Please call your State Representatives before they vote on Wednesday, March 21st. Ask them to support the Parental Rights Amendment, CACR 31, and to Restore Local Control of Education, CACR 8.
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NH Families for Education is asking Legislators to oppose CACR 12. It Empowers the State Legislature, Undermines Local Control, and Tramples Parental Rights.
Rep. Paul Mirski warned the House on March 14th that the Senate revised language, which includes the word “responsibility,” makes Charter schools unconstitutional and mandates State curricula.
Ed Mosca advised Rep. JR Hoell that the Senate language, which includes the word “responsibility,” makes the recently passed HB 542 unconstitutional. Parents would no longer have the right to remove their child or “opt-out” of objectionable material in a public schools under CACR 12. Their rights of conscience will be overruled by CACR 12.
Even without the inclusion of the word “responsibility,” CACR 12 grants the Legislature “full power and authority” to mandate curricula, eliminate Local Control, and trample Parental Rights. It is absurd to believe that a Legislature with “full power and authority” would actually restrain itself and not exercise that power.
Given that CACR 12 is being seriously considered by this Legislature is causing many parents to become anxious and concerned. They believe a Parental Rights Amendment, CACR 31, is needed to protect and guarantee their right to direct and control the education of their children. It is unacceptable to compel a parent to send a child to public school where the State Legislature may mandate curricula in direct opposition to his conscientious beliefs.
Please vote against State Controlled Education in CACR 12.
Support the Parental Rights Amendment, CACR 31, and Restore Local Control of Education, CACR 8 .
“In New Hampshire the rights of parents over the family are considered “natural, essential and inherent rights within the meaning of the New Hampshire Constitution, Part I, Article 2.” In re Diana P., 120 N.H. 791, 798, 424 A.2d 178, 182 (1980).
“Thus parents enjoy a constitutionally protected right to raise their children as they see fit, unfettered by undue state intrusion.” State v. Robert H., 118 N.H. 713, 716, 393, A.2d 1387, 1389 (1978).