One only had to listen to the audio, or read the coverage during the arguments of Mahmoud v. Taylor to get a sense of just how the majority of SCOTUS was going to rule.
The ruling issued yesterday was a huge win for parental rights. The case before SCOTUS concerned LGBT books that were being introduced into classrooms by Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools, and the district’s insistence that it was too much of a burden TO THE DISTRICT to notify parents ahead of time about the curriculum, AND that parents were not allowed to opt their children out of the curriculum. This led to a religious unification among parents, who sued the school district over their policies.
Friday’s 6-3 ruling, split along ideological lines, found that Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools violated parents’ First Amendment rights to religious exercise by not giving them advanced notice or an opportunity to opt their children out of certain lessons. The school board had initially allowed parents to opt out of lessons, but the board’s policy reversal in the 2023-2024 school year sparked a legal challenge.
The school district said it had withdrawn its opt-out notice policy because it became unmanageable and resulted in reports of high absenteeism to the school board...
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