Credit: Allison Shelley for American Education
The battle over parents’ rights in California is moving from packed school board meetings to contentious lawsuits. How these controversies are resolved will profoundly affect the rights of children, the rights of parents, and our obligation to educate our children to be responsible citizens in a democracy.
- Chino Valley Unified’s new policy requiring parents to be notified about a student’s gender identity requests has triggered a civil rights investigation.
- California Attorney General Rob Bonta is also looking at the adoption of a similar policy by Murrieta Valley Unified School District.
Which view of “rights” will prevail? There are three main tensions in this struggle:
The fundamental rights of parents to direct the care and upbringing of their children, including the right to be informed of and involved in all aspects of their child’s education to…
