I'm not going to lie, I don't think "parent's rights" should be a thing when it comes to topics of education. I don't think parents should have the right to prevent their child from learning essential information about their bodies. I don't think you should be allowed to opt your child out of accurate history lessons. I don't think you should be allowed to opt your child out of learning about people that actually exist or events that actually happened. I don't think religion is an excuse to opt out of these things either. Your religion is not an excuse to hinder a child from interacting with the world. If you refuse a child knowledge about people that actually exist with the explicit purpose of encouraging them to treating those people like shit, I don't think that's a right you should have. I don't think parents should have the right to raise their children to be shitty humans. I don't think "parent's rights" outweigh the child's right to have a healthy body and a well-rounded education. I don't think "parent's rights" should ever be allowed to hinder a child in relating to the actual world.
More than that, I don't think your rights as a parent outweighs your responsibility to the rest of the world. Whether Americans, in our hyper-individualistic country, want to admit it or not, we actually do have a responsibility to one another to raise good children, look out for public health, and create a society where different people can live together effectively.
