Ah yes, welcome once again to the twilight zone known as the modern public education system, where a straight-A student with a 4.76 GPA and a 96th percentile SAT score can’t walk across the graduation stage—not because she failed a class, not because she skipped school, but because she and her Christian family had the gall to object to a mandatory indoctrination course disguised as “health education.”
Meet “Jane,” the pseudonym for a student who has done everything right academically and socially, except, of course, failing the most important modern test: unconditional submission to the left-wing dogma of public education bureaucrats.
Jane, a model student in Montgomery County, Maryland, now finds herself banned from graduating with her peers because her parents dared to request a perfectly reasonable opt-out from a curriculum that doesn’t just mention LGBTQ+ themes, but embeds them like subliminal messages in a Pink Floyd album, across the entire course.
Let’s be honest here. This isn’t about “health” class. It’s about loyalty oaths to progressive orthodoxy. The course content, based on documents the parents obtained, doesn’t just teach students about different identities—it tells them which ones are oppressed, which are privileged, and guess what? Christians like Jane’s family are automatically labeled as the villains. How wonderfully inclusive.
There’s even a nod to “white supremacy culture” tied to, wait for it, the “worship of the written word.” Translation: If you take your religion or scriptures seriously, you’re now part of the problem. It’s clown world meets 1984.
What’s really stunning is the utter inflexibility of Montgomery County Public Schools. The parents weren’t even asking for the course to be dismantled. They weren’t protesting in the streets. They didn’t try to cancel anyone. They simply asked for their daughter to take an equivalent class—at a Catholic school, or even through supervised independent study with a qualified health teacher.
MCPS responded with a bureaucratic shrug and said nope, not unless it’s with a current MCPS teacher, and it still has to include the very content they objected to. Because remember, when progressives say “diversity,” they don’t actually mean diverse thought.
The parents now find themselves in a full-on legal battle, with their petition reaching the Maryland Supreme Court, hoping someone—anyone—in authority will recognize that a student shouldn’t be punished academically for her family’s faith. And what does the district say? Crickets. The same silence from the same institutions that love to lecture the rest of us about equity and fairness.
Montgomery County school district won’t allow Christian student to graduate over mandatory health class with “LGBTQ+ affirming” and “religiously discriminatory” content.
A star student at a Maryland high school is being denied graduation next month due to what her family says… pic.twitter.com/YLpv40DCP3
— Tommy (@TPantheMan) April 25, 2025
Meanwhile, MCPS is already involved in another religious liberty case headed for the U.S. Supreme Court, where yet again, parents from multiple faiths—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—are suing for the basic right to opt their kids out of content that contradicts their deeply held beliefs. The school district, apparently drunk on its own power, decided that parents don’t even deserve to know what their elementary school children are reading—let alone have a say in it.
The fact that it’s come to this is both infuriating and predictable. We’re watching a public school system weaponize graduation requirements to force ideological conformity, while pretending it’s all about tolerance and education. But here’s the truth: if you need to mandate affirmation to prove you’re inclusive, you’re not inclusive. You’re just coercive.
Jane’s family is standing their ground—not just for her, but for every religious student trapped in this same system, whose parents can’t afford private alternatives. It’s a quiet act of courage in an era where dissenting from progressive orthodoxy comes with a price.
And while the school district may be hoping the courts side with their Orwellian view of “inclusion,” they should be worried. Because if the Supreme Court comes down in favor of religious liberty—as it often has under its current makeup—Montgomery County might just find that their iron grip on student thought is slipping.
Let’s hope they do. Because if the public school system truly believes it’s doing kids a favor by penalizing straight-A students for practicing their faith, then it’s not a school system anymore. It’s an indoctrination machine. And it needs to be dismantled. Brick by bureaucratic brick.
