It appears that the activism of the Maryland State Education Association (state teachers’ union) and their understanding of federal law and the US Constitution is at serious odds with reality. It is not a secret that the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) has been actively engaged in the local board business even if that business has nothing to do with the teacher’s wages, pay or the union’s mission.
For months now, the Somerset County’s teachers’ union kept posting lies on social media that the local Board is “banning Harry Potter”, “Letters of Anne Frank,” “To Kill A Mockingbird,” and other classic literary works.
What they are really upset about is the actual Somerset County Board of Education policy 500-19 that defines minors and adults, which prohibit the teachers union activists from forcing minors to read explicit and obscene adult materials by calling the minors “young adults”.
Anne Arundel County Board of Education (ACBOE) caved to the union’s demands, and the ACBOE published a policy that “young adults” may be exposed to medical gender transition treatment in schools without knowledge or disclosure of such treatment to their parents!
In July 2026, the U.S. Department of Education (ED), through its Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO), partnered with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and took enforcement action against Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS) in Maryland.
Well, well, well. The last few years AA, MOCO, and PG all required training modules be completed by all staff on trans, LGBTQ+, and the rest of the woke mess. This year, no training modules at all reflecting the above. No statements from BOE members or central offices. No statement from teacher’s associations. Nothing. Crickets.
When there were no consequences at all for those pushing that garbage, it was all the rage. Now the feds/DOJ step in and, yikes, we better be quiet and cancel all that jazz.
Funny how the world turns, ain’t it?