After Supreme Court Ruling, School Board Ordered to Pay $1.5M to Parents Over LGBT Storytime
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The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In another win for parental rights, a school district over in Maryland was ordered to pay $1.5 million dollars to parents who weren’t allowed to pull their kids out of LGBT story time. Let’s go through the details of the case together.
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| 0:00.0 | In another win for parental rights, a school district over in Maryland was just ordered to pay $1.5 million to parents who were not allowed to pull their kids out of LGBTQ story time. |
| 0:12.8 | And the backstory of this particular case is unusual to say the least. |
| 0:16.6 | And so strap in, smash those like and subscribe buttons, and let's dive right into it. |
| 0:21.4 | Rewinding the clock back to the year 2022. |
| 0:23.6 | That was when the Montgomery County Board of Education, they decided to mix it up a little bit in regards to what they were going to be teaching kids in elementary school. |
| 0:31.8 | Specifically, they issued this mandate here requiring school employees to find LGBTQ inclusive storybooks for the young kids, |
| 0:39.9 | including titles that promoted things like gender transitions, pride parades, |
| 0:44.1 | as well as same-sex romantic relationships between young kids. |
| 0:47.9 | Quote, a list of LGBT-themed storybooks was added to the district's curriculum for pre-kindergarten |
| 0:53.7 | through fifth grade in November of 2022. |
| 0:56.0 | The books include a title such as Pride Puppy, which describes what a child might see at a pride parade, |
| 1:02.0 | What Are Your Words, which centers on a child whose pronouns change like the weather, and Love Violet, a story about a same-sex playground romance. |
| 1:11.6 | There was also another book called Jacob's Room to Choose, which features a teacher convincing |
| 1:16.9 | her class to support a gender-free bathroom. |
| 1:20.3 | So these are several of the examples of the kinds of books that were selected in this particular |
| 1:23.9 | county for kindergarten through fifth grade. |
| 1:26.8 | Now, as you would imagine, many parents weren't necessarily thrilled with this new development. |
| 1:31.3 | However, at least initially, the parents were given the option to opt their kids out of being taught this material. |
| 1:36.3 | The parents, they would be told about the books that were on the docket ahead of time, |
| 1:40.3 | and they could choose whether or not their kids would be sent. |
| 1:49.0 | Quote, at the time, parents were promised they would be notified and could opt their children out when the storybooks were read. |
| 1:51.1 | That practice was consistent with Maryland state law and the board's own policies, both |
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