A good day for pluralism in public education at the Supreme Court

Published April 24, 2025 12:01am ET



The Supreme Court will not issue a final ruling until this summer, but if oral arguments on April 22 are any indication, the justices will restore parents’ right to prevent the indoctrination of their public school children into radical gender ideology. This will be welcome to anyone who wants to see schools succeed as foundational institutions of our society.

For decades, Maryland’s Montgomery County School Board maintained a religious diversity guidelines policy that respected the fact that it was “the most religiously diverse county in the nation.” Parents had the right to opt their children out of any classroom activity they thought “would impose a substantial burden on their religious beliefs.”

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