021, amid political upsets and COVID wreckage, is that parents will engage to protect their children\u2019s health and education against dictates from out-of-touch politicians and bureaucrats with records of vacillation and failure. The battle has become parental freedom vs. the self-interest of the teachers\u2019 unions.<\/p>

Urban League research correlates increased parental engagement with improved student academic achievement; better behavioral outcomes, emotional functioning and self-control within the classroom; increased attendance; lower dropout rates; and higher college enrollment.<\/p>

As shown most directly in Virginia, moms and dads nationwide are revolting when kids were not only forced into extended lockdowns and mindless mask mandates in opposition to parents\u2019 preferences, but were also being indoctrinated into woke political agendas against their will. The parental uprising in Virginia intensified when Virginia\u2019s Democratic candidate for governor, Terry McAuliffe, insisted during a debate, \u201cI\u2019m not going to let parents come into schools and make their own decision. \u2026 I don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.\u201d<\/p>

Then at McAuliffe\u2019s final rally right before the election, Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) boss was the keynote speaker, having just endorsed on Twitter an article headlined: \u201cParents claim they have the right to shape their children\u2019s curriculum. They don\u2019t.\u201d It was the AFT who spearheaded the disastrous COVID-19 school-closing campaign.<\/p>

Thus, at the most recent election in November, a potent dose of \u201cparent power\u201d evaporated McAuliffe\u2019s eight-point lead, producing a humiliating two-point loss. The education issue cost McAuliffe the election.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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