The Supreme Court can end the lost teachers’ war against families
Parents throughout America are politicizing education at the expense of students’ completion, but activists are still not getting it. Consider the Montgomery Province, Maryland, where a variety of religious parents’ objections will be heard on the decrees of their authoritarian school’s board of directors this week by the Supreme Court.
The case, Mahmoud against Taylor, reveals the deep corruption that affects schools throughout America – and provides the court with an opportunity to reaffirm parents’ rights in education for the first time in decades.
In 2021, it established an organization to address the increasing politicization of K-12 education. I realized that American education was not in good condition, but the extent of the violations we discovered over the past four years was a truly shock.
Consider, for example, one billion dollars in grants provided by the Biden administration to enhance the DEI ideology that says that all children are either victims or persecuted and that many of them are responsible for previous procedures for others because of their skin color. Or consider more than 1,200 regions across the country that require teachers to hide the sexual identity of students from their families, school policies of schools and speech discrimination, among other things. It is really amazing to see an educational system that won successive global wars and puts men on the surface of the moon to the point of spending its limited resources on the yoga circles and knitting departments.
The bureaucrats are excessive schools that focus on the policy of identity and fairness, suffering from students’ achievement. Do not look further than the country’s report card, which revealed that 72 percent of the eighth graders who receive the national evaluation of the progressive educational mathematics exam cannot be recorded until the level of “efficiency”, despite the billions that spend annually on the system. This was not an anomaly – the levels of reading in the fourth and eighth grade are at the lowest level in 30 years.
In the midst of these unannounced educational emergencies, the Board of Directors of the Montgomery County School decided that, instead of just teaching students reading, writing and arithmetic-is the reason that the same families record their children in public schools-to present “comprehensive” stories books on sexual topics in the curricula in the pre-District pre-grade. To the deep panic of hundreds of parents from the different backgrounds of faith, these books celebrated the activity of transgender people, gay and gay marriage marches. They have introduced the words and topics of inappropriate tons of operations for 3 and 4 years such as “Leather Belt” and “Drag Queen”, and the names of transitive activists and sex workers. Books targeting 10 and 11 were discussing what it means to be “non -binary”.
In addition to the insult to the injury, shortly after the presentation of these books, the school council announced that it is planning to end its long-term policy that had previously provided parents of the right to notify their children-and their penetration of the course of the training course on human sexual life and family life.
It is not surprising that the families rebelled against this on the reasons for the first amendment and the rights of parents, and asked the right to choose their children outside the classes. Instead of listening and responding to the voter fears, the school council mocked them. The parents were told that their religious beliefs were “hatred” and that their fears are “exaggerated.” In the face of this bureaucratic title, some families removed their children from the region, and paid from the pocket of schools that suit their needs better while the use of tax dollars continues to support an area that is not starkly respected.
The strict refusal of the Montgomery County School Council is confused, given the lack of popularity of its location: 77 percent of Americans support the cancellation of parents’ participation in such issues. In 2024, an educational poll found that 74 percent of parents oppose teachers who provide education on sexual tendency and sexual identity at the primary school.
Even the provincial managers expressed their concerns about the suitability of controversial books, which they said “rejected” religion.
Mahmoud against Taylor presents the court a unique opportunity to clarify that parents know the best when it comes to teaching their children, and that schools do not have politicization work at the expense of students. For families all over the country with school -age children, let’s hope that judges will take this moment.
Nicole Nelly is the founder of education defense (formerly for parents who defend education).
