School districts around the country trying to circumvent parents rights after SCOTUS ruling | Eastern NC Now

The US Supreme Court struck a huge blow in favor of parents rights last summer in the landmark decision of Mahmoud v. Taylor, which specifically dealt with schools promoting the LGBTQ and transgender agendas.  It ruled that parents had to be notified of any such instruction and be given the opportunity to opt their children out,

Rather than accept that ruling, many school systems are trying to circumvent it.

In Lexington, Massachusetts, site of the famous opening battle of the Revolutionary War, school officials demanded that parents identify the specific matters to be opted out but refused to give them access to the materials to be able to identify such issues.  They also claimed that if a lesson was couched in terms of "tolerance" that allowed them to get into LGBTQ and trans issues.  The Mahmoud decision does not create any such exemption for the schools.

In California, their leftwing state attorney general claims that the state can still impose a law that prohibits schools from disclosing children's gender identity issues to their parents, claiming that since this does not involve curriculum, it is okay.

Colorado's Cherry Creek School District is setting up "lunch with a teacher" to discuss LGBTQ and trans issues with students, without notifying parents or allowing opt outs.

The New Richmond School District in rural Wisconsin maintained a secret policy of allowing students who claimed to be "transgender" to use the restrooms and locker rooms of the opposite biological sex, and intimidated students to not tell their parents. When it got out anyway, they blasted the parents for being "bigots" and misrepresented the laws involved.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/school-district-circumvents-parents-inviting-kids-lgbtq-discussion

https://thefederalist.com/2026/02/16/5-things-to-know-about-the-secret-wisconsin-school-trans-bathroom-policy/