Ketanji Brown Jackson makes a powerful argument for school choice

Published April 24, 2025 2:33pm ET



During oral arguments in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson unintentionally made a practical and convincing case for universal school choice.

A few years back, the school board in Montgomery County, Maryland, instituted an “LGBTQ-inclusive” curriculum that included storybooks for children as young as prekindergarten. The books are ostensibly part of the English curriculum because they feature words and sentences. But the rationale for the program, according to the school system itself, is to “disrupt” the “binary” thinking of skeptical children — which sounds very much like indoctrination.

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