Can a school retaliate in the TJ admissions process

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Anonymous wrote:I'm one of those parents who always questions things. I am always opting out of stupid SEL nonsense, controversial books. and the like, and in general I don't allow the school to push their agenda to my kid. What I do however is just for my kid, I don't go public with all these, I always resolve the issues at the school level or at the FCPS admin level. In other words, I am not an activist, all I care about is that my child is instilled with our family values., but I always push back if I have to, and push back politely but firmly.
Would all these play a role to my kid's TJ admission process? Is there a chance that the school retaliates behind the scenes and "kills" my kid's chances, assume all else is equal?

“I am not interested in my child learning anything that challenges their thinking beyond what I’ve instilled in them. I only want them to learn what I believe in.” sorry, but this isn’t your right in the public school system. They’re not supposed to be echo chambers and can’t customize to individual belief systems. (Thank goodness!)

How come when it's stuff OP is interested in her kid not being exposed to, you say it's just challenging beliefs. But another poster on the thread said OP's kid can't "evangelize" (aka share their beliefs). If the school system is supposed to accomodate all belief systems, then it gets to accommodate OP's too.

Otherwise what you meant is that the school can only be an echo chamber for what I think is right and if your kid doesn't like it shove off.

Schools have always been a battle ground over how we're going to form people, because schools have always been about more than reading, writing, and 'rithmatic. The only question is whether you acknowledge you have an agenda or not.

You can’t combine my post with a different poster’s comment to validate your narrative. You’re putting words in my mouth.

But while we are at it… in many cases (not all) right-wing values/beliefs are informed by religious beliefs …
Often counter to legally protected beliefs. A fundamental tenet of our democracy is the separation of church and state. And I get uncomfortable the second religious beliefs drive public school curriculum. People are okay with that when it’s their religious beliefs in the driver’s seat. But what if Muslim or Jewish beliefs started to drive or limit public school teachings? I dare say that the Christian right would start Constitution-thumping then… no disrespect to Islam or Judaism or Christianity but it’s a slippery slope. Keep religious values out of public school curriculum.

The first amendment establishes freedom of religion through the free exercise clause and the establishment clause.
Your concern here seems to be the establishment clause.
Government is not separated from religion. Government can give religious organizations tax exemption and funding as long as the primary purpose is not religious, the government involvement neither promotes nor inhibits religion, and avoid excessive entanglements between government and the religion.
Morality is not the exclusive domain of religion and you can certainly lean on your religious beliefs to create policies within these limits.

The OP's concern might be the free exercise clause.

But with free exercise, which religion should be leaned upon to create policies?

Welcome to democracy. As long as those policies do not violate the establishment clause or anyone else's free exercise, your weird fkd up ideas can compete with my weird fkd up ideas to reach some sort of wisdom of the masses