Another Reply to Harvard on Parental Rights

Three weeks ago, I wrote to tell you what Harvard’s Elizabeth Bartholet got wrong about us— and about you — when she attacked homeschooling in an Arizona Law Review article and in Harvard Magazine .

Bartholet confused our stance that parental rights are fundamental, which is in keeping with 95 years of Supreme Court precedent, with the extremist notion that they are absolute — a position we have never held or espoused.

This week, Mike Smith, a member of the board of Parental Rights Foundation and the president of the Home School Legal Defense Association, posted his answer to the same charge over at HSLDA’s site. Not surprisingly, he makes several of the same points I made a few weeks ago, but he adds a bit more to the discussion, too.

So let me encourage you to check out Mike’s article here.

Thank you for standing with us for fundamental—not absolute—parental rights.

Sincerely,

Michael Ramey

Executive Director