Terry McAuliffe, it turns out, sends his children to the private Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C., and the candidate’s wife Dorothy McAuliffe served as chair of the board of trustees for the school while their children were students.
An annual report published by the Potomac School in 2008 and obtained by Townhall includes a letter from trustee board chair Dorothy McAuliffe and later lists the family as having students in second grade, seventh grade, and tenth grade.
Current tuition at the Potomac School runs from $39,150 for kindergarten through third grade to $45,650 for ninth through twelfth grade.
We all agree that a family pursuing the best possible education for their children is okay, however, when a member of that family runs on a record of vetoing school choice bills and a platform of denying parents the right to influence the education given to their children, that is not a good look.
But that is what Terry and Dorothy McAuliffe have done?
Ad Governor of Virginia in 2016, Terry McAuliffe vetoed three bills that would have expanded school choice in the Commonwealth, claiming that allowing parents to take the education dollars allocated for their children to the best possible school for them would send “the wrong signal” about public education.
So while McAuliffe has the ability to send his kids to the best schools money can buy, he doesn’t want less privileged Virginia families to have the same opportunity because he’s worried public schools might get a bad rap as parents yank their kids and put them in better institutions.
As for his statement in Tuesday night’s debate that parents should NOT have a voice or role in selecting what their children learn, his own wife was the chair of the board of trustees at the school their children attended, allowing her to have a role in telling the Potomac School what they should teach and how they should operate.
The Potomac School’s trustees, according to the board website, are “responsible for establishing broad policy goals that align the operation of the school with its mission, providing fiduciary oversight of the school’s operations, and supporting long-range strategic planning to ensure Potomac’s future.”
Dorothy McAuliffe’s role as chair of that board certainly sounds like a position that allows parents to tell schools what they should teach and how they should operate, despite her husband’s insistence that such oversight shouldn’t take place.
If parents shouldn’t have an oversight role in their kids’ education, the McAuliffes apparently don’t have to abide by those same rules.
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“Ask better questions” is what Terry McAuliffe just told a reporter, getting pretty snippy and shrill with him, accordinbg to the Washington Examiner story “Terry McAuliffe shuts down interview and chides reporter for not asking ‘better questions'” by Asher Notheis on 0 October 2021, where we had Terry seeming to lose it, as follows:
Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, shut down an interview while complaining about the questions.
ABC 7, a D.C.-area affiliate, interviewed McAuliffe and his GOP rival, Glenn Youngkin, on Oct. 13 and 14 respectively.
The outlet said both were given 20 minutes to talk about how they would lead Virginia if elected next month.
McAuliffe ended his interview after a little more than 10 minutes, telling interviewer Nick Minock he “should have asked better questions early on.”
The ABC 7 transcript shows he ended it after a member of the Democrat’s team claimed they were out of time.
“Hey, I gave you extra time,” McAuliffe told the interviewer as he stood up and left.
“C’mon, man.”
“You should have asked better questions early on.”
“You should have asked questions your viewers care about.”
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Terry sounds like he is channeling Joe Biden there with that “C’mon, man, you should have asked better questions early on,” which is rapidly becoming a classic political line here in America as more and more Democrats will emulate Terry McAuliffe, an authority figure in the Democrat pantheon, by using that same excuse to duck the hard questions they don’t want to answer, usually because they can’t – “if you would have asked better questions than you did, I would have answered them, but you didn’t so I won’t, and it’s all your fault for not asking better questions!”