Schools now have as much right to raise children as parents according to California Court.

MSNBC Transcript:  November 4, 2005

When a California school district surveyed elementary school students about sex and suicidal thoughts in the name of research, one group of parents felt that administrators had gone too far and they took the district to court. NBC's James Hattori has the story:

Tamany Fields was livid when her son told her about a survey he'd taken at his elementary school, a survey that included 10 references to sex. [Jimmy Fields:] “They said well, they asked me how often I masturbate, how often do I think about killing myself, do I want to touch other people's private parts?...”   That was three years ago, when her son Jimmy was 11 years old. 

[Jimmy Fields:] “The survey really more thoroughly disgusted me. It physically made me sick. I was like, why are they asking me these kinds of questions?”

Fields is among six parents who sued the Palmdale school district north of Los Angeles, claiming the schools had robbed them of their constitutional right to control their children's upbringing, including talking about sex.

[Tamany Fields:] “It should be the parent's sole decision that this be discussed with them.”

The 9th circuit court of appeals upheld a lower court ruling dismissing the lawsuit, finding that parents do not have a fundamental right to be the exclusive providers of information of a sexual nature to their children. The judges also called the survey a reasonable state action. It was given to students in grades one, three, and five to screen for kids with problems, but in a strange twist, the school district later admitted the sex questions were a mistake and discontinued the research.

James Hattori NBC News San Francisco