PARENT RIGHTS VERSUS PUBLIC SCHOOL CONTROL

PARENT RIGHTS VERSUS PUBLIC SCHOOL CONTROL

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

On October 31, 2019, the Houston ISD, Independent School District, unanimously passed radical sex education for 3^rd through 8^th grade students. Most parents voiced their emphatic religious and cultural objections to the plan. Yet there was not one board member who voted against this sex education agenda. It openly demonstrates the will of the parents was insignificant as compared to the power of the educational establishment. Parents have in effect been ousted from the primary right and responsibility to teach their children moral values.

In 2014 the Austin ISD board rejected a sex education proposal. The parents fought to adopt an “abstinence-only” birth control policy. Over the next years the school board internal politics changed to support and assist the expanding acceptance of LGBTQ students in the school environment. This progressive policy was not only for school approval but also overall cultural change. This reversal was coming from the top of the bureaucracy, not from the grass roots. The public school is dedicating itself to be a societal change agent not educating academic skills and rational thought.

They have passed this new sex education curriculum, which is an affront to biblical teachings in Christianity, Judaism, Islam and anyone who has studied mental health issues. Just because the person “feels” a certain way does not make it real. Just because an individual “feels” like a lizard, it does not make him one. A young adolescent going through hormonal and sexual changes is often confused making them think they are different than their birth gender.  One’s feelings that are the opposite of reality until very recently were an indication of insanity. Changing reality to increase the acceptance of disturbed youths instead of treating them contributes to their insanity.

The Houston Independent School District teaching anal sex through a pornographic film has no legitimate justification for this biblically perverted act. Teaching an underage person how to role-play to hide their deviant lesbian relationship with a 17-year-old seducer from their parents is inappropriate for a school. This is undermining parental authority for the purpose of promoting a radical sexual agenda.

Government schools have no right to even consider teaching this kind of information to children. The shrewd way the education elite bureaucrats have gotten around parental objections is by saying they can opt out of the curriculum.

Parents are not sending their children to school to be indoctrinated in progressive sexual behaviors that alter traditional societal moral norms. These educators knowingly or not are ushering in a Sodom and Gomorra-like chaotic world. This focus on self-gratifying sexual activities will weaken and obliterate the industrious fiber of the nation.  It will lead us down the path of internal moral decay. Eventually we will have to surrender to a totalitarian government without the support and assistance coming from strong family loyalties.

Public schools were established to educate children to become literate citizens. The education was to give them the ability to develop reading, writing and math skills to be able to learn on their own.  It was not supposed to brainwash them to adopt self-destructive moral values. All non-academic learning was left to the parents. They made the choices to develop the child’s character. The freedom of parents to be responsible for their children, not the state has been effective in molding strong, productive and law-abiding citizens. Ever since the government has interfered with the sanctity of the family, our societal problems have increased.

Moral, value, spiritual, nutritional, and physical development of our children should be left to the family. Our government schools have done a pathetic job even teaching students simple reading, writing and math. Parents should not allow government education to destroy the moral character of their children by presenting age inappropriate ideas, socially inaccurate information to our youngsters. This is simple indoctrination.

Government schools are dysfunctional and should be stopped from poorly performing the services that used to be done by the family. They should be held to higher academic standards and leave moral values to the church and the family.

Local public schools should be removed from the state bureaucrats and returned to the local community. The number of state educational bureaucrats should be reduced significantly, and schools decentralized for more parental control. The parents will have a strong impact on every facet of the school that will reflect their wishes and needs.

Let us rid our public schools of socially radical elites whose purpose is to undermine and transform our country into a weak, immoral one that collapses from within. Parents’ strong voice will strengthen and save our children and our nation from evil forces.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN and a new book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING in a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.