Excellent article by Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe today on the Lexington school sex scandal: A call for separation of school and state
Jaboby, a courageous conservative writing from the belly of the lefty Globe beast, makes a compelling case for giving the schools back to the parents:
Parents should have the same freedom in educating their kids that they have in clothing, housing, and feeding them. You wouldn't let the government decide what time your kids should go to bed, or which doctor should treat their chicken pox, or how they should spend their summer vacation, or which religion they should be instructed in. On matters serious and not so serious, parents are entrusted with their children's well-being. Why should schooling be an exception?
Not if the liberal educational elite and their judicial allies have anything to say about the matter!
Consider Judge Wolf's manifest sympathy for the "diversity" agenda of the Lexington school establishment over parents' rights. After condescendingly observing that the schools, out of the goodness of their hearts mind you, just might allow parents to absent their children from certain sex classes, the jurist adds this obnoxious qualification:
"An exodus from class when issues of homosexuality or same- sex marriage are to be discussed could send the message that gays, lesbians, and children of same-sex parents are inferior and therefore have a damaging effect on those students. Cf Brown vs Board of Education 347 U.S. 483, 494(1954). 2. It might also undermine the defendants' efforts to educate the remaining other students to understand and respect differences in sexual orientation."(Parker v. Hurley)
Now little Johnny won't even be allowed to leave the room. Talk about pouring salt into the parents' wounds!
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