When it comes to parents’ rights over school curricula and their children’s best interests regarding “appropriate” books, it would help if parents did their homework without ideological motivation that turns their kids into political MAGA props. Having children doesn’t mean having good judgment. It doesn’t mean doing what’s best for your kids or society. Even the righteous can be wrong.
This didn’t matter much to a Supreme Court that recently ruled that parents have a right to opt their schoolchildren out of classes and lessons that offend their beliefs. Speaking for the 6-3 minority, Justice Sonia Sotomayor put it in context by warning that there will be “chaos for this nation’s public schools.”
But maybe we’re getting inured to chaos.