Okay, here's the situation. Your child is a third grader and it's story hour. And you, for our purposes,

are a very traditional religious person. During story hour, the teacher, nice lady, pulls out a

children's book and proceeds to read a story about a little girl who realizes that she's a little boy and how supportive

the family isn't coming to terms of this realization. You, being very religious, interpret this as

an affront to God's divine order and the creation of male and females. It is contravened to your cosmic and spiritual

worldview. So you tell the school, moving forward, when the teacher reads something like this

that is opposed to our religious beliefs, I would like my child to leave the classroom.

I want to be in charge of explaining genders and transgender issues.

I don't want the school doing that. But the school says no. And the case makes its way all the way

up to the Supreme Court of whether or not you can opt out. How should the court rule? On my end,

I don't like schools indoctrinating children in general, regardless of what the doctrine is that they're indoctrinating them, whether that is Christian religious doctrine in a public school or progressive doctrine on the coasts.

I don't want schools to operate as a way to fix the beliefs of parents and point the children towards a

particular opinion. I don't like that in general. And I am deferential to parents. So in this

case, I would want the ruling to be in favor of the parents opting out if that's what they

want it. But of course, what you want the law to be

and what the law is are not the same thing, particularly when we get into constitutional law.

The job of the Supreme Court is not to wisely craft opinions on what we all ought to do,

where what the law ought to be, their job is to interpret the Constitution

as it stands. So what would your, if you agree with me, by the way, if you're with me so far,

what would your constitutional argument be for allowing parents to opt their children out of

public school education? What right would you be citing within the Constitution to allow them

to do that?

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