Montgomery County Maryland Public Schools (a swanky DC suburb) have themselves a dilemma. The laws of the state and policies of the schools allow parents to exclude their children from objectionable lessons, but the district has decided to ignore the requests.
Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools claims it was flooded with opt-out requests when the books [“storybooks” with sex workers, kink, drag, gender transitions and same-sex romance] were introduced in the curriculum in January, giving it legal justification, on logistical grounds, to issue a blanket policy of no exceptions and no notifications.
The district didn’t provide a specific number or even vague range, however, in its memorandum opposing the motion for preliminary injunction by Catholic, Muslim and Ukrainian-Orthodox parents who filed the First and Fourteenth Amendment lawsuit in May.
The school said you can opt out of the grooming lessons, so parents of faith – of which there appears to be a majority – did. This made using the books untenable, so the district said F— All! and retracted the opt-out because it claims it cannot operate given the demands.
Really, how did you operate these schools prior to January, when these offensive titles were added to the library and curriculum? Uniform statewide control of public education was authorized in 1864, and by 1865, “Maryland shifted from local control of schools to a highly centralized system whereby the State Board with the State Superintendent selected textbooks, set the curriculum, certified teachers, approved school building designs, and distributed State funds.”
For more than 155 years, Maryland educated children without “storybooks” with sex workers, kink, drag, gender transitions, and same-sex romance. I find it difficult to accept that you could not right your logistical ship with their removal.
Besides, isn’t this combined effort the very thing for which you pithy progressives and your coexist bumper stickers have been hoping?
Jews, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians (and no doubt other denominations of Christianity are on board) in agreement on the need to focus on academics.
The district imposed the no-exception and no-notification policy March 23, a day after it told the media it would honor requests and issue notifications, which united parents across the religious spectrum in opposition.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a reliably liberal advocacy group on most issues, has been especially vocal and visible in challenging the policy.
“Public schools have an obligation to be inclusive and neutral,” Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said at a multifaith rally Thursday. “They can’t be favoring one group over another.”
We’ve been writing about the inevitable clash of approved left-Wing victim groups for some time, and while this is not the first example, it could become a very deep trench on the frontline in the Left’s Gender war. If the Muslims that the progressives have been encouraging and accepting with open-arms pushback in numbers, the sex-book party might find itself at cross purposes.
They aren’t at all concerned about Christians or Jews, but Muslims intimidate them.
And imagine all of them, other concerned parents and feminists trying to protect women from predatory men using trans-policy to gain access to potential victims, all sharing an issue.
All coexisting in opposition to the Left’s latest cultural hill to die on, but that would be the old coexist. There’s a new one.
The new one is gender approved and comes with the same progressive contradictions as the original. The goal is not to get everyone, mentioned or not, to get along. It is to get them all under the thumb of the government and subservient to its wishes. If you’d like an example, the Montgomery County Maryland Public Schools response to parents of faith opting out of “instruction” involving “storybooks” with sex workers, kink, drag, gender transitions, and same-sex romance. will do.
