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Rutland ~ Vermonters for Vermont Initiative, a statewide educational platform will host a press event on “Parents’ Rights in Education” on Wednesday, 9 April 2025, starting at 12 noon to 1pm in the Cedar Creek Room at the Vermont State Capitol State Street Montpelier, Vermont.
There will be information at the event on parents’ rights, including the reading of the “Parents’ Rights In Education” resolution authored by Vermonters for Vermont Initiative, and parental involvement in Vermont public schools and in the classrooms, a petition to adopt the resolution, and several speakers on various topics discussing parental involvement.
The speakers for our event: Vermonters for Vermont Initiatives, Founder and Principal, Gregory Thayer; Rep. Michael Tagliavia, Orange 2; Martha Hafner, Advocates for Vermont; Rep. Mark Higley, Lamoille-Orleans; Senator Terry Williams, Rutland County; and John Klar, Author Farmer John Klar on Substanck.com. Marie Tiemann, President of SPEAK-VT will share some words. .
Parents have a Constitutional right to be part of their children’s education in public schools and upbringing. Parental awareness is of the utmost importance, yet that is not being supported now. It is time for us to take action. Our speakers will discuss these issues and how to make changes. First, we need to take our Parents’ Rights In Education resolution to your local schoolboard for passage, and for you to get involved in your students’ local schoolboard and school’s meetings. Every voice matters; make your voices heard!
Our event is open to the public, and we encourage you to join us and to bring a friend with you. For more information, please visit us on Facebook at Vermonters for Vermont or email us at V4V2018@aol.com.
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Re: ” First, we need to take our Parents’ Rights In Education resolution to your local schoolboard for passage, and for you to get involved in your students’ local schoolboard and school’s meetings.”
Been there. Done that. Got the T-shirt. Local school boards can be as totalitarian as the Vermont legislature. Please believe me. As a former school board member, I know that even the six parental-rights advocates listed above will disagree on what should or shouldn’t be taught in the classroom… even if they did know what it is.
And because one single school, public or independent, can’t possibly accommodate ever student’s needs, compelled conflict is inevitable.
“Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions [or hundreds]. One is central direction involving the use of coercion – the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary co-operation of individuals – the technique of the marketplace.” – Milton Friedman
Only in a voluntary educational ‘marketplace, where parents can choose the education programs they believe best meet the needs of their children, will ‘“Parents’ Rights in Education” be secure. And it’s strange, indeed, that the above promo doesn’t mention this prospect.
You see… we already disagree.
I , as a landowner and parent , have a right not to lose my home to educational bond debt. Creating a resolution is not solving this problem. What you do have a right is to pay for your own child education opportunity.
Mr. Day, et al.:
I am, fundamentally, a free-market libertarian (with a small ‘l’). But I’ve always put government funding of education on the same platform as government funded protection, be it military protection from enemies foreign and domestic, or a government funded judiciary system for the civilized redress of grievances that occur from time to time between me and my friends, neighbors and those with whom I choose to do business, including commensurate law enforcement.
But I’m beginning to change my opinion in this regard. Our private property rights are tantamount to our liberty and freedom. And private property rights are now under severe attack from those who see our private property as a threat to their collectivist sympathies.
It’s one thing to say, ‘live and let live’, as long as what you choose to do doesn’t harm others. On the other hand, we’ve now reached an existential despotic impasse. Being of libertarian sensibility is, in itself, now a threat to the collectivist. While libertarians agree to let collectivists do unto themselves whatever they choose, they, the collectivists, those who believe they know better than the rest of us, continue to attack – literally.
Be it in the forced attendance and financial support of a public-school monopoly, to mandated Covid vaccine mandates and universal healthcare, to the welfare state in general, political officials elected by a tyrannical majority are acting out in defiance of our constitutionally protected ‘God-given’ rights.
While I will continue to put forth hope above despair, and lobby for governmental common sense, I am now, more than ever, convinced that the only recourse against collectivist tyranny is to drop out of ‘the system’ and indulge in a ‘black market’ economy.
In education, there is, apparently, but one recourse. Non-government funded homeschooling. Government sanctioned School Choice is appearing, more and more, to be an oxymoronic proposition. And when the government seeks to make homeschool illegal and confiscate my property, the only recourse will be submission or rebellion.
Praemonitus praemunitus. Caveat emptor.
The fact that it is necessary to hold a rally to support a parent’s right to raise their own children in the manner that they see fit, is IMO a sad commentary on the state of socialism in this state. When the old saying “what is mine is mine, and what your’s is mine” is being applied to how children are raised, them’s fighten words, and rightfully so !