Americans are embroiled in conflicts over parental rights.
On one side are progressives who believe their job nay, their sacred duty is to expose American public school students as young as kindergarten to diverse content on sexuality, gender and race.
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BETHANY MANDEL is a co-author of Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation.
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