Check out this article. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California is at it again. When some parents were not all that pleased with some sex education courses and materials that were being used in their own government schools, they filed suit and lost. The 9th Circuit wrote that "there is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children.... 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."
Parents have no fundamental right be the exclusive providers of information regarding sexual matters to their children? Then they are no longer parents and have become merely surrogate breeders for the state to be the parent. Parents have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools? What happened to the concept of a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people"?
This mentality must not become prevalent in any level of government. Fortunately, it is less so at the town level than at the state or federal level. In Selma, we don't have the governance over the local schools as I wish we did. I believe that such matters of determination are best handled at the local level rather than a county or state. Either way, YOU, as a voter, must help safeguard against this mentality when electing school board officials, men who appoint the judiciary, and yes, even your town council and mayor.
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