American law has long recognized the importance of parental rights. A parent’s right to oversee the care, education, and control of his or her child is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, and was confirmed by the Supreme Court in 1923, in Meyer v. Nebraska, and as recently as 2000, in Troxel v. Granville.
To raise and educate a child as parents see fit is—and always has been—on a par with the other fundamental, constitutionally guaranteed rights.
Worryingly, one school district in Maryland is acting like parental rights are no longer valid.
In Montgomery County, Maryland, educators are actively keeping information about something as critical as a student’s gender identity preference hidden from parents—an action in direct contravention of legally guaranteed parental rights, and in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
The Left believes that the State knows best, that children must be
programmed to readily accept State propaganda, State handouts,
State rationing and State ideals (none of which, curiously, are ideal.)
Schools and the media are nearly the exclusive educators of the children of
those who ignore the full meaning of parenthood.