"Taxing the Ignorant" - ACLU Finally Steps Up to Defend MD Students' Right to a Free Public Edcuation

The Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, MD has repeatedly contacted the Maryland ACLU over the last 12 years to request assistance in eliminating illegal curricular fees in Montgomery County Public Schools.  The response from the ACLU was that they did not have the time to address this issue.  They believed the elected officials in Montgomery County would step up and do the right thing by our public school children. One ACLU representative termed illegal curricular fees charged by the Montgomery County Board of Education as:

"taxing the ignorant."

That implies that parents who know Maryland law will not pay illegal fees.  And that is exactly what has happened in Montgomery County.  Parents that know the law, don't pay the illegal curricular fees charged by MCPS.  Parents that are ignorant of the Maryland Constitution's guarantee of a free public education for all have been paying the illegal fees.  

Here is the lawsuit filed this week in Prince George's County regarding the fees the public school system charges for students to attend public school classes in the summer.

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