A bill aimed at strengthening parental rights in their children’s education and upbringing that also prohibits classroom instruction on LGBT sexual orientation and gender identity has advanced through North Carolina’s legislative body. Teachers of children in kindergarten through to the third grade would be prohibited from providing classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity under…
Parents’ Bill of Rights Limiting LGBT Teachings Passes North Carolina’s Senate
June 2, 2022
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Lawsuit Would Restore Parental Rights: Candidate for Congress Tommy Altman
Tommy Altman, an Air Force veteran running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for Virginia’s 2nd district, recently filed a lawsuit over a sexually explicit book that has made its way into some Virginia public schools. Altman believes that parents have the right to decide if their child views a book that…
North Carolina Republicans Push Parents’ Bill of Rights That Bans K-3 Sex, Gender curriculum
May 26, 2022
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Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have pushed forward a bill to protect parents’ rights to direct their children’s upbringing, including the right to be informed of conversations the school has with their child about sex and gender. The bill, similar to one that recently became law in Florida, would ban public school curricula for grades…
Texas Moms Demand Revision of Textbook That Encourages Withholding Info From Parents
A parental rights watchdog is calling on the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) to redact an online curriculum that it believes encourages withholding information from parents about their child’s mental and physical health. In an email sent to a board member about language included in textbook publisher Goodheart-Willcox’s instructional material, Moms for Liberty alleges…
Parents Have No Right to Be Informed About Children’s Conversations With Teachers: Missouri Schools Policy
Nearly 70 schools in the state of Missouri have enacted policies stating that districts are not required to disclose conversations about “academics and personal issues” between students and teachers or counselors to the student’s parent or guardian. The policy, based on a sample provided by the Missouri School Board Association, was adopted by at least 68 Missouri school districts…
Moms for Liberty Co-founder: Parents Are Tired of Funding Failure
During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents across the nation voiced their frustrations over widespread school closures and harsh mask policies imposed on their children. With classrooms reopened and masking mandates phased out, however, many parents remain frustrated by the schools’ misplaced focus. Tiffany Justice, who co-founded parental rights advocacy group Moms for Liberty, told The Epoch…
Disney CEO Bob Chapek Should Resign or Be Fired: Florida Businessman
May 10, 2022
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Florida businessman Brett Kingstone called for Disney CEO Bob Chapek to resign or be fired following the company’s “woke” advocacy against a parental rights legislation in Florida. “It’s outrageous what Disney is doing. .. the company is supposedly based itself on family-friendly entertainment, it is the opposite now that they’re advocating,” Kingston, CEO of Max…
‘I Couldn’t Just Sit on the Sidelines Anymore’: North Carolina Parents Run for Local School Boards
April 28, 2022
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Like many parents who chose to run for their district school boards this year, Crissy Pratt had never been involved in local politics. That changed during the COVID-19 lockdowns when Pratt began watching the live-streamed Guilford County Board of Education meetings in North Carolina to keep up with the ever-changing COVID restrictions. What she saw…
North Carolina Foundation Lobbies State Legislature to Enact Parental Bill of Rights
April 22, 2022
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A parental Bill of Rights has been drafted in North Carolina to give parents more authority over their children’s public school education as well as to encourage legislative action. The John Locke Foundation (JLF)—a nonprofit research institute in Raleigh, North Carolina, that examines issues of freedom, personal responsibility, and limited constitutional government—wrote the potential contract…
Parents Rights: Round 2
Commentary The battle over whether parents, or public schools and elites should decide what goes into the minds and souls of students has entered a second stage. The Washington Times reports LGBTQ activist groups are complaining about parents who object to children as young as five being taught gender issues and reading books that contain profanities and…
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