What happens when a school district decides a Supreme Court ruling only counts
“in another state”? The Sunnyvale School District in Calif...



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The Supreme Court ruled for the entire nation in Mahmoud. Parents have the
right to notice and the right to say no, no matter where they live.

Sunnyvale Board of Education told the Taylor family that the Supreme Court
ruling did not apply to them.

Tell Superintendent Gudiel Crosthwaite and the Sunnyvale Board of Education to
restore parental notice and religious opt-outs for every family before the new
school year begins.

Restore parents’ opt-out rights
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Dear John,

What happens when a school district decides a Supreme Court ruling only counts
“in another state”?

The Sunnyvale School District in California has just answered that question.
In writing.

Last October, the district sent Justin and Rose Taylor an opt-out form. It
listed religious objections as valid grounds. The district created the policy,
printed it and mailed it.

Then it tore it up.

The Taylors received a letter telling them that the instruction “is not
optional.”

The district claimed that the Supreme Court’s Mahmoud ruling “addressed a
specific set of facts in another state.”

Hundreds of other school districts are following suit. Defiance is showing up
in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Illinois and across California.

This is no longer one school in one district. It is a dangerous precedent that
schools are weaponizing against parents across America.

This is what the Taylor children face this fall.

Their first-grade daughter and third-grade son will enter classrooms where
teachers can present LGBTQ materials that their parents were not allowed to
review and cannot opt their children out of.

One book listed in the complaint, Pride Puppy, asks three and four-year-olds
to find images from a Pride parade, including a drag king, a drag queen,
leather outfits and underwear.

County guidance, followed by the district, directs teachers to disrupt
traditional definitions of the family. It even instructs science teachers to
remove references to men and women from reproductive lessons.

The Taylors did everything right. They made a polite request, waited for
months and worked with the district to find a solution.

The answer came back:

“Under California law, districts are required to provide inclusive
instructional content that reflects the diversity of our community, including
representation of LGBTQ+ individuals and families, as part of our core academic
program.This content is not optional and is not subject to parent opt-out
provisions.”

Add your name and ask Sunnyvale to restore parental notice and religious
opt-outs for every family, as the Supreme Court requires.
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The Taylors are simply the family who managed to obtain the refusal in writing.

Across the country, districts are quietly hiding these rights from millions of
families.

Sunnyvale said the quiet part out loud.

The Taylors filed a federal lawsuit on June 22. Federal officials are already
reviewing whether other California districts have concealed parents’ opt-out
rights.

In Mahmoud, the Supreme Court held that requiring this instruction while
blocking religious opt-outs imposes an unacceptable burden on religious
exercise.

Sunnyvale relies on many of the same books challenged in that case. By
treating the ruling as limited to another state, the district is not offering
an interpretation of the law. It is refusing to follow it.

If any district can disregard Supreme Court decisions at will, parental rights
lose their force everywhere. The same logic could be used to ignore any Supreme
Court ruling that state or local leaders oppose.

The Taylors are asking Sunnyvale to follow the Supreme Court and give parents
notice and the choice to opt out their own children.

Please sign now and tell Superintendent Gudiel Crosthwaite and the Sunnyvale
Board of Education to restore notice and religious opt-outs before school
starts.
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John, the Supreme Court has already answered this question.

In Mahmoud, the Court held that presenting these materials while withholding
notice and forbidding religious opt-outs imposed an unacceptable burden on
religious exercise.

Sunnyvale uses many of the very same storybooks.

When a district reads that ruling and claims it only applies “in another
state”, that is defiance, plain and simple.

The ask here could hardly be smaller. Put back the form you already sent, and
honor it.

The Taylors are not asking the district to remove this content from the
curriculum for every family. They are simply demanding notice and the ability
to opt out their own children.

But the stakes could hardly be bigger.

If districts get to pick which Supreme Court rulings apply to them, no
family’s rights are safe anywhere.

School starts in August.

The clock is running, and every signature raises the cost of defiance. We need
a flood of names before those classroom doors open.

The district’s letter said the instruction “is not optional” and claimed that
the Supreme Court’sMahmoud ruling only applies “in another state”.

That is absurd. The Supreme Court rules for the entire country.



Sign the petition calling on Superintendent Gudiel Crosthwaite and the
Sunnyvale Board of Education to restore parental notice and religious opt-outs
before school starts.
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Thank you for standing with the Taylors and with every parent still in the dark

Anna Derbyshire

P.S. The school year is approaching quickly.
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Click here to ask Sunnyvale to restore parental notice and religious opt-outs
before classes begin.
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