One of parents’ most important duties is to protect theirchildren from harmful sexual values and behaviors. Yet manypublic schools force potentially harmful, sometimes shockinglyexplicit sex education on their students.Most of the time, parents have no control over the content ofthese classes. Occasionally, a group of parents finds out abouta particularly obnoxious sex education class and protests to theprincipal or local school board. The class may be dropped, onlyto be replaced by another class that teaches equallyobjectionable material.School authorities’ cavalier attitude towards parents on thisissue shows their anti-parent bias, and their contempt forparents’ rights to control the values their children are taught.Many school authorities insist that children need comprehensivesex education from kindergarten through high school. Theybelieve parents can’t be trusted because they have shamefulfeelings about sex or have ‘outdated’ moral or sexual values.School authorit…