Pulled this and some comments off of DCF ...

Court says parents not sole providers of kids' sex education

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit by elementary school parents who were outraged that the Palmdale School District had surveyed students about sex.

While the surveys asked students how often they thought about sex, among other questions, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday that parents of public school children have no "fundamental right" to be the exclusive provider of sexual information to their children.

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Parents whose students took the survey signed consent forms, however the forms never mentioned sex would be a topic. Questions the children answered included whether they thought about having sex, thought about touching other people's "private parts" and whether they could "stop thinking about having sex."

About which VegMom wrote:

I don't understand the type of mental process that allows someone to believe that the government is better equipped to raise children than their own parents.

Sadly, I think I do. The idea is that parents are a bunch of wackos, especially homeschool parents. This is evidenced by the recent story on the Nazi "Olsen" twins and that guy who raised his daughter in a cave in Washington state. For a second I entertained the thought that we as homeschoolers must do something about this fringe in order to give better credibility to our movement but alas after discussions with more rational folks than myself I came to realize that wackos are part of the price we pay for freedom. That, and I couldn't think of a good solution that either didn't infringe on everyones right to raise their own children or that didn't place some arbitrary and unfair "standards" on the majority of parents who are well suited to raise and educate their children. From a comment my BIL made on my blog

The question of the parents who shouldn't be homeschooling is the same as the question of those parents who shouldn't be raising kids. If you argue against homeschooling because some few parents are violently unsuited to it, you also have to argue against parenting because some people are violently unsuited to it -- and what do you do then? Raise all kids in daycare using licenced child-raising experts?

Of course, as you know, some people want to go to that extreme. WE ARE NOT SUITED TO BE PARENTS MUCH LESS EDUCATORS ... or so they would say.

I would think that the public school system ideally should be held accountable by the client -- or parents (voters) -- but that isn't what happens. It is manipulated by the elite for their own means. This ruling about solidifies my opinion that this is what is happening.

We might as well cut the whole process short and fix the standard of accountability yourself. Educate your own children.