{"id":525,"date":"2022-01-22T14:38:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T14:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/?p=525"},"modified":"2022-01-22T14:38:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T14:38:53","slug":"virginia-democrats-fight-to-hide-sexually-explicit-school-materials-from-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/2022\/01\/22\/virginia-democrats-fight-to-hide-sexually-explicit-school-materials-from-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Democrats Fight to Hide Sexually Explicit School Materials from Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Virginia Democrats are fighting not only to keep sexually explicit materials in public schools but also to kill a bill that would require school boards to notify parents of sexually explicit materials being introduced.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maintaining the ideology behind former Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe\u2019s campaign-ending gaffe\u00a0saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,\u201d Virginia Senate President Louise Lucas (D)\u00a0said, \u201cwhen it comes to what\u2019s in the curriculum, that should be left to the school boards and to the boards of education. And if a parent wants to opt out, I think they should have the right to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill before the Virginia General Assembly would provide an avenue for \u201cparental involvement\u201d and a \u201creasonable opportunity for public comment\u201d on printed and audiovisual materials available in school libraries, \u201cmandatory prior written parental consent\u201d before a student can check out such material, and \u201cthe removal from the school library of any such printed or audiovisual materials that could be considered grooming video or materials.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Lucas has promised a Senate \u201cbrick firewall\u201d for Republican legislation, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) said, \u201cI want to give parents the right to be informed before their child is exposed to sexually explicit materials,\u201d asking the legislature to send him a similar bill passed in 2017 for his signature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Democrats are fighting not only to keep sexually explicit materials in public schools but also to kill a bill that would require school boards to notify parents of sexually explicit materials being introduced. Maintaining the ideology behind former Democrat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}