As student test scores have plummeted nationwide, public school administrators are increasingly focused on teaching our children not how to think, but what to think.
On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court made a landmark ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor that allows parents to opt their children out of gender identity indoctrination and LGBTQ-related lessons and surveys in public schools. This is a crucial opportunity to take action and ensure that schools everywhere respect parents’ rights.
Add your name to tell school leaders that parents, not school district administrators, have the fundamental right to guide the morals and education of their children.
This opportunity was hard fought by parents bravely standing up to protect their kids. In the 2022-2023 school year, a religiously and racially diverse coalition of parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, requested that their public school district allow their children to opt out of books with LGBTQ material that conflicted with their religious beliefs. Their request was simple: They wanted the right to opt out. Montgomery County Public Schools refused.
But the Supreme Court has now ruled that this denial violated parents’ rights.
Across the country, local school districts have promoted books with LGBTQ themes, many of them obscene and politically motivated, throughout libraries and classrooms. Schools incorporate LGBTQ lessons into curricula and administer sexually explicit surveys to students without notifying parents, asking about students’ sexual habits and whether their gender identity differs from their biological sex.
Some schools have implemented policies allowing students to use bathrooms and locker rooms based on self-declared gender identity rather than biological sex. Others now mandate the use of preferred pronouns, often under threat of suspension for noncompliance.
These policies, books, and lessons are contrary to the religious beliefs of many parents and their children. The Supreme Court has now restored the parents’ right to guide the moral, religious, and educational upbringing of their children.
But this ruling must be enforced at the local level.
We must inform our school district leaders that we will not allow our public schools to indoctrinate our children in violation of our beliefs.
Sign this petition to tell your superintendent and school board members: You stand with parents who are exercising their opt-out rights. You will not stay silent.
