This is not just an isolated problem. It is part of a widespread erosion of parents' rights to raise their own children. Moreover, there is a whole ideology favoring government takeovers of parents' role. This ideology has been promoted for decades by people like Hillary Rodham Clinton and organizations like the so-called Children's Defense Fund.
Schools have already taken over the decision as to when and in what manner your child will be introduced to sex. Some schools are teaching various techniques of homosexual acts and some have gay activists visiting the schools, passing out cards giving the addresses of local homosexual hangouts.
The question is not whether the decisions made by the schools are wise decisions. The more fundamental question is why they have a right to take over such decisions from parents in the first place. Still more basic is the question: Why do we let them get away with it?
This is still a democracy, after all. If parents started voting against politicians and judges who have been taking away their rights as parents, it would have to stop. If legislatures started impeaching judges who punish parents for refusing to drug their children, that would come to a halt as well.
There is no great mystery as to why people want more power over other people. There have always been despots, large and small, throughout thousands of years of recorded history. For at least the past two centuries, there have also been ideologies that argued for government takeovers of parents' role in the raising of children. There is nothing original in Hillary Clinton's notion that "it takes a village to raise a child" -- whether the parents want their child raised by a village or not.
Claims that "studies prove" the need for Ritalin are far less convincing when you realize how often studies have "proven" one thing, only to have later studies prove the opposite. Parents and voters need to wake up to the dangerous extension of government despotism into the family.