Thursday, July 28, 2022

SCOTUS: "Parents Have Rights"!!

As various Wisconsin school districts implement CRT and LBGTQXYZ educational programs, parents will be bringing lawsuits.

And based on SCOTUS precedent, it's likely that parents will prevail (despite Brian Hagedorn, Scott Walker's 'Government Man' on the WI Supreme Court.)

...parental rights fit squarely within the “deeply rooted” standard. The Supreme Court recognized that parents’ rights were constitutionally sacrosanct nearly a century ago, in Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) and Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925). Both decisions were written by Justice James McReynolds, and both dealt with a vast intrusion of government power into traditionally private matters driven by the World War I-era push for a domestic monoculture to serve the nation’s wartime exigencies.

In Meyer, the justices addressed a Nebraska law that proscribed classroom instruction in German, Italian, French, Spanish and other modern languages, which were deemed to have a divisive effect on the young. The Oregon law in Pierce was even more drastic in supplanting parental authority over their children’s education: The law banned virtually all private education through the eighth grade.
In Meyer, decided by a 7-2 majority, McReynolds compared the Nebraska law with the military indoctrination of male youth that was characteristic of ancient Sparta but entirely out of place with American self-government. In an apt rejoinder to today’s antiparent ideologies, the court in Pierce unanimously concluded that the constitutional order presupposed a sphere of liberty protecting the relationship between parents and their child: “The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.”

In the ensuing decades, the high court reiterated the fundamental status of parental rights. In May v. Anderson (1953), the justices noted that a mother’s right to the “care, custody, management and companionship of her minor children” is an interest “far more precious” than any property right. In Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972), they concluded that parental rights are firmly rooted in the “history and culture of Western civilization” and “established beyond debate.”...

Even Hagedorn can't ignore Yoder, right?

So--to that Educrat who declared that 'all your children are ours,'--go to Hell.

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