<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia">Virginia</a> Governor Glenn Youngkin has continued to push forward with his pro-parental rights agenda as he campaigns for state lawmakers ahead of this November&#8217;s elections in the state.</p>
<p>Youngkin&#8217;s administration recently slammed the Fairfax County Public Schools’ decision to defy the state&#8217;s guidelines against radical gender theory.</p>
<p>&#8220;The law requires the Virginia Department of Education to provide model policies and requires school boards to adopt policies consistent with those provided by the Department,&#8221; his administration <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/youngkin-rips-virginias-largest-school-district-false-notion-know-better-parents">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;The Fairfax County Public Schools policies diverge from VDOE model policy guidance and perpetuate a false notion that FCPS knows what&#8217;s better for a child than a child&#8217;s parent. The Fairfax County school board is expected to follow the law.&#8221;</p>
<p>Youngkin also took a shot at teachers unions during a recent event in Georgia, saying that the organizations are literally designed to be &#8220;a political organization&#8221; that his administration has to &#8220;battle every day.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Virginia&#39;s recovery: </p>
<p>&quot;I don&#39;t think there&#39;s any better example of bad leftist policies that weren&#39;t working and then common-sense conservative policies that do work&#8230;&quot;<a href="https://t.co/deE3gi3lHq">pic.twitter.com/deE3gi3lHq</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1696229316269379803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Youngkin also <a href="https://grabien.com/getmedia.php?id=2053839&amp;key=7cd349fc76c84499dda330a16df78f46&amp;userid=17147">said</a> during a separate recent interview that the government&#8217;s policies about parents should be common sense, &#8220;parents are in charge of their children’s lives.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The kids don’t belong to the state. They belong to the parents and to families,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And they have the ultimate say in decisions that that child is going to make with a parent, not with a bureaucrat. And finally, at the end of the day, these are the exact same school systems that fought us on allowing parents to decide whether children wear a mask or whether sexually explicit materials could be removed from the curriculum, or that schools were going to stay shut for a long period of time, unnecessarily long, which resulted in massive learning loss.&#8221;</p>
<p>Youngkin&#8217;s continued push to advance parental rights comes as Democrats have attacked him over the issue, including Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA).</p>
<p>&#8220;You think about the DeSantis model. Governor Youngkin has often talked about Governor DeSantis of Florida as kind of a role model for him as governor,&#8221; Kaine <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1695435944445255916">said</a>. &#8220;Look you see efforts underway in Virginia in some local school jurisdictions to ban books, pull books out of school libraries, to pull books out of the public library system.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Daily Wire has previously reported how schools in Loudoun County, Virginia, removed a book titled “Gender Queer: A Memoir” from library shelves due to its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-to-remove-gender-identity-book-with-graphic-illustrations-from-school-libraries">highly graphic</a> nature.</p>
<p>Youngkin has also faced attacks from local media over the matter, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, whose editorial board argued that it was &#8220;just difficult, if not impossible&#8221; to see how &#8220;removing sexually explicit books and focusing on who gets to use what bathrooms are going to help any student or school improve academically.&#8221;</p>
<p>The editorial board mocked those who don&#8217;t want their children to be taught about &#8220;gender-switching athletes stealing lacrosse scholarships from pigtailed, cisgender girls,&#8221; and downplayed the national security threats posed by Chinese-controlled TikTok.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">“It’s difficult, if not impossible, to see how removing sexually explicit books is going to help why student or school improve academically” </p>
<p>A real argument from the <a href="https://twitter.com/RTDNEWS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RTDNEWS</a> editorial board against Youngkin’s parental rights efforts. <a href="https://t.co/H1ckvBpUkw">https://t.co/H1ckvBpUkw</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1695822585756287265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2023</a></p></blockquote>

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