Concerned Women For America - Library s 8/26/1999 Putting “Sexual“ rights Before parental rights 6/14 12/18/1997 -Parents Unable to teach Children 12 18/1997 - Same-sex Weddings in school 11/21 http://www.cwfa.org/library.asp?category=education
Parental Rights A parent has the right to teach morality to their children AS LONG We do NOT needa parental rights bill for dinner or the clothes they bought for school or the http://www.angelfire.com/co/rainbowlady/parentright.html
Extractions: Lord Acton, The History of Freedom in Antiquity, 1877 Parental Rights There has, for the past several years, been a push for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that would prevent any governmental agency or body from interfering in the moral upbringing of a child by the parent or legal guradian of that child. Fortunately, no such amendment has passed either of the legislative bodies of the federal government, but many states have had such a bill pass in either the state house or senate. God protect the children of whatever state passes such an amendment. Children are already treated like property in this country. The Constitution guarantees all of us certain rights. An amendment to the constitution giving parents special rights will take away many of the rights guaranteed by the constitution to every citizen, including children. The government MUST have the right to enter a home and remove a child from an abusive environment. The government MUST have the right to force a parent to feed, clothe, house and educate their children. The government MUST have the right to protect children from those who would take advantage of their youth and naivete. If the government is denied such a right, then children are being denied their constitutional rights. A parent has the right to teach morality to their children AS LONG AS SUCH TEACHING DOESN'T VIOLATE THE CHILD'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!!!!!!
PNW A Thorny Issue A Thorny Issue Tolerance and parental rights think such a man should have the rightto teach his son his son can have the right to go to school thinking and http://www.bridges-across.org/ba/pnw_thorny_issue.htm
Extractions: Maggie Heineman here. My email to Patricia closed with the line, "Okay, Patricia, what's the answer to the thorny question?" Patricia had written about her appearance on a talk show with a conservative Christian host, Ray, who was respectful and good to work with. She said "We fenced around for half an hour on how safety in school could be achieved without abridging what he views as his right to teach his own kid thathomosexuality is a sin." I wrote back asking,
ACLU NewsWire - 05/01/96 'Parental Rights' Bills Draw Battles Times said, include the parental rights and Responsibilities undermine the valuesparents teach to our the American Association of school Administrators, the http://archive.aclu.org/news/w050196d.html
Extractions: You are currently visiting the ACLU online archives. These pages are not updated. For the latest information from the ACLU, go to http://www.aclu.org May 1, 1996: 'Parental Rights' Bills Draw Battles Congress and state legislatures around the country are becoming battlegrounds over politically charged "parental rights" bills, The New York Times reported today in a front-page report. The Times said that the "parental rights" bills are pitting conservatives and religious-right groups seeking broader protections for parents against education, public health and civil liberties organizations who say such laws are major threats to children and schools. The bills, the Times said, include the Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act pending in Congress and proposals for amendments to state constitutions that have been introduced in 28 states and are the subject of a referendum drive in Colorado. No laws have yet been enacted. "What we're trying to insure through this legislation is very simple: that schools reinforce rather than undermine the values parents teach to our children in our homes, churches and synagogues," said Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition. He is countered by a coalition of more than 40 education, health, women's, child advocacy and civil liberties groups, the Times said. The critics include the National Education Association, the National P.T.A., the American Association of School Administrators, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League.
Frequently Asked Questions :: The Rutherford Institute Please see our Freedom Resource Brief B9 entitled parental rights and Opt-Out PoliciesTrends in Case Law Can the public school legally teach this? http://www.rutherford.org/resources/faq.asp
Extractions: A: These investigations are usually initiated by a call to your state's child abuse hotline or calls to your local Department of Child Welfare (this term varies from state to state) by someone who suspects that a child has been abused. Typically, you do not have to allow the workers into your home without a warrant. However, if the officials feel the need to do so, they will obtain a warrant and return with a police officer and demand entry. (Of note, if it is suspected that a child is in imminent danger, the workers or the police will enter your home without your consent or a warrant.) Whether or not they can or will take your children depends on whom the charges are against and what type of charges you, a caretaker, or a sibling are being accused of. Please see our Freedom Resource Brief E-9 entitled Social Service Investigations for more information regarding this subject.
NCLR - California's Parental Opt-Out Statutes their children in public schools, parental rights are generally or middle schooland once in high school. AIDS prevention, but also must teach students other http://www.nclrights.org/publications/parentoptout.htm
Extractions: Click here to return to the publications page Why was this question and answer guide developed? Public school administrators, board members, and teachers in California may face the difficult task of balancing their responsibilities to make decisions about the content of curricular and other school activities, against parents' desire to control the content of the their children's instruction, and/or "opt out" of controversial aspects of the curriculum. California's education laws are complex, and both parents and school administrators are sometimes misled by false claims about "parental rights." Specifically, some advocacy groups have inaccurately claimed that California public schools may not implement diversity or tolerance curricula without parental permission. This question and answer guide was developed by the California Safe Schools Coalition to provide accurate, reliable information on the rights, duties, and options of public schools, teachers, parents and students under California law.
Homeschool Central Sites Of The Week - 2002 the defense of religious freedom, parental rights, and other questions suitable forgrade 3 through high school. teach your children how to apply the founding http://homeschoolcentral.com/sites2002.htm
Extractions: Product Reviews ... Advertise Homeschool Central - Sites of the Week - 2002 If you missed our homeschool site of the week, that's ok, here's a listing of them for you. December 15 - Christmas in Cyberspace- a Christian perspective . This is our favorite Christmas site. You have to visit this one. November 15 - Thanksgiving site from Homeschooled Kids Online This is a great site for teaching about Thanksgiving. November 1 - Some people vote for the person and not the party in elections. We have to realize that our country is controlled by the parties in power. The fact that so few judicial appointments are even getting hearings with a Democrat controlled senate is a case in point. Here is a link to a couple of letters to the editor that speak to why we need to vote party and not person. Here is another article from Mike Rosen in the Rocky Mountain News October 11 - Pacific Justice Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) legal defense organization specializing in the defense of religious freedom, parental rights, and other civil liberties.
Extractions: This publication is a service of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, Inc. (FCF) and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Free Congress Foundation nor is it an attempt to aid or hinder the passage of any bill.Nor is it an attempt to assist or defeat any candidate running for public office. Receive Free Commentaries Daily Seeing A Problem Where None Exists: California Educrats Eye Home Schooling By Paul M. Weyrich September 12, 2002 The next knock on the door of many California homes may send unnecessary shivers down the spines of parents concerned enough about their children's education to teach them at home. It's an outrage and something that should get Californians mad enough to make some of the bureaucrats in the California Department of Education write on the blackboard two hundred times: "Home Schooling is not illegal in the state of California."
Bad Books October 4. 2000 Plano parental rights Council issues press release. of the RiceMiddle school Reconsideration Committee as a tool to teach literary analysis http://www.planoprc.org/bad_books.htm
Extractions: Home What's New Other Parent Friendly Websites School Finance ... About Us Have you read what your child's been reading lately? See also: Parents Against Bad Books in School a parent organization in Fairfax County, Virginia with an extensive website about book challenges TOP's For Kids a new parent organization in Fort Bend, Texas that began because of a book challenge. (TOP's stands for Ticked Off Parents) In October 2000 a Plano parent filed a book challenge to remove Paul Zindel's novel The Pigman from the curriculum for middle school students. She was eventually successful, however it took alot of work and dedication. Parent Jeanne Johnston was stunned that a public school district would consider this book appropriate for a twelve year old. Here is a chronological look at the events. October 4. 2000 Plano Parental Rights Council issues press release. October 8, 2000 The Plano Star Courier writes an in depth article about The Pigman. Read it here. November 7, 2000 Read this teacher's analysis of The Pigman. Donna Garner, a teacher from Hewitt, Texas known across the state and the country as one of the authors of the Texas Alternative Document English standards gives insights into why this book might be assigned to your child. You can also read our recent informational mailer which went out to families in the Rice Middle School area.
Plano Parental Rights Council peppered school board education/community/policy committee members Tuesday nightwith questions about Connected Mathematics, a program being used to teach http://www.planoprc.org/new.htm
Extractions: Home What's New Other Parent Friendly Websites School Finance ... About Us Be advised that because of major changes in the design of the Dallas Morning News website, many of the older links on this page no longer work. Additionally, some newspaper do not archive articles indefinitely so articles may no longer be accessible. What's New? March 31, 2003 Passing rates on TAKS show room to improve , Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Local school districts were pleasantly surprised with the scores this month on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills third-grade reading test. Northeast Tarrant County school districts all earned passing rates, scoring 92 percent or higher. But a closer look at the results reveals there is room for improvement. If area students were required to answer 66 percent of the questions correctly to pass, the standard that will be required in the 2004-05 school year, Hurst-Euless-Bedford's and Northwest's passing rates would have dropped from 92 to 85 percent, according to test reports. March 28, 2003
NHERI - Welcome! on issues related to parental rights, the freedom we have to teach our childrenat home, and home schoolers coordinating with local school officials. http://www.nheri.org/content.php?menu=8&page_id=1
University Of Michigan Law School: Centers And Programs said Breger, a 1994 graduate of the law school who returned to teach in 1999. stateFamily Independence Agency in termination of parental rights cases http://www.law.umich.edu/CentersAndPrograms/clinical/aanewscalc01-1111.htm
Extractions: "We're in charge of a child's life and that's not something students can take lightly," said Breger, a 1994 graduate of the law school who returned to teach in 1999. "They must be professional enough to see all sides so they won't lose their objectivity, yet they must be compassionate enough to understand the child's delicate situation."
Mathematically Correct: Web Links Of Interest from an Illinois Parent; Plano parental rights Council; Arizona school Wise Press.Literature Big Business, Race, and Klein, in How to teach Mathematics, by http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/links.htm
Extractions: The following web links may be of interest in finding out more about mathematics education. Literature Big Business, Race, and Gender in Mathematics Reform , by David Klein, in "How to Teach Mathematics," by Steven Krantz Mathematics Recalculated , by John de Pillis, Professor of Mathematics, UC Riverside A Plea in Defense of Euclidean Geometry , by Barry Simon How should we group to achieve excellence with equity? , by Bonnie Grossen Research and Innovation: Let the Buyer Beware , by J. E. Stone and Andrea Clements Excerpts , and from Anderson, Reder, and Simon's Radical Constructivism and Cognitive Psychology in the book Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 1998 edited by Diane Ravitch The Educational System in Japan: Case Study Findings Value-Added Assessment: An Accountability Revolution by J.E. Stone The Anti-Content Mindset: The Root Cause of the "Math Wars" Constructivism in Education: Sophistry for a New Age , by Martin A. Kozloff
Schools, Parents Should Join To Teach Values parental figures, religious and community leaders, school representatives and Additionally,parental figures should serve as guides through All rights reserved http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/issues/v70/n29/faulk.29v.html
Extractions: In his article "Tomorrow's Lesson: Learn or Perish (October 15, 1992), Time reporter Michael D. Lemonick alluded to the fact computers will act as tutors, teachers will be well-paid heroes, and doing your homework will be a matter of survival. While Lemonick's assessment of tomorrow's schools may prove to be valid, I feel technological advances must first and foremost be preceded by the individual student's adherence to his/her moral conscience, the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. On any given evening, I can recline on the sofa with my wife Regina, turn on the television set with the press of a button, and listen as news reporters recount physical altercations that occurred between high school or junior high students. Many of these physical altercations involved the use of a firearm or some other weapon. During my four-year tenure at Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport, Tennessee, the use of a firearm was almost unheard of. We preferred more traditional ways of settling disputes fingers, fists, elbows and knees. The Bureau for At-Risk Youth, in its Project Violence is Preventable (VIP) manual (1995), reported gun violence is the third-leading cause of death for teenage youth. Moreover, 12 percent of crimes in school buildings were committed by firearms, and young people (age 19 and under) are twice as likely as older Americans to be the victims of violent crime.
More School Testing Supports Textbook Publishing that these publishers help create come revised curriculum to teach what is is fine,but focusing our entire school structure around Preserving parental rights. http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2000/06/27/p10s3.htm
Extractions: e-mail this story to a friend In his opinion piece "Educational tests worth keeping" (June 22), Michael Kean praises the increase in testing of our public school students. It doesn't surprise me that he is so vocal in his support. As vice president at CTB/McGraw-Hill and chairman of the Test Committee of the Association of American Publishers, it would be a surprise if he didn't support them. The current drive for more testing is great for the textbook and test publishing businesses. With the tests that these publishers help create come revised curriculum to teach what is on the tests. Of course these same publishers are more than happy to provide new (and expensive) textbooks that align with the new curricula. My teachers and administrators are bombarded with new curricula, text books, and practice tests, each guaranteeing to improve the school's scores. All we have to do is buy the latest sure-fire teaching tool. I don't have a problem with increased accountability for our schools. But gone are the days when a truly creative teacher could take off with an interested group of students and investigate some challenging problem. We now have to make sure everybody is proficient before we can do that.
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Extractions: Carl McCall has reason to be upbeat as he heads into the final few weeks of his contest with Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic nomination for New York governor. Despite quibbles about the validity of one very favorable recent poll, observers of the race seem to agree that recent polling and momentum favor McCall in the September 10 primary. And McCall has moved in masterful, if characteristically low-key fashion to lock up key endorsements in the LGBT community. Responding to a complaint from 12 conservative members of Congress, 16 AIDS groups are the subjects of a federal inquiry into their spending at the July International AIDS Conference in Barcelona. And most of those groups protested a July 9 speech at the conference given by Tommy Thompson, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, so some activists are charging the inquiry is payback for shouting down Thompson. Even as the family of Edgar Garzon, a 35-year-old Colombian American who was brutally murdered last August in Jackson Heights, face the one-year anniversary of his death without the arrest of his killer, the intervention of Congressmember Joseph Crowley ensures that his parents will be able to stay in the U.S. as their late son had planned. Garzon, who was gay, was attacked in the early morning hours of August 16 and died nearly three weeks later on September 4.
Psychological Student Testing Called Intrusive Meddling in their own district to protect and advance parental rights. the faculty and administrationof the school she was the program was designed to teach her child http://members.iquest.net/~macihms/Education/psyed.html
Extractions: Psychological student testing called intrusive meddling By David M. Bresnahan Potentially violent school children might be detected in advance through the use of psychological testing, but a federal court has made that tougher to do. Concern over the shooting in Littleton, Colo., has brought forth proposals on ways to prevent such violence, which include psychological surveys to establish profiles of potential troublemakers. A federal lawsuit in Texas was settled in favor of stronger parental rights and more restrictions on what schools can and cannot do. A survey of elementary and high school children regarding sexuality, morality, personal beliefs, their parent's behavior, and similar personal issues prompted legal action by parents. A federal court has just handed them a major victory over teachers who conducted surveys against parent's wishes. Students were being given surveys, which the suit called "invasive and intrusive psychological exams." A federal court agreed and established requirements for parental notification and consent. "The signing of this federal court order signals a bright future for all parents in the San Antonio Independent School District and the protection of their parental rights in the education of their children. We are hopeful that districts across the state will take a look at what happened in this case and voluntarily implement the same or similar measures in their own district to protect and advance parental rights. Remember, parents are full partners with educators in the education of their children, and they need to be treated that way," said Texas Justice Foundation attorney Thomas W. Stack of the victory he obtained for the concerned parents in the suit.
Spotlight to build case law to support parental rights and real on equal terms. Politically,it keeps school choice on technology is transforming how we teach and learn http://www.thedoylereport.com/spotlight?object=archive[]&content_id=3036
The Claremont Courier a variety of issues related to parental rights and public is at least some rationalbasis for parental concern about decided not to teach summer school for the http://www.claremont-courier.com/061902/acluwrong.html
Extractions: Legal aide group says ACLU was wrong about sex survey June 19 Mark Goodman, an attorney for a leading student press rights organization, took the American Civil Liberties Union to task for comments made by one of its attorneys that, he said, have hurt local efforts "to fight censorship". The criticism concerns statements made by ACLU attorney Martha Matthews at a meeting last month. When asked whether a series of articles about sex published by the Claremont High School Wolfpacket on February 22 were protected under the First Amendment, Ms. Matthews said they were; but she went on to say that the survey of students' attitudes towards sex that was included in the series was probably prohibited by federal and state laws. The paper was criticized by some parents in the community for taking on teen sex as a subject in a publication that is widely read by the student body. Hearing that the ACLU, one of the leading advocates in the nation when it comes to First Amendment protection, would opine that the paper might have run afoul of state and federal statutes spurred Wolfpacket adviser Becca Feeney to contact the SPLC.
Home Schoolers Face Barriers In Oklahoma And when it comes to the issue of parental rights, Oklahoma's home is no requirementfor parents to contact school officials to teach their children http://www.cato.org/dailys/12-29-99.html
Extractions: December 29, 1999 by Isabel Lyman Isabel Lyman of Edmond, Okla., is writing a book on home schooling for the Cato Institute. "Thankfully," noted the lead editorial of the Daily Oklahoman, "the young people injured seem on the road to physical recovery." That was the good news after stunned Sooner State residents learned a week ago that an Oklahoma middle school student had shot several classmates with a handgun. But the horrific incident reminded me of my commitment to the educational phenomenon known as "home schooling." It also rekindled my disdain for a Oklahoma policy that treats home schoolers as "separate and unequal," a mentality that has locked my eldest son, a longtime home schooler, into attending public school. Here is why. Dan loves sports. In Massachusetts, he played football, ice hockey and lacrosse on the local public school teams while being home schooled. This year, my family and I moved from Amherst, Mass., to Edmond, Okla. We quickly discovered that home schoolers in this part of the heartland are denied access to public school athletic teams. Never mind that my son is bright and athletic. Never mind that my property taxes subsidize public education. All that matters to the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association is that he isn't legally enrolled in a government school.
