To the editor : I’ve heard some absurd school policies in my time, but this one is up there with the very worst ( “Parents can now opt kids out of LGBTQ+ lessons. How schools are bracing for the change,” Sept. 4). Parents can withdraw their children from lessons that conflict with their religious views (but the kids can’t opt out themselves).

Isn’t it among the goals of education that we become wiser, more broad-minded and enlightened? This ruling enables parents to keep their children in the dark about the realities of life, possibly even shielding them from science, as Yale Law School professor Justin Driver points out. Could parents opt their children out of science class where they learn the origins of the universe, the age of our planet — that our planet is a sphere?

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