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'When you mess with our children, all other issues instantly become trivial. It is primal'

Progressives long ago took over teachers' unions and many school districts. They have their own ideologies and agendas, mostly far-left and extreme such as promoting the transgender segment of the LGBT lifestyle choices,, and fight parental rights in a multitude of ways.

They threaten catastrophes should moms and dads suddenly be assigned vouchers that would allow them to choose a private school over a public school. Parents, they charge, should not even necessarily be allowed to speak about the teachers' agendas, and have silenced them at school board meetings.

One radical, now former, school board member in Iowa claimed, "The purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want. It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client is not the parent, but the community."

And that agenda, if unchanged, according to a constitutional expert suddenly sharing his own feelings on the issue, will lead to a revolution of untold magnitude.

"Progressives' shock over the results of the last election could prove a prelude to what is coming if they continue down this road. There is no more powerful identity than that of a parent. When you mess with our children, all other issues instantly become trivial. It is not just passionate. It is primal," explained Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University.

He's considered a constitutional expert, having testified before Congress on the subject, having represented Congress in court on related issues, and much more. He's also a parent.

"Many politicians are terrified of defying the far-left teachers unions. They and these 'experts' have no inkling of what is coming," he said.

His comments were prompted by a wild decision from the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that parents don't have the right to know if a school is indoctrinating their child into a transgender lifestyle choice.

That, he said, "could become the defining issue for many in the coming years. It is also a type of cultural war over what many of us view as a natural right over the raising of our children."

The 1st Circuit case was brought by Marissa Silvestri and Stephen Foote against Baird Middle School in Ludlow, Mass., "after they learned that school administrators did not inform them that their 11-year-old child had self declared as 'genderqueer' and that teachers and staff were using a new name and new pronouns for the student."

That all was concealed from them. In fact, school employees secretly "arranged for changes in everything from the use of male bathrooms to the exclusive use of the child's new name in class," he reported.

"In a truly Orwellian line, the [appeals] judges declared, 'As per our understanding of Supreme Court precedent, our pluralistic society assigns those curricular and administrative decisions to the expertise of school officials, charged with the responsibility of educating children,'" Turley noted.

"Most of us must have missed that memo. Few would believe that sending our children to a public school means we have transferred the most fundamental parental rights to 'experts' on rearing our children. We understand that schools need to maintain certain standards and conduct. However, changing the gender of a child is a bit more weighty than requiring a school uniform or stipulating nutritional choices in school lunches," he said.

Further "The Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees citizens that no state shall 'deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.' There is no part of our lives more valuable to most of us than our children."

He shared, "I remember when we had our first child and were escorted out of the hospital by a nurse. After helping my wife to the car, I turned around and was handed a swaddled bundle with a baby inside. The nurse then walked away as I stood there in a moment of utter panic. We were given a small human being at the curbside with the level of preparation of a Starbucks latte. I stood there looking at my son Ben with the same level of confidence that I would have had if handed a small nuclear device and then tasked with defusing it. You soon realize that you are all in."

And that's the difference, he said.

"Our children had us at hello. The moment that bundle was put in my arms, I changed. I was a dad and all of the prior priorities in my life suddenly became irrelevant. No one told me at the hospital carport that he was ours until he is old enough to be turned over to the expertise of public school officials. The fact is, by the time our kids go to school, we are the experts of that child. While teachers clearly have important training and expertise, they do not know that child. Not really. They were not there to perform monster inspections at 3 a.m. or to wrestle with a goat who decided to eat his favorite blankie at a petting zoo. They do not know that look when he is panicked or that curious smile when he is near tears. These experts took Child Development 101. We have a Ph.D. in our kids, a developmental dissertation on late-night fevers, sibling fights and orthodontic bills."

He said the Foote case needs to be moved up to the U.S. Supreme Court, for a ruling on a trend among education industry personalities who are making parents more and more alarmed.

"Faced with declining educational achievement and rising social agendas, many families are leaving public schools and others are demanding school choice in the form of vouchers. At the same time, there is growing support for a Parents Bill of Rights. The Trump administration can work with Congress to condition federal funding on schools' respect for parental rights, even if the courts do not protect such rights," he said.

"There is no greater natural right than the right to control the upbringing of our children. This right was not granted to us by the grace of the state. It rests with us as human beings. It is part of a panoply of natural rights embraced by the framers − a commitment made nearly 250 years ago in our Declaration of Independence," he said.