"Students and families may not choose to opt out of engaging with any instructional materials, other than 'Family Life and Human Sexuality Unit of Instruction' which is specifically permitted by Maryland law." On one side you have the erm... left? on the other you have a lot of very very very angry people of the Islamic faith who feel like this law discriminates against their beliefs. Same is happening in Canada where they are saying you're not Canadian if you don't support the position the school is pushing. It's turning out to be rather entertaining given that I don't have a dog in the fight.