A government school system takeover of parenting? Welcome to the 21st century! In 2005 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Fields v. Palmdale School District that parents who send their children to public schools have no right to decide what topics are not appropriate for their children.

“When parents of schoolchildren in Palmdale, California learned from their sons and daughters that they had been questioned in their public elementary school about sexual topics such as the frequency of “thinking about having sex” and “thinking about touching other peoples’ private parts,” some of them exercised their constitutional right to take their grievance to the courts. The questioning was part of a survey the Palmdale School District was conducting regarding psychological barriers to learning.” (quoting from the judicial decison)

Such invasive and inappropriate questioning of children was so outrageous parents took this to court, only to be told by the Court of Appeals:

In summary, we hold that there is no free-standing fundamental right of parents “to control the upbringing of their children by introducing them to matters of and relating to sex in accordance with their personal and religious values and beliefs” and that the asserted right is not encompassed by any other fundamental right. In doing so, we do not quarrel with the parents’ right to inform and advise their children about the subject of sex as they see fit. We conclude only that the parents are possessed of no constitutional right to prevent the public schools from providing information on that subject to their students in any forum or manner they select. We further hold that a psychological survey is a reasonable state action pursuant to legitimate educational as well as health and welfare interests of the state. (again, quoting from the judicial decison)

This prompted today’s HSLDA posting at ParentalRights.Org, Parents of 50 Million to Lose Parental Rights – meaning that as soon as their children cross the school threshold each day, parental rights are suspended in favor of government-paid educator’s rights.

Are you okay with that? I expect that most people reading this site are already homeschoolers, and we will all agree that we’d like to make decisions about educational curriculum ourselves without letting perverts have access to our children for early-sexualization lessons. Public schools have become cesspools of inappropriate information, even teaching about homosexuality to kindergarten students, promoting it as a perfectly fine choice. It is clear that most *parents* are not homosexual and would not agree that their children should be taught this lesson so early in life. Others are products of the brainwashing system and totally okay with that.

But this is not an article about sexual issues – my focus is on the need for homeschooling and the infringement of governments on parental rights. There is no doubt that the more oppressive and intrusive government is, there will be more pressure on the part of families to regain rights. Total government control cannot happen, though the dark forces of the earth are trying to subjugate us. With their underhanded tactics of poisoning the tap water to pacify us, and abrogating the Tenth Amendment, the US federal government has gone a great distance toward forcing our compliance with their evil intentions. Welcome, Nineteen Eighty-Four, a few years late!

These conditions will not last forever as the oppressors will, by virtue of their innate characteristics, tear their system apart from the inside. They will turn against each other; we will see their evil empire destroyed. In the meantime, we must hold onto our parental and homeschooling rights as much as possible, as long as we can.

The family has been a target for decades – read Communist Goals (1963) – especially items 40 and 41. These goals are almost all complete; we Americans have been taken over by a foreign plan to destroy our country from within. However our Constitution is not completely gone, and so long as we’ve got it, there’s still hope to save this country.

We are the ones who must work to protect the well-being of our children, and their future. Though it may appear that the collapse of our way of life may be imminent, we must hold in our minds the vision of the evil doers destroying one another and thereby losing their hold on us.

We will be free, that’s a given.