“The central issue in the case is parental rights to their children and knowing what’s going on in the school with their children, and by this policy, that is being denied,” said Rick Claybrook, a lawyer representing the parents in a lawsuit against the Montgomery County, Md. Constitution’s 14th Amendment-which broadly gives parents the right to direct their child’s upbringing, health, and welfare-or of state constitutions, which rely heavily on the federal equal-protection language and case law. Those actions, they say, are violations of the U.S.
