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Introducing ParentalRights.org's New President
“Let’s get Jim Mason in here to discuss this.” In the eight years I’ve served at ParentalRights.org, I don’t know how many times a discussion on strategy or legal language included Mike Farris saying those words. In a meeting of the ParentalRights.org board on January 9, it’s as though Mike made the suggestion one more…
Read MoreParentalRights.org to Continue Farris Legacy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE // January 10, 2017 // Purcellville, VA – This afternoon ParentalRights.org founder Michael Farris announced he is stepping down as president of the national organization promoting the Parental Rights Amendment. Farris is concurrently leaving his 30-year employment with the Homeschool Legal Defense Association to accept a position as president, CEO, and General…
Read MoreFarris: Parental Rights Still Under Fire in California
California is at it again. Last year, California passed the notorious SB 277, removing all non-medical vaccination exemptions, and undermining the fundamental right of parents to direct the medical care of their children. Apparently, that was not enough. SB18, filed in December, would plot a dangerous new course for the legislature regarding parental rights. The…
Read MoreWhen the Sign Says "No Parents Allowed"
[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…
Read MoreCommon Core: The "State-Led" Myth
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,…
Read MoreNational 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…
Read MoreYour 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…
Read MoreWhy Are Schools Banning Mom and Dad?
© 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,…
Read MoreParents of 50 Million U.S. Children Soon to Lose Parental Rights
[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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