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SCOTUS Strikes a Blow against Public School Indoctrination of Young Children<\/a><\/h1>\n
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Mises Wire<\/a> <\/span> \u2022<\/span> James Bovard<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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On Friday, the Supreme Court clobbered perhaps America\u2019s most aggressive and intolerant LGBTQ+ school indoctrination program.<\/strong> By a vote of 6 to 3 in the case of Mahmoud v.Taylor<\/em><\/a>, the court upheld parents\u2019 right to exempt their children from biased sex and gender lessons that violated their religious values. The court\u2019s ruling is a bitter reminder that public education is the most expensive \u201cgift\u201d that most Americans will ever receive.<\/p>\n

Montgomery County, Maryland is the most liberal turf in one of the most liberal states in the nation. The Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) system prides itself on injecting progressive values into its 116,000 students. MCPS launched a gender-sex education program beginning in pre-kindergarten. The mandate was wildly unpopular with parents. The program initially offered an opt-out option\u2014similar to what almost every other school system in the nation offers. But after too many parents signaled they wanted their kids out, the county canceled the opt-out. County bureaucrats sounded like antebellum plantation owners complaining about too many runaway slaves. An organization representing Muslim, Ukrainian Orthodox, and Catholic parents sued the school system. Their goal was not to prohibit the controversial textbooks but to exempt their kids from the indoctrination.<\/p>\n

I live in Montgomery County and I have heard the anguish over this policy from foreign-born Uber drivers with children in local schools. Those Uber contractors came to this nation to pursue the American dream and are horrified to see how teachers are becoming deadly enemies of their family values and of their children\u2019s contentment with their own bodies. When the drivers implore me to explain the local school policy, I can only lament that \u201ccrazy as a loon\u201d doesn\u2019t translate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2019, the state of Maryland issued regulations to promote \u201cviewing each student\u2019s\u201d \u201cgender identity and expression,\u201d and \u201csexual orientation\u201d as \u201cvaluable.\u201d Government officials and political appointees arrogated to themselves the prerogative to redefine gender in the state of Maryland. In choosing books for the curriculum, the MCPS Board said it \u201cwould review options through an \u2018LGBTQ+ Lens\u2019 and ask whether books \u2018reinforced or disrupted\u2019 \u2018stereotypes,\u2019 \u2018cisnormativity,\u2019 and \u2018power hierarchies,\u2019\u201d according to a court brief filed by parents. That brief also noted that \u201cteachers are told to frame disagreement with [pro-LGBTQ] ideas as \u2018hurtful,\u2019 and to counter with examples of \u2018men who paint their nails\u2019 or \u2018wear dresses.\u2019 The guidance documents also instruct teachers\u2014twice\u2014to \u2018disrupt the either\/or thinking\u2019 of elementary students about biological sex.\u201d The goal is to instill in children \u201ca new perspective not easily contravened by their parents,\u201d as the MCPS Board admitted.<\/p>\n

In 2020, MCPS reported a 500 percent increase<\/a> in the number of black and Hispanic kids failing math thanks in part to pointless covid school shutdowns. But that was a trifle compared to the 582 percent increase<\/a> in the number of kids self-identifying as \u201cnon-binary\u201d<\/strong> in local schools. \u201cDisrupting children\u2019s thinking\u201d has been so successful that school medical intake forms indicate that almost half of students identified themselves as non-binary. MCPS justifies keeping young kids\u2019 gender transitions secret in order to protect children from their own parents.<\/p>\n

No data has been disclosed on how many of those students have been swayed to take puberty blockers that will leave them barren for life\u2014<\/strong>even though most kids who have gender doubts later accept what they were born with. There is no data on how many females have had double mastectomies or how many boys have had genital-altering surgery. Non-binary kids are far more likely to suffer mental illness, but the schools did not disclose any data on how their crusade boosted the use of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs. One survey found that more than half of transgender and non-binary youth considered committing<\/a> suicide in 2022.<\/p>\n

No wonder the parents\u2019 lawsuit complained that MCPS promoted \u201cpolitical ideologies about family life and human sexuality that are inconsistent with sound science, common sense, and the well-being of children<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few decades ago, supposedly only reactionaries objected to public schools providing sex education. If such \u201clessons\u201d had been limited to how to avoid pregnancy and venereal disease, then there would have been little or no harm or controversy. But that became the camel\u2019s nose in the tent. Sex education became obsessed with redefining gender and radically changing how kids viewed themselves and American society.<\/p>\n

In order to mold kids\u2019 values, Montgomery County schools destroyed the innocence of childhood by placing a massive focus on sex starting at age 3.<\/strong> Encouraging kids to doubt their gender and sexual orientation before puberty can blight their lives. Even the local association of school principals vehemently objected to the program, finding it \u201cproblematic to portray elementary school age children falling in love with other children, regardless of sexual preferences.\u201d Principals also opposed books and programs that \u201csupport the explicit teaching of gender and sexual identity\u201d; invite \u201cshaming comments\u201d toward students who disagree, and are \u201cdismissive of religious beliefs,\u201d according to a court brief. Pro-LGBTQ+ advocates have provided no evidence on the benefits of encouraging kids to torment themselves about their own gender for years before they reach puberty. It doesn\u2019t take 10 years of indoctrination to sway teenage boys to lust for female bosoms.<\/p>\n

This case epitomizes how \u201cfree\u201d schools subjugate parents and other taxpayers.<\/strong> When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on this case, Justice Ketanji Brown\u00a0Jackson scoffed: \u201cIf the school teaches something that the parent disagrees with, you have a choice. You don\u2019t have to send your kid to that school, you can put them in another situation.\u201d But many of the parents objecting cannot afford either private schools or homeschooling their kids.<\/p>\n

Justice Samuel Alito\u2014writing for the court majority\u2014declared,<\/p>\n

A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses \u201ca very real threat of undermining\u201d the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to instill\u2026 And a government cannot condition the benefit of free public education on parents\u2019 acceptance of such instruction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most parents pay taxes that could cover much if not all of the cost of their kids\u2019 schooling. Parents\u2019 rights vanish as soon as their tax dollar is deposited into government coffers. Paying for schooling indirectly turns parents from buyers into beggars. Public schools vivify how control over financing for a service leads to political controls over people\u2019s lives. Justice Alito scoffed at the three Justices who opposed the opt-out: \u201cAccording to the dissent, parents who send their children to public school must endure any instruction that falls short of direct compulsion or coercion and must try to counteract that teaching at home.\u201d As long as government officials don\u2019t strap children into their chairs and directly use electronic mind zappers, progressives assume officialdom hasn\u2019t gone too far.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court made the right call in upholding parents\u2019 right to opt-out their kids. But how did government schools ever become so arrogant as to claim a right to determine what each child thought about personal, moral, and religious issues? The power of government schools remains a dire threat to parents, children, and to the future of liberty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTUS Strikes a Blow against Public School Indoctrination of Young Children 06\/30\/2025 \u2022 Mises Wire \u2022 James Bovard On Friday, the Supreme Court clobbered perhaps America\u2019s most aggressive and intolerant LGBTQ+ school indoctrination program. 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