Families suing Montgomery County schools have asked a judge to rule by Aug. 28 on a request to allow temporary opt outs from lessons including LGTBQ inclusive books.
broader lawsuit for a permanent exemption from the lessons works it way through court.
“From our perspective, it was important to have an understanding of our rights and certainty on our rights before school begins,” Haun said. In the school system’s response filing, its attorneys said that the current policy is lawful “because it doesn’t coerce [the families] into refraining from raising their children according to their religious values or penalize their efforts to direct their children’s religious upbringing.
“It’s not a curriculum about sex, sexual identity, sexual orientation,” Pugh said. “It’s an English class that deals with teaching and learning the standards of reading and writing.”Ahead of a school board meeting Thursday, hundreds of parents protested outside in favor of an opt-out. The protests, whicheven though the topic usually isn’t on the agenda.
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