Ahead of Youngkin’s Inauguration, Virginia Parents Skeptical He Will Follow through on Campaign Promises

Education became the main issue in Virginia governor-elect Glenn Youngkin’s campaign, but now parents want to make sure he lives up to his campaign promises ahead of his Jan. 15 inauguration.

Youngkin won with the help of parents who were fed up with the current administration and the state’s policies, and made it clear they wanted to see change in Virginia’s education system.

“I think between Loudoun County and the other parents around the state learning and realizing that this radical ideology and the psychological manipulative curriculum was in their kid’s school really helped to propel Youngkin to become the nominee and became the central theme, rightfully so, of his campaign,” Scott Mineo a Virginia parent and founder of Parents Against Critical Race Theory (PACT), a coalition of parents fighting Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the state, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Younkin promised to ban concepts like CRT and to put parents first. His opponent, Terry McAuliffe, slipped out of favor when he claimed CRT was a “racist dog whistle” and made the assertion that he doesn’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.