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The Attala County Courthouse in Kosciusko, Mississippi, a red brick building with tall white columns and a green domed clock tower

parental rightsJul 5, 20266 min read

A Mississippi School Strip-Searched Seven Boys and Found Nothing

A vape detector beeped in a boys' bathroom at a Mississippi school. Because of that alarm, seven boys were ordered to strip. Nothing was found. A school can borrow your authority to teach your child. It never receives dominion over his body.

By Tabby Parker

The Sunnyvale School District Administrative building, with the district name on its exterior wall, framed by purple flowers and trees

parental rightsJun 29, 20263 min read

Sunnyvale Gave These Parents an Opt-Out From Its Gender Lessons, Then Took It Back

Two Sunnyvale parents asked to keep their first and third graders out of lessons on gender and sexuality that clash with their faith. The district agreed, then reversed itself and called the lessons "not optional." Why an opt-out was never the real victory.

By Tabby Parker

An Upper West Side, Manhattan street scene with residential apartment towers, storefronts, a street tree, and traffic signals under a blue sky.

parental rightsJun 24, 20266 min read

New York Elementary School Made Fifth Graders Rehearse Being Shot by Police

On Multicultural Day, fifth graders at P.S. 75 on the Upper West Side mimed being shot by police and held adults' political signs. The deepest harm was not that parents got no notice. It was what the stage rehearsed into a ten-year-old's heart.

By Tabby Parker