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How to Request Records From Your School District and Actually Get Them State open records laws reach school districts. How to write a request that works: deadlines, fees, appeals and student-privacy limits. Free-Range Kids and the Law, Why Letting Children Roam Became Suspect Letting a child walk to the park used to be normal; vague neglect laws made it risky until states rewrote them. Here is how, and why it matters. Social-Emotional Learning, What It Was Meant to Be and What It Became Teaching children self-control and kindness is old wisdom, but some SEL programs became surveys of private feelings that parents never saw. Who Decides Gender Policy for Minors? The Case for the Legislatures After United States v. Skrmetti in 2025, who sets policy on gender treatments for minors? The argument that elected legislatures should, and the best answer. What the Long School Closures of 2020 and 2021 Taught Parents The closures showed parents who really decides when schools open, and many of them never trusted the system the same way again. Homeschooling Went From Legal Gray Zone to Legal in Fifty States by 1993 In the 1970s a homeschooling parent could be prosecuted for truancy. By 1993 every state recognized the right, thanks to ordinary families, not Washington. Should Schools Tell Parents? The Case for Notification Policies When a school treats a child differently over name and identity, parents are owed notice. The law, the tradition, the safety objection answered with care. Curriculum Transparency Laws, What They Require and Why They Help Teachers A curriculum transparency law asks schools to post what they teach. Here is what bills require, the objections answered, and how to use one well. Mahmoud v. Taylor and the Storybooks That Brought Opt-Outs Back to School In Mahmoud v. Taylor the Court held that refusing an opt-out from storybook lessons burdened parents' free exercise, reviving Yoder. Wisconsin v. Yoder and the Amish Fathers Who Stopped School at Eighth Grade Yoder held that the Free Exercise Clause shielded Amish families from schooling past eighth grade, and its reach and limits still matter to parents. The 1922 Oregon Law That Tried to Abolish Private Schools, and Lost Pierce v. Society of Sisters struck down Oregon's 1922 ban on private schooling, and its logic still protects a parent's right to direct a child's upbringing.