I had to do that for sex ed in elementary school when my kids were students. AZ had that option, but if we had still been in Cali, they would have been forced to go. Just amazing the power the government thinks they have over good ole Mom and Dad!
It has been given the green light for decades. Same as unsupervised and undiscipined children experimenting and getting away with increasingly outrageous behavior, because those who had the power to stop the insanity, didn't bother. The children learn that they really can get away with anything.
A Republic, if you can keep it. Well, there went that idea. America is circling the drain.