Meeting Scheduled to Defend Parental Rights on Vaccinations

Dear Champion of Parental Rights in Connecticut, In recent months, bills have been passed or introduced in several states, including California, New York, and North Carolina, that would remove all exemptions from the government-mandated vaccination schedule except in a few specific medical cases. This removes from parents the fundamental right to make the best informed…

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When the Sign Says "No Parents Allowed"

HIPPA Sign

[Updated 6/6/17] Perhaps this has happened to you. You walk into the doctor’s or the dentist’s office and you find a sign like the one shown at right. “Parents: Due to new HIPAA and OSHA regulations you are not permitted beyond this point!” What can you do? And what should you do? For many, the…

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Common Core: The "State-Led" Myth

Common Core

Since its introduction in 2008, the Common Core State Standards Initiative, or “Common Core” (CCSSI) has been touted as a “voluntary, state led” initiative to adopt a common set of academic standards for all states in the country. As it turns out, the development of Common Core was not state-led, and participation, while technically voluntary,…

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National Database of School Children Launched

National Database of School Children Launched

[Updated 6/6/17] Last week the SXSWedu Technology Conference in Austin, Texas, featured a new project that has many educational technology companies very excited – and that has many parents angry and deeply concerned. The project is called inBloom – a massive national database of personal information on public school students – and it is already…

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Your Pediatrician and Your Parental Rights

By now, the experience can only be called “commonplace.” You take your child to the doctor for a rash or a sore throat, and the next thing you know your child is fielding some unrelated questions: “Is there a gun in your home? Do you usually wear a seatbelt when riding in the car? What’s…

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Why Are Schools Banning Mom and Dad?

Mom at School

© istockphoto/IsaacLKoval [Updated 6/6/17] When we were in school, several parents were there on a regular basis helping out in the classroom or the library, chaperoning field trips, or leading special reading or art programs. They were just doing their part to improve our education. But parents are not allowed in public schools today. Sure,…

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Parents of 50 Million U.S. Children Soon to Lose Parental Rights

No Parents Allowed

[Updated 6/6/17] If your children attend public school, you are among those parents whose rights will end the moment your child enters the school. That’s because in 2005 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found in Fields v. Palmdale School District “that the Meyer-Pierce right [of parents to direct the upbringing of their children] does…

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