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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents in Montgomery Count, Maryland, want to be able to opt out of instruction on gender and sexuality that they say goes against their religious convictions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/17/lgbtq-books-supreme-court-montgomery-maryland-schools-religion/[/quote]

Why can't these a$$holes just go to parochial school? You cannot dictate public education according to religion. Nor should you. [/quote]

The parents in question were Muslim so I think they would send their kids to an Islamic school. But that’s just an aside.

Public education has been co-opted and enlisted as a tool to teach preferred social norms. Perhaps that was feasible 70 years ago. But now we are much more diverse and multicultural. What shared social values really exist in a multicultural society?  Especially one that ostensibly protects minority rights?  Why does the LGTBQ kid get to be affirmed but not the Muslim kid when a neutral option is available?

Pride Puppy is a rhyming alphabet book. Certainly you can teach a rhyming alphabet book that doesn’t incorporate Pride or that is centered on a Catholic wedding ceremony, right?  The selection of the book was intentional and parents are asserting their rights. If you want public education to be welcoming to all then make it so. [/quote]

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