Polk v. Montgomery County Public Schools

The Child & Parental Rights Campaign, together with Our Duty–USA, filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in Kimberly Ann Polk v. Montgomery County Public Schools (No. 26-8), in support of the petitioner. The brief urges the Court to grant Ms. Polk’s petition for a writ of certiorari and review the Fourth Circuit’s decision. Ms. Polk, a substitute teacher, was terminated after she refused to follow the district’s Parental Secrecy Policy, which required her to conceal from parents that their children were asserting a discordant identity at school. The brief argues that the policy violates parents’ fundamental rights to direct the upbringing, mental-health decision-making, and religious upbringing of their children — building on Mirabelli v. Bonta and Mahmoud v. Taylor. Prepared by Mary E. McAlister (Counsel of Record) and Vernadette R. Broyles of CPRC, with C. Erin Friday of Our Duty–USA.