Parents were shocked when a public high school in Candler, North Carolina, invited a local abortion clinic to lecture a sophomore biology class on sex education and contraception without the consent of parents.
"Right away, the home was forgotten. All authority of parents was dismembered. The child became a business customer for the abortion clinic," said one enraged father who attended the lecture. "The woman speaking regarded the home as nonexistent. Father and mother were dead, as far as respect to us."
The year? It was 1984, but it could just as easily have been 2023.
Parents of Generation Z, meet parents of Generation X. Today’s parents’ rights movement demonstrates that little has changed in the public school wars since the days of Ronald Reagan.