Check out this scathing editorial about parental control given up when placing children in public schools. (Interestingly enough, our conservative friends over at Fark have categorized it with the “obvious” tag).

Any parent with a child in a public school has likely discovered our education system is little more than a means by which liberals indoctrinate children with socialist ideology.

If this seems a radical assertion, I assure you it is not. In fact, examples abound indicating its accuracy.

… some examples of his assertion … and then this bit of interesting info:

California schools have been barred from informing parents if their children leave school grounds “to receive certain confidential medical services that include abortion, AIDS treatment and psychological analysis, according to an opinion issued by the office of state Attorney General Bill Lockyer.”

Which means…

If California’s attorney general gets away with this absurd policy, your kid’s geometry teacher essentially has more right to know your child is pregnant — or has contracted HIV, or is potentially suicidal — than you do. And how is a “medical service” still confidential if someone other than a doctor and patient is aware of it?

In plain English, it isn’t. But this hasn’t stopped school officials and liberal lawyers from assuming they know better than parents what’s best for their own kids.

… and finally:

Public schools can’t even take students on field trips or hand out Tylenol without consent of a parent or guardian, but if they want to toss out condoms and, apparently, schedule abortions for teenagers, why, that’s just not our business.

If this doesn’t convince you that parents practically forfeit all control over their kids upon subjecting them to the draconian fancies of today’s state “education” facilities, nothing will.