Opt-Out Movement: Parents' Attempt at Claimed Space in Response to the Neoliberal Influence on Education

• In Event: Roundtable Session 21
  In Roundtable Session: Effects of Neoliberal Educational Reform on Students and Parents

Abstract

As the opt-out movement continues to gain momentum across the country, it warrants analysis as to its role within the current educational policymaking climate. This paper serves to analyze the opt-out movement as parental claimed space, including an examination of the role that parental voice plays in this process. Additionally, this paper discusses the role that neoliberal influences on current educational policy have played in the need for parents to claim space.
Keywords: opt-out movement, claimed space, neoliberalism, education policy, parental involvement

Author

• Jennifer Kessa Roberts, The Ohio State University