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Thursday, November 03, 2005
It's a really great day to be a homeschooler
"We agree, and hold that there is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children, either independent of their right to direct the upbringing and education of their children or encompassed by it. We also hold that parents have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed while enrolled as students."
--Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Nov. 3, 2005
Here's the Rachel's Paraphrased Edition(TM):
"Just because you're their parents doesn't mean you can make decisions about how you'll raise them. Sheesh, who did you think you were, the government?"
And the kicker is, for a ton of families there's no way around this. Of course, you can always pay for private school, or stay home and teach them yourselves, right? Oh, wait, you can't? Gee, that's tough.
Comments
Oh goodness! Where did you find this??
Posted by: debi at November 3, 2005 04:58 PM
That is scary with a capital S. And it makes me angry. What the heck? I'm speechless.
Posted by: Denise at November 3, 2005 10:06 PM
They actually said that? You know what I heard? That someone tried to pass a law that you couldn't talk about God in public. It was overturned by one vote. Thank God for whoever that was...
Posted by: jenn at November 4, 2005 12:54 AM
What happened today was that the ninth circuit court of appeals (the one in SF) handed down a decision that said that parents DO NOT have the right to opt their kids out of school s e x education. It started with a lawsuit on behalf of parents against a school that conducted a s e x -related survey among its young students without parental consent or notification. Here is a news story about the decision, and here is an opinion piece about it.
Posted by: Rachel at November 4, 2005 01:07 AM
Every time I think the 9th Circuit Court has done the most outrageous thing it could, it comes up with this crap. Where, exactly, do they get off? Typical liberal crap, thinking they know much better than we do how to live our lives and raise kids.
Didn't Ronald Reagan say something like "Some of the scariest words are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"?
This is getting scary.
Posted by: mary at November 4, 2005 05:44 AM
After skimming the whole opinion I find the scarier point to be that this school district allowed someone, probably a graduate student in psychology, to use their students as guinea pigs in a questionable study. More appalling is that parents, even after reading the disclaimers in the permission slip, allowed their children to participate in the research. Would you allow your children to participate in any study, let alone one which you hadn't read and approved? Not this mommy! The parents who sued, I think, used the wrong tactic. They should have challenged the school district's tacit approval of using tender minors in a psychological study as unethical and immoral.
Posted by: Karen at November 4, 2005 02:29 PM
I personally attended a Christian private school. They were convinced that at 16 we still didn't know where babies came from so they proceeded to teach us. Scary.
Posted by: Mabel at November 5, 2005 05:52 PM
