Parents' rights: educators have been waging a covert war on parents - who are starting to fight back. (includes related articles on home schooling and school conflicts in Massachusetts)(Back to School)

From: National Review | Date: September 30, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Parents are beginning to fight back against school systems that teach inappropriate or offensive sexual education classes or other controversial topics. The Parents' Rights and Responsibilities Act has been introduced in Congress, and 28 state legislatures are considering similar bills.

Educators have been waging a covert war on parents -- who are starting to fight back.

CRAIG Goddard's first-grade son came home from public school one day and told his father that women could change themselves into men and men into women. It turns out that the boy, a student at Brookline Elementary ...

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