When education personnel violate parent-child rights: what is happening, what to do, legal action — a four-part video series and supplemental documents

Suggestions for legal action when education personnel violate parent-child rights. This work is to give evidence and analysis to support legal action with ‘how to’ suggestion. The tone is related to that goal. 

PART 1

Part 1 of 4 gives the big picture history of the rising conflict between parents and schools: defamilialization, discrimination, and power imbalance.

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PART 2

Part 2 of 4  covers ‘What is happening in schools and what changed?’ It reviews the causes of current school conflict: changed laws, government decisions, legal cases.

PART 3

Part 3 of 4 give suggestions on how to make a complaint and take legal action. Learn the details of how to make a complaint that could lead to legal action through the District system or through the professional regulatory system.

PART 4

Part 4 of 4 reviews of parent-child rights protected in international human rights agreements, the Charter, and human rights codes.

Supplemental documents

1. Report form & checklist for challenging learning resources & decisions of education personnel
2. Parental authority in international law. These documents are very useful as they bring together the international human rights agreements related to parental authority in education. 
   •   Supplement to the Declaration on the Authority of Parents and Guardians in their Children’s Education – cites the International Agreements with quotes
   • Declaration on the Authority of Parents and Guardians in their Children’s Education