Tag: PARENTAL RIGHTS

Critics of school choice are always quick to point out the “dismantling” of public education that comes with newer educational models. Often lost in this outcry is the fact that thousands of Alabama students feel trapped in a system that may not serve them best. 

The policies allowing schools to transition children without telling parents are almost over. They’re about to be deader than disco. Things aren’t there yet, but based on this opinion, we have every reason to believe they will be.

The First Amendment protects free expression, but does not guarantee unrestricted access for minors. For more than half a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed that protecting children from harmful or obscene content is not only permissible but also a compelling government interest.

When a teachers’ union compares its relationship with conservatives to Donald Trump’s diplomacy with Kim Jong Un, you know Alabama politics are shifting in strange ways.

Three leading homeschool organizations in Alabama are thanking Alabama Republican Party chairman John Wahl for not just taking the initiative to reach out to the Alabama Education Association but for making that conversation public knowledge.

Alabama parents need to wake up. We were promised opt-in protections – not workarounds, not footnotes, not policy tricks. And certainly not a counseling model that embeds ideology under the cover of state standards.

Attorney General Steve Marshall is continuing his advocacy to protect children and families, joining a 22-state coalition that filed a brief in the U.S Supreme Court supporting parental rights.

Let us hold the education system accountable, because they are ultimately accountable to the parents. In the last decade, they have become drunk with power. It’s high time we sober them up.

As we celebrate the Fourth of July, let’s never forget that true liberty means families, not government, must have the ultimate say in shaping their children’s moral education. If we lose that, we lose the heart of our nation.

Parents who send their children to public schools should press on, confident that they and their children do not shed their free exercise rights at the schoolhouse gate.

Last Saturday, hundreds of Alabama parents, grandparents, and freedom-loving citizens packed into a standing-room-only event for one clear purpose: to speak truth and defend our children.

According to a press release by Moms for Liberty Madison County Chair Emily Jones, State Sen. Arthur Orr, Rep. Parker Moore and State Rep. Ernie Yarbrough all celebrated the month by signing a pledge to support parents' rights.

Make no mistake: This Alabama Library War must be fought and won locally, or the decision may well be taken out of our hands.

The shelves that many of us roamed as children no longer contain wholesome stories; instead, they often contain pornographic and sexual deviant material that many teachers, librarians, and public figures think children should have the right to see.

Giving what is now known as “gender affirming care” to minors is as harmful as chopping their arm off because you found a freckle that you are convinced will one day be cancer.

May a school transition a child and not inform the parent?

Parents, educators and students alike have celebrated President Donald Trump’s efforts to protect students from the radical gender and racial ideology that has become commonplace in many classrooms. The state legislature is expected to take up a bill soon to protect Alabama classrooms by mirroring Trump’s executive orders.

Our state needs strong leadership that reflects our values, not political maneuvering that compromises on the well-being of our children.

You do not have a right to an education. But parents have a right and duty to educate their children. And children have a right to be educated by their parents.

The issue of parental rights is one of the greatest of our political time, for the line between the duties of the state and the duties of parents in relation to children is increasingly blurred.

The Alabama House Judiciary Committee advanced legislation on Thursday that would require parental consent before administering vaccines to minors.

Children in every state of the United States deserve educational freedom, particularly when it comes to homeschooling.

State Rep. Patrick Sellers (D-Pleasant Grove) has pre-filed a bill for the upcoming 2025 legislative session that would give men in Alabama who voluntarily acknowledge they fathered a child out of wedlock all the legal rights and duties of a parent.

For the third year in a row, legislation requiring parental consent for the administration of vaccines has been re-filed in the Alabama House of Representatives for the 2025 session.

While Harris/Walz spin their campaign as “joy,” wanting to be “Momala” and “Dad Walz,” it would be a grave mistake to lean on the government in this way.

Every once in a while the culture is defined by the strength of a group of people. This is such a time.

Let’s stop funding systems and start empowering parents. Let’s start putting students first.