Mark Warner: We Need Parents Involved in Their Children’s Education

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WARNER: "Dana, I think Glenn Youngkin touched a nerve that was felt in Virginia, but, frankly, felt all over the country. And I think, sometimes, our response, yes, we need to make sure that we increase teacher pay. Matter of fact, we have put — the federal government has put more money into education both under Trump and under Biden in the last 18 months after — through COVID than ever in our history. I do think we need to acknowledge that it's been hell for every parent living through COVID, disrupting their life. I think we need to thank our teachers. I think we need to thank our school board members. And I think we needed to have acknowledged the challenge that parents have felt and that we need parents' involvement in their kids' education. And, candidly, when we think about additional funding for school, I think one of the most important things we need to have talked about and should be talking about is, I think a lot of those kids and a lot of folks, frankly, that have been working in schools are going to need some mental health assistance. I think the aftermath of COVID is not going to be simply solved as we get these schools reopened. But getting schools reopened does require the kind of hard choices this president has made about vaccines."