Virginia Democrats have hit a new low in their battle to keep Gov. Glenn Youngkin from making good on his promise to give parents more say over their children's education. On Tuesday the Democratic Senate voted to reject the Governor's nominee for the state board of education amid nasty racial insinuations.
Click above for the embedded video at the link Mr. Youngkin's nominee is Suparna Dutta, an India-born woman who confounded the parents group at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. That group accused the high school of abandoning its merit-based admissions standards to reduce the number of Asian-Americans admitted. Ms. Dutta is an engineer and advocate for STEM education. Democrats say she is unqualified to serve on the board because she has no background in education.
What they mean is she dissents from progressive orthodoxy. The vote to kill her nomination came a week after a heated dispute with board member Anne Holton, Sen. Tim Kaine’s wife. Among Ms. Dutta’s “controversial” remarks was her criticism of socialism and defending the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Never mind that Ms. Dutta lived under socialism in India. More…
I watched the vid of the Dutta-Holton debate. Dutta knows her stuff and Holton does not. Especially on socialism, as Dutta had lived under socialism in India. Holton knows nothing about it. But Dems supports her because … well, because … socialism Good; and merit-based education Bad. Oh dear.
