parents vs schools

 She really nails it.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1512123736408924166.html

The arguments about sex education and book banning and home schooling and CRT and teaching about sexuality and gender identity and curriculum transparency all boil down to this fundamental question: who has the ultimate authority and control over children, parents or the State? 

I would venture to say that the majority of parents believe that they have authority and control over their children's lives. The children are their children and they are responsible for teaching the children and caring for the children and providing for the children. 

Educating children is outsourced to schools due to practicalities. Even those who send their children to religious schools do so because they want to insure their children are brought up with certain beliefs and the parents do not have the time/ability to home school. 

Teachers and school administrators are, in the end, employees of the parents. They exist to provide a service, education, and not to take over the responsibility for the parents. They are there as, at most, an adjunct to how the child is raised, not the primary source of rearing. 

In contrast, the education establishment, by and large, sees itself as being the primary, to say nothing of the highest and best, source of training and imputation of moral values for children. Parents are, at most, ancillary figures to be used to buttress views, if needed. 

It is the State, vis a vis the education department, who has the most important role to deliver in training children how to be proper citizens. It is the State that guides the children, molds their minds, and, in many cases, provides physical care, including meals to the children