{"id":2498807,"date":"2025-10-14T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alito-concerned-courts-avoiding-question-of-parental-rights-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:02:11","slug":"alito-concerned-courts-avoiding-question-of-parental-rights-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alito-concerned-courts-avoiding-question-of-parental-rights-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Alito concerned courts avoiding question of parental rights in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falito-concerned-courts-avoiding-question-of-parental-rights-in-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2498807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Justice Samuel Alito has expressed concern that federal courts are avoiding the constitutional issue of whether schools violate parental rights by transitioning students&#8217; genders without parental knowledge or consent. The Supreme Court recently declined to hear a case involving a Colorado middle school accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >secretly promoting gender ideology<\/a> and rewarding students who came out as transgender. Although the court rejected the petition without detailed explanation, Alito, joined by Justices Thomas and Gorsuch, issued a statement highlighting the serious national importance of this issue. Alito noted that thousands of schools reportedly have policies that keep gender identity information from parents. Advocacy groups supporting the case expressed disappointment but vowed to continue efforts to ensure parents have the right to be informed about their children&#8217;s education and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccalls-ad-shakes-up-the-oklahoma-gop-governors-race\/\" title=\"McCall\u2019s ad shakes up the Oklahoma GOP Governor\u2019s race\">gender-related matters<\/a>. Simultaneously occurring, similar cases, such as one in Florida involving a secret gender support plan for a student, are awaiting possible Supreme Court review in the upcoming term.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Alito concerned courts are avoiding question of parental rights over transitioning genders in schools<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2369728\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/samuel-alito\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Samuel Alito<\/a> expressed concern Tuesday that federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/courts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">courts<\/a> are attempting to &ldquo;avoid confronting&rdquo; the question of whether parental rights are violated when a school transitions a student&rsquo;s gender without the parents&rsquo; permission or knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> declined to take up a case involving a middle school in Colorado that allegedly hid the promotion of gender ideology to students with their parents&rsquo; knowledge, with officials at the school giving prizes to students who &ldquo;came out&rdquo; as transgender at Gender and Sexualities Alliance meetings. While the majority of the high court did not elaborate on its decision to reject the petition to hear the case, Alito authored a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/101425zor_8m58.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a> joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch expressing concern over the issue at the center of the petition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3849366\/supreme-court-denies-alex-jones-appeal-defamation-judgment\/\">Supreme Court denies Alex Jones&#8217;s appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3845379\/supreme-court-asked-weigh-in-schools-secretly-transition-students\/\">Supreme Court asked to weigh in on whether schools can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-asked-to-weigh-in-on-schools-secretly-transitioning-students\/\" title=\"Supreme Court ... to weigh in on ...s secretly transitioning students\">secretly transition students<\/a><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3844590\/alex-jones-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-1-4-billion-defamation-judgement\/\">Alex Jones asks Supreme Court to pause $1.4 billion defamation judgment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I remain concerned that some federal courts are &lsquo;tempt[ed]&rsquo; to avoid confronting a &lsquo;particularly contentious constitutional questio[n]&rsquo;: whether a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-wont-hear-wisconsin-schools-transgender-notification-policy-case-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"SCOTUS won\u2019t hear Wisconsin ...\u2019s trans... notification policy ... - Washington Examiner\">school district violates parents&#038;rsquo<\/a>; fundamental rights &lsquo;when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender<br \/>or assists in that process,&#8217;&rdquo; Alito wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Alito said he concurred in denying the specific petition in <em>Lee v. Poudre School District R-1<\/em> because &ldquo;petitioners do not challenge the ground for the ruling below.&rdquo; He did express concern, however, over the &ldquo;nearly 6,000 public schools&rdquo; petitioners cited as having policies that hide information about a student&rsquo;s gender identity from his or her parents.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The troubling&mdash;and tragic&mdash;allegations in this case underscore the &lsquo;great and growing national importance&rsquo; of the question that these parent petitioners present,&#8217;&rdquo; Alito added.<\/p>\n<p>America First Policy Institute, which backed the case, said it was &ldquo;disappointed&rdquo; by the high court&rsquo;s decision not to review <em>Lee v. Poudre School District R-1<\/em>, but noted that its efforts to litigate similar school policies would continue.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re disappointed the Court didn&rsquo;t take this case&mdash;but our mission doesn&rsquo;t end here,&rdquo; Interim General Counsel for AFPI Gina D&rsquo;Andrea said in a statement. &ldquo;Schools should never be allowed to introduce complex, identity-shaping ideas in secret. And we will continue holding them accountable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every parent deserves the right to know what their child is being taught,&rdquo; D&rsquo;Andrea said. &ldquo;We won&rsquo;t stop fighting until that right is honored in every classroom in America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">While the Supreme Court denied the petition in&nbsp;<em>Lee v. Poudre School District R-1<\/em>, Alito&rsquo;s statement, joined by two other justices, could signal their interest in taking up one of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3845379\/supreme-court-asked-weigh-in-schools-secretly-transition-students\/\" target=\"_blank\">similar challenges<\/a>&nbsp;that the high court has been asked to review.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3845379\/supreme-court-asked-weigh-in-schools-secretly-transition-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SUPREME COURT ASKED TO WEIGH IN ON WHETHER SCHOOLS CAN SECRETLY TRANSITION STUDENTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Littlejohn v. Leon County School Board<\/em>, two parents sued a Florida school district over an alleged &ldquo;gender support&rdquo; plan it developed for their child, without telling the parents. The plan was drafted in secret and would have formally transitioned the child&rsquo;s gender at school without the parents&rsquo; knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The high court has already agreed to hear more than three dozen cases for its 2025-26 term, and is expected to add roughly an additional three dozen cases to the term in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alito worries courts dodge parental rights in school gender cases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2498808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25263594627210.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4430,10123,5152,40590,34304],"class_list":["post-2498807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-alito","tag-courts","tag-education","tag-legal-concerns","tag-parental-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25263594627210.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498811,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498807\/revisions\/2498811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}