By WMAL.com

Parents in the state of Maryland are taking the fight to local school boards over their controversial decision to force educators to add topics related to gender and identity to the classroom. The framework created by state school boards advises schools to teach children as young as five and six about how to “recognize a range of ways people express their identity and gender.”

Parents of students in fourth grade or higher are given the option to opt-out of the new proposed curriculum, but those third grade and below will be forced to be subjugated to the material. As expected, reasonable parents are standing up and telling the woke school boards that the curriculum is wildly inappropriate and are calling for more of a say in what their children are being taught.

“Children belong to the parents; not this county, not this state,” a longtime county resident with great-grandchildren in the school system told Carroll County school board members in April. “The government has no right to attempt to replace parents or their decisions regarding what their children learn.”

In Montgomery County, home to the state’s largest school district, implementation of the curriculum’s framework is expected to begin in the upcoming school year. While it will begin with high schools it is expected to begin phasing into lower grade levels over the next several years. In Prince George’s County Public Schools a spokesperson told The Washington Post that the framework had not been adopted yet, but they expected to begin the process in the near future.

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