Debates about parental rights in education have recently spread from local school-board meetings to the upper levels of politics and business. President Biden recently touted the idea that “our nation’s children are all our children,” while Twitter chairman Elon Musk has maintained that “our kids are not fodder for the government.”
Such conflicts have arisen before and are unavoidable: They are features of life in a community. From the very inception of American common education, parents have struggled with the state over its purpose and the government’s role in character formation and classroom instruction.
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