(cont'd from yesterday's post)
A power struggle is taking place in public schools over the question of who has authority to choose what is best for children. Government schools claim it for themselves (yesterday's post) and deny it to parents. Courts are deciding the answer in cases around America.
Decisions vary. Muslim, Jewish and Christian parents fought back in Maryland. They wanted the freedom to release their kids from LGBTQ curriculum, to opt out; but the judge denied them that freedom. She said parents had no right to do that.
Is it true that parents don't have that right before the law in America? Judges are supposed to make decisions that are consistent with precedent, that is, "previous judicial decisions on the same subject."
Precedent in American law is solidly on the side of parents in multiple cases. In 2000, the Supreme Court said, "“The interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children is the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court.”
That Maryland judge was acting on her own preference or politics, but clearly not on the side of established law in America. "Supreme Court precedent unequivocally establishes parents’ fundamental rights in raising and nurturing their children . . ."
from The Stream
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