Federal Courts Say Parents Have No Right to Control Sex
Ed of Kids
U.S.
elites decided last month that American parents have no
"fundamental right" to control or oversee the
sex education of their children. That's the result of a
decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to review an appeals
court ruling that dismissed a suit filed by parents against
a school district in California.
The parents had complained that their basic rights were
violated by California's Palmdale School District when it
compelled school children to answer invasive questionnaires
about their personal sexual thoughts and habits. The parents
said they had the sole right "to control the upbringing
of their children by introducing them to matters of and
relating to sex."
But the notoriously dictatorial 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled that parents of public school children had
no "fundamental right" to be the exclusive provider
of sexual education to the their own children. The district,
north of Los Angeles, had distributed a questionnaire in
2002 to students in the first, third, and fifth grades asking
them how often they thought about sex, among other personal
questions that violated the children's privacy.
The parents appealed the case after the suit was dismissed
by the left-wing 9th circuit. The Supreme Court declined
to hear the parents' appeal.
The
court's failure to hear the parents' appeal means that government
officials can invade the privacy of school children without
prior parental permission.
In
the Palmdale case, students were asked to respond to questions
by circling one of four possible choices, "never,"
"sometimes," "lots of time" or "almost
all of the time."
Students
were asked if they were concerned about any of the following
thoughts, among many others:
"Feeling
afraid something bad might happen";
"Wanting
to say dirty words";
"Feeling
lonely';
"Touching
my private parts too much';
"Thinking
about having sex';
"Thinking
about sex when I don't want to";
"Feeling
scared of men'';
"Feeling
scared of women."
