Document Type
Issue Area One
Abstract
Though parents don't own children like chattel, centuries of common law uphold parents' authority over their own children. But that authority is in unwitting conflict with government-controlled ownership of education. And the more centralized the state-run control, the greater the conflict.
As an author, I dialogue with parents from coast to coast through radio and public forums. Parents-some of them educators-say their authority is intact when they help with school bake sales or band-booster clubs. But their authority erodes when they are shut out of pre-curriculum decision making, and their post-curriculum challenges are labeled censorship. Parents don't blame their local teachers, but say special interest gatekeepers at the national level work to separate them from their children. Parents researching this trend say it began with educator John Dewey.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
2
First Page
11
Last Page
14
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1994 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Carlson, Jill M.
(1994)
"Parental Authority Versus Government Ownership of Education,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss2/6
