Op-Ed: Federal Parents Bill of Rights Act important first step to reestablish authority in education
This article originally appeared in Washington Times on March 21, 2023
Horace Mann, a leading advocate of state-run common schools in the 19th century, wrote: “We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.”
His complaints about “deplorably ignorant” parents who “inculcate false principles” and “establish bad habits” in their “offspring” perfectly capture the mindset of progressive education administrators today. Too many believe they are the rightful architects of every child’s moral education.
Yet not even Horace Mann could have imagined a public educational establishment pushing radical gender ideology on its young student hostages. Schools are putting children on the road to dangerous and irreversible medical intervention. Many have policies in effect that require teachers to lie to parents about their children’s mental health so that they can affirm in secret these minor children’s social transition. All the while, library shelves are overflowing with obscene, even pornographic material...
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