Across the country, parents are standing up to school boards and districts that attempt to hide violence in schools and important medical information like gender transitions from parents. It’s time for the education bureaucracy to admit that parents have a right to raise their kids. Schools shouldn’t be afraid of the voices of parents: they should welcome them.
In Case You Missed It a Washington Times op-ed, penned by Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), argues that parents have a constitutional and moral right to raise their children, and the government has no right to stand in their way.
It is unquestionable that parents have the right to make important decisions regarding their child’s well-being. Unfortunately, an increasing number of school districts are denying parents this fundamental right…
Rather than addressing the legitimate concerns of parents, many school boards are trying to obscure these policies from view—and the dangerous incidents that occur at schools because of them. Parents have every right to be infuriated.
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Obviously, a primary issue here is the safety of America’s children. When schools and school boards conceal these incidents from parents, they hinder parents from being able to protect their children. Clearly, school officials and teachers unions can’t be relied on to put students first — it is up to parents to carry that torch.
In fact, the left’s attacks on parental rights seem to know no bounds. There is a disturbing trend in some school districts to keep important health information about students hidden from parents, including gender transitions.
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Gender transitions are major decisions with lifelong consequences to the physical, emotional and psychological health of a child; withholding this information from parents undermines parental rights and is dangerous to the child.
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These malicious attacks on parental rights are precisely why we need the Parents Bill of Rights. Parents shouldn’t have to stand up to the powerful education bureaucracy alone, and Republicans in Congress are ready to support them. This legislation would empower parents to do the thing most important to them: protect their children.
Read the full op-ed here.
Original source can be found here.
