One For The Good Guys, School Board Owes Parents Big Time
The Montgomery County School Board is learning a lesson that many more need to learn. In 2022, the school board decided to try to flex its woke muscles by aggressively targeting children as young as kids in prekindergarten.
The board gave the middle finger to parents, never informing them about the fact that they were going to add more smut to the curriculum in an attempt to indoctrinate their children.
Liberalism is truly a mental disease. How else can you explain men and women who chose education as a career and then simply turned their backs on the idea of preparing kids for their adult lives by giving them a balanced education? Choosing instead to pollute their minds and possibly destroy their lives by indoctrinating them with unreal delusions.
In this case, the stomach-turning books that were chosen to help brainwash the innocent were “Born Ready,” which tells children in kindergarten that doctors only “guess about gender,” and another sexploitation manual titled “Pride Puppy,” which encouraged kids to look for images of underwear, leather, and drag queens at a pride parade.
When parents discovered the issue, they learned that the school board initially permitted opt-outs. However, in March 2023, they reversed this decision, informing families that they would no longer receive notifications and that their children would be required to participate.
One board member defended removing parents’ rights by arguing that opting out for religious reasons instills in children “another reason to hate another person.”
The Supreme Court confirmed what parents in that county knew – the books aimed to “disrupt” children’s understanding of sexuality and gender, rather than educate them.
Following that decision, the lawsuits began.
A coalition of Muslim, Catholic, and Ukrainian Orthodox families, represented by the religious liberty law firm Becket, sued the board for violating their First Amendment rights.
The school board, indignant and arrogant, fought back hard.
A federal judge appointed by Biden sided with the board in 2023, determining that the parents had not demonstrated that the storybooks crossed into indoctrination. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision with a 2-1 ruling in 2024.
The parents went straight to the Supreme Court.
On June 27, 2025, Justice Samuel Alito authored a 6-3 opinion that concluded the debate.
“The right of parents ‘to direct the religious upbringing of their’ children would be an empty promise if it did not follow those children into the public school classroom.”
Six conservative justices signed on: Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Chief Justice Roberts.
Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson were the dissenting justices—these three believe that government bureaucrats should determine what your children learn.
Judge Boardman – the same Biden appointee who originally ruled against the parents – signed the settlement that ended the case.
Montgomery County now must pay $1.5 million directly to the families.
It’s a beautiful thing. The families not only won damages and had their legal fees picked up, which Becket’s lead attorney, Eric Baxter, declined to say how much that number is, but the district must now operate under a permanent injunction with ongoing court supervision.
According to the court’s ruling, Montgomery County is required to inform all parents, not just those involved in the lawsuit, ahead of time whenever any content related to gender and sexuality is taught at any grade level. Parents also have the right to opt their children out of this instruction.
Baxter proclaimed that, “Public schools nationwide are on notice: running roughshod over parental rights and religious freedom isn’t just illegal – it’s costly.”
He referred to it as “a lawsuit that should never have occurred,” cautioning that lawyers nationwide are monitoring school districts that fail to comply. Other schools are observing this situation closely, and now parents have the option to opt out on a national scale. The $1.5 million is just the beginning of Montgomery County’s financial troubles.
Previously, the district paid $125,000 to settle a related First Amendment lawsuit.
The primary issue is that, alongside litigation costs escalating to the Supreme Court, the total expense to taxpayers due to one school board’s defiance amounts to millions. Not a single dollar of this cost has been borne by the bureaucrats who made the decision.
These individuals removed opt-out rights, labeled religious parents as hateful, and spent years battling families in court, yet they still receive their salaries.
Baxter was invigorated after the settlement:
“Lawyers will now be looking to enforce rights for parents against other schools that don’t follow.”
The suit, Mahmoud v. Taylor, is now a binding Supreme Court precedent – and a Massachusetts federal court already used it in January 2026 to rule in favor of a father who wanted to opt his kindergartener out of the same type of content.
School boards with disgusting, sexually explicit ideological agendas that push their delusions as though they outweigh constitutional rights are about to learn the same lesson Montgomery County just learned, one very expensive settlement at a time.
It’s costly, and the Democrats don’t care, but the price of lives that are saved by rescuing innocent minds can’t be measured in dollars at this time. Those benefits will materialize down the road, when “wokeism” no longer exists.
