Education · Newark-North Jersey, NJ Metro · September 15, 2026
NJ School Board Faces Death Threats After Parents Sue Over Trans Policy
A Morris County, New Jersey school board meeting drew a packed crowd Monday after Moms for Liberty and two anonymous parents filed a federal lawsuit challenging the district's Policy 5145.7, according to NJ.com. Adopted in January 2024, the policy let students use a chosen name and pronouns, kept transgender status confidential from parents, and allowed students to use facilities matching their gender identity, with a "reasonable alternative" offered to others. The lawsuit argues the policy violated parents' constitutional right to direct their children's religious and moral upbringing, and that students could face discipline for refusing to use another student's chosen pronouns. Board Vice President Susan Ross said the policy was an outdated model policy and will not appear in the district's newly adopted policy catalog. Board member Michael Ryan told the crowd the board has received death threats in the mail daily since the lawsuit was filed, calling the suit "reckless" and saying volunteers "don't deserve death threats." The district was not named specifically in the excerpt provided.
Source: NJ.com
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Why Bible-Believing Christians Should Care
This case sits squarely on the jurisdictional line between school authority and parental authority — a line Scripture places firmly with parents, not institutions. A policy that deliberately concealed a child's gender transition from parents treated the school, not the family, as the final authority over a child's identity and moral formation. Christian parents should note that even as this board appears to be dropping the specific policy, the underlying claim — that schools may withhold consequential information from parents — persists elsewhere and is being defended, sometimes with hostility, against those who challenge it. Death threats against volunteer board members are inexcusable regardless of position, but they also reveal how contested this jurisdictional dispute has become in ordinary communities.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. — Ephesians 6:4
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