CAIR says MoCo teachers told to ‘disrupt thinking’ of students with traditional gender views

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Montgomery County Public Schools “misled” parents and a federal court about the controversial introduction of LGBTQ-related reading materials for grades as young as pre-kindergarten, according to a Muslim civil rights group.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations said documents obtained from the school system via open records requests call into question the district’s claim that a program to allow families to opt students out of LGBTQ-related instruction would be too disruptive for county schools.

And when a Montgomery County-based media outlet asked MCPS to back up the disruption claim, the district could supply “not a single email, not a single chart, not a single number. Nothing at all, about the issue of too many kids opting out … being the reason the opt-out was canceled,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, CAIR’s deputy executive director, during a community webinar aired on social media Tuesday evening.

CAIR also claimed that officials encouraged teachers to “disrupt the either/or thinking” of pupils who voice traditional values in class.

CAIR says MoCo teachers told to ‘disrupt thinking’ of students with traditional gender views

Montgomery County Public Schools “misled” parents and a federal court about the controversial introduction of LGBTQ-related reading materials for grades as young as pre-kindergarten, according to a Muslim civil rights group.

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Montgomery students can’t opt out of LGBTQ storybooks, judge says​

In denying a temporary injunction, a federal judge was not persuaded that certain readings infringe on the First Amendment rights of religious parents​

Judge Deborah Boardman of the U.S. District Court for Maryland in Greenbelt said in a 60-page opinion that the parents failed to show that the no-opt-out policy would “result in the indoctrination of their children or otherwise coerce their children to violate or change their religious beliefs.”

The school system’s attorneys argued that exposure to the content doesn’t violate the Constitution and that teachers don’t tell students what to believe from the books.

Instructions to educators that accompanied the curriculum suggested sample language they might use to answer students who objected to the teachings: “I understand that is what you believe, but not everyone believes that. We don’t have to understand or support a person’s identity to treat them with respect and kindness. School is a place where we learn to work together regardless of our differences.”

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Just like we can teach about Christianity or Islam without indoctrinating students, the same is true of other topics.