Posted on 08/24/2023 1:29:09 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A Maryland district court denied parents’ appeal to reinstate an opt-out policy in Montgomery County Public Schools on Thursday.
The case, Tamer Mahmoud v. Monica B. McKnight, hinged on whether the district’s May decision to rescind its opt-out policy for LGBT curricula violated parents’ right to direct the religious instruction of their children.
The court concluded that, “the plaintiffs’ asserted due process right to direct their children’s upbringing by opting out of a public-school curriculum that conflicts with their religious views is not a fundamental right.”
Parents sought a preliminary injunction that would authorize opt-out options once school begins on August 28, which judge Deborah Boardman also denied: ......
The district’s LGBTQ curricula introduces pre-K through eighth grade students to “inclusivity” books that contain references to gay pride parades, gender transition, and pronoun preference. Teachers are instructed to lead classroom discussions about the books, which cite terms such as, “intersex,” “drag queen,” and “non-binary.” One book claims that doctors only “guess” when determining a newborn’s sex.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
The homo Marxist Dems have taken control of school systems.
silver lining
maybe this will increase support for school choice
this should change with appeal, because religious freedom is a fundamental right... Maryland courts are the devil’s court.
Truly a shocking ruling, claiming peoples’ kids as state property. I wonder if this now means that the state can sell children into sexual slavery?
Watched an episode of “Mannix” the other night wherein the old moralistic white guy accused the advocate of “sex ed” that they wanted to remove the child’s parents from the process. The advocate heartfelt and earnestly in the the very tones of pure innocence denied the scurrilous charge. Of course the morals spewing old white guy turned out to be the killer. Looks like the old white guy character was dead right.
“...they control a majority of the public school system...”
Actually they don’t.
“Education is primarily a State and local responsibility in the United States. It is States and communities, as well as public and private organizations of all kinds, that establish schools and colleges, develop curricula, and determine requirements for enrollment and graduation.”
https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html
So it is not within the government’s sole ability to develope curriculum. No one group can just declare anything without the overseeing of the other groups unless the other groups fold up and play dead. As for funding, the government funds only about 8% of the public schools.
wy69
The sexual weirdo crap, like the homeless, like the flash criminals, like VP Harris’ word salads, like Hunter’s soliciting bribes is all part of the same mind... it exists to keep us from seeing what’ really going on... it’s the ultimate disinformation.
I am going against the grain here but more and more I see the only solution being to end compulsory education by the state and its standards.
Home school if you can.
Find other parents who have the same concerns, and work on solutions.
Also, once out of the system- no one is bound to the Mon.-Fri. 7am-3pm schedule. Children can have classes at times that work best for parents i.e. day, night, on any of the days of the week.
How about separation of persons and state? State controlled education has always been a challenge to individual rights. It was tolerable when public run schools were truly community schools reflecting local values and needs. Those days have passed.
When "walkaway" is made illegal, then the next step is.... state fascism.
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Perversion
Hmmm...which one of these is not like the others?
I think homeschooling is the best option.
Close the leftist, partisan courts. This judge has no business in an Amercan courtroom.
A lousy report. No mention of the judges names, how many, their background, their politics (almost assuredly Democrat, and most likely pro-buggery). It is a case that seems made for the Supreme Court.
If the red states do secede, I hope they take the red areas of the blue states with them.
Judge Boardman- Appointed by Jao Bai Dan and nominated 52-48. Two GOPe Collins and Linda Graham-
You do, however, have a fundamental right to opt out of living in Maryland.
L+G+B+T+Q = 666
“But that takes courage. Something most of the sheeple lack.”
They’ve always lacked it. That’s why you can’t wait for them. If you know what’s right, and you are in the right place and time, then God picked you to be the one to stand up and say that, even if nobody else will stand up along with you.
And you might be surprised how many times someone did that and the sheeple took notice and grew some courage themselves. Of course the first guy to stand up probably got martyred before that happened, but still...
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