Parents of 50 Million Children to Lose Parental Rights

If your children attend public school, you are among those parents whose rights will end the moment your child enters the school. In 2005 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found inFields v. Palmdale School District “that the Meyer-Pierce right [of parents to direct the upbringing of their children] does not exist beyond the threshold of the school door.”

You read that right. The court originally held that Parental Rights “[do] not exist beyond the threshold of the school door.”

That line was so starkly offensive that it was edited out during an en banc review of the case, but the decision itself was retained, including the following:

“We conclude that the parents are possessed of no constitutional right to prevent the public schools from providing information on the subject [of sexuality] to their students in any forum or manner they select” (emphasis added).

Of course, most parents contend they don’t have a choice in where their children are schooled. Either economic constraints or personal circumstances leave them with no practical alternative to the local public school. And that leaves no parental rights at all... Read more @ Parents of 50 Million Children to Lose Parental Rights