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Honey, we lost the parents
Democrats have lost their edge with parents of school-aged children.
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 17, 20242 min read
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CA schools chief ejected from board meeting on parents' rights
Parents should be told if their child is involved in violence at school, expresses suicidal thoughts or identifies as transgender, a...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 23, 20232 min read
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If Moms for Liberty ain't happy, ain't nobody happy
The slogan "We don't co-parent with the government" has mobilized "an enormous and growing" number of Americans, writes Robert Pondiscio,...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 17, 20233 min read
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Good Book or bad book? Bible is challenged in Utah
The Bible is off the shelves at elementary and middle-school libraries in a suburban Utah district, after a parent's complaint, writes...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 3, 20231 min read
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The horrors of Christian homeschooling, as told by secularists
Christian homeschoolers are Bible-thumping, child-beating isolationists who hope their numerous children will take over America,...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 2, 20232 min read
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If Mia becomes Mike, parents want to know
If Jayden was cutting school, failing classes and getting in fights, he might not want his parents to know. But his teacher wouldn't keep...
Joanne Jacobs
May 28, 20232 min read
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'Our nation's children are all our children'
"There's no such thing as someone else's child," said President Joe Biden in honoring the new Teacher of the Year, an Oklahoma math...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 27, 20232 min read
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'Lazy' parents want librarians, teachers to protect their kids
"Parental rights" advocates have a"dirty secret," charges Alyssa Rosenberg in the Washington Post. They're too lazy to teach their kids...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 19, 20232 min read
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Without the jargon, 'social-emotional learning' means ...
Social-emotional learning means "teaching kids to be nice to one another and to be nice to themselves," Liz Mikitarian, a retired...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 4, 20233 min read
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Sneering at parents isn't a great political strategy
"Seething contempt for the idea that parents should get a say in their children's education is really not a great political strategy,"...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 15, 20232 min read
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Choice lets parents find a school that respects their rights
"Families should not be stuck in an education system that actively undermines parental rights and ideologically grooms children, argues...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 25, 20231 min read
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Parents feel 'villainized' by teachers who think they know best
It's not just conservative parents who think they have a right to know if "Hannah" has become "Hank" at school, reports Katie J.M. Baker...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 25, 20233 min read
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No tattoos for kids -- sex-change drugs are OK
A New York woman was arrested for letting her 10-year-old son get a tattoo, reports the New York Times. State law bans tattoos for...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 16, 20221 min read
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