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Fast Takes: Parents should know their rights, left’s trans extremism hobbles Dems and more

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Ed desk: Parents, Know Your Rights!

“If you have school-age children, you may be worrying about what your kids will be exposed to when class resumes,” notes Ian Prior at The Wall Street Journal.

From “preferred pronouns” to girls “forced to share a locker room with boys,” these “real dangers” form “the subject of school board battles, federal investigations and lawsuits across the country.”

But “parents are no longer powerless” thanks to recent SCOTUS decisions and the Trump White House: They “have the right to opt out” of gender propaganda, “the right to their children’s records” and the right to review curricula.

Title XIV protects “sex-separated spaces” — “but legal rights mean little if parents don’t exercise them. As students return to school this fall, parents should know” how much power they have. 

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