A New Mexico School Boards Association instructor sees no role for parents in guiding their children’s public school education.
On Tuesday, the parental rights group “Freedom Families United” published audio tape of a New Mexican school board administrator speaking to members of local school boards.
“Parents do not have a fundamental right to tell you how public school teaches their child,” New Mexico School Boards Association Trainer Andrew Sanchez said in December. “Parental rights end when you decide to send your kids to public school. What you teach this generation that will soon be voting are going to be instrumental to the future of us as a democracy and as society goes forward.”
The New Mexico School Boards Association did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.
Sanchez also mocked parents concerned about excessive wokeness in the classroom, and claimed teachers in Florida “don’t even teach the Civil War anymore.”
A quick examination of Florida’s K-12 standards, however, shows educators are required to teach their students about the Civil War and Reconstruction.
“Teachers” in New Mexico, Sanchez said, “will talk about Black Lives Matter. They have to.”
“If you [school boards] engage in a policy which you’re going to actually create parental rights where none should or don’t exist,” Sanchez said, “or you’re [school boards] going to create opt-out policies so that people [parents] can opt out of certain ideas in the curriculum, there will be nothing to teach the kids.”
Sanchez suggested parents uncomfortable with
