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cynthia -> RE: Protecting Our Children (7/19/2008 1:14:18 PM)
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Anyone who thinks they have any parental rights regarding what their children are being taught or exposed to in school ought to read the federal court ruling partially quoted here. If you think you have a right to direct the education of your children, that right only applies if the child is not in public school. The document that is linked in the op would not be worth the paper it is printed on.
For the complete document from which the following quotes have been taken Click Link here. This is from a ruling from the 9 th circuit court regarding parental lack of rights and the right of the school to teach anything they think children ought to know, whether it goes against parents religious beliefs or not.
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Indeed parents “do not have a fundamental [due process] right generally to direct how a public school teaches their child.” Id.(quoting Blau v. Fort Thomas Pub. Sch. Dist., 401 F.3d381, 395 (6th Cir. 2005)). That is the central holding of our opinion and no party interested in this case, including Appellants and amici, has cited any authority holding otherwise.
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Our opinion is straightforward and dutifully applies Supreme Court and circuit court precedent. It holds simply, as other courts have held, that parents of public school children are not possessed of a constitutional right, either under the Substantive Due Process Clause or the related right to privacy, to restrict the public schools from providing information on the subject of sex. No federal court has ever found such a right in the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Constitution or in the right to privacy. To hold otherwise would misperceive the nature of the constitutional right at issue.
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Making intimate decisions and controlling the state’s dissemination of information regarding intimate matters are two entirely different subjects. With respect to the latter, no information of a private nature – indeed no information at all – regarding any individual was disseminated. Moreover, no constitutional provision prohibits the dissemination of general information on subject of public interest to children or to adults (unless it is the Establishment or the Treason Clause). Thus the right of the parents “to control the upbringing of their children by introducing them to matters of and relating to sex in accordance with their personal and religious values and beliefs” – the right to privacy here asserted – does not entitle them to prohibit public schools from providing students with information that the schools deem to be educationally appropriate.
In other words, the public school can teach anything they want to the children under their authority, including any kind of sexual information, at any age and the parents cannot do a thing about it. It doesn’t matter if you send the school a document telling not to teach your child about sex. They may keep the document on file, just to be aware of the religious fanatics in their midst, but it won’t give your child any protection. When a parent puts a child into the public school, the parents give their children over to the school to be taught whatever the schools deem appropriate, as long as they don’t teach the children anything religious or treasonous.
If you don’t want your children learning this stuff in their school either don’t send them to the public school or make sure you have them in a school that has policies in place prohibiting the teaching of sexual matters in the school, then be vigilant in watching to make sure it isn’t happening. Unfortunately, you probably wouldn’t find out about it until after the fact.
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