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Congress must act to protect parents' rights. (children's education)

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From: Insight on the News
Date: 19960520
Author:Shokraii, Nina

Parents' rights is the subject of proposed federal legislation that would protect the fundamental rights of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children. Parents' objections over certain mandatory public-school programs is the basis of one potential far-reaching lawsuit.

North Carolina parent John Reinhard is suing his school district for requiring his son, John, to "volunteer" 50 hours of community service prior to graduating from high school. When asked how he possibly could oppose a goal so noble as service to one's community, he replied, "As Ambrose Bierce once ...

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