Parental Rights and Responsibilities
Know your rights and responsibilities within the school, the district and the government.
Schools are lying to parents about their legal rights and what is happening to their kids.
Schools are keeping two sets records on kids, one for parents and one to hide from parents.
You must be armed with the truth in law and natural rights.
Legal, Parental Rights
In 2022, new government policies are threatening parental rights. Schools are indoctrinating
students into divisive ideologies that subject them to unequal treatment because of their race,
ethnicity, religion, and other characteristics. Schools are also promoting a destructive gender
ideology and even keeping students’ mental health struggles secret from their parents. Medical
institutions are performing experimental procedures on minors who experience a sense of
disconnection between their bodily sex and internal sense of gender.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has worked on parental rights for more than
two decades. In response to the growing threats, ADF created a Center for Parental
Rights that litigates precedent-setting cases to protect parental rights. ADF also has
a Center for Legislative Advocacy that creates legislation to protect parental rights
in the states and in Congress.
ADF Quick Stats
Half of all Americans (50%) say “parents of school-aged children should have a role in
deciding what is taught in public schools,” while only 33% say that teachers and education
experts should decide.
Half (50%) also believe “we should have school choice programs which allow parents to use
some of the money that government would spend to educate their child in traditional public
school to send them to the public, private, or charter school of their choosing,” while
only 36% say we should focus on public schools.
Parents and allies standing together. Millions of voices speaking as one. Stop messing with our kids. It ends here.
We are an advocacy organization promoting the rights of parents within our public schools.
We train & support parents & their allies to effectively reform our education system to protect
our children. We support the role of education in teaching core skills and reject the dangerous
obsession to force extreme sexualization and racist doctrine on our children. We are not
interested in education usurping our rights as parents and undermining our family roles within
our community.
What The Law Says
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that affords parents
the right to have access to their children’s education records, the right to seek to have the
records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of personally
identifiable information from the education records.
When a student turns 18 years old, or enters a postsecondary institution at any age, the
rights under FERPA transfer from the parents to the student (“eligible student”).
The FERPA statute is found at 20 U.S.C. § 1232g and the FERPA regulations are found at 34 CFR Part 99.
Educating children is one of society's most important functions. As a result, there is a robust
area of law dedicated to education policy, special education, and other legal issues with regard
to the education system.
Ensuring each child receives a proper education while maintaining a parent's right to decide
what their child should learn; the balance between maintaining student safety, while respecting
individual constitutional rights.
Learn about the state of parental rights in your state.
Actively monitoring state legislation,
Helping to introduce and pass legislation that will protect children,
Fighting against potentially harmful legislation,
Keeping concerned parents informed of legislation in their state.
There are also many states that make laws available on the state legislation sites.
Just do a search for laws and regulations on your school district.
Wise Words
Let’s raise children who don’t have to recover from their childhood.
~Pam Leo
