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Kyle Raney

Kyle Raney

Kyle A. Raney is a Partner at Lozano Smith in Sacramento and co-chair of the firm's Student Practice Group, specializing in special education and student issues for California education agencies.

Sep 17, 2026

2:33
And this was because too many parents were trying to opt out of too much of it? According to
2:37
them, yes.
2:39
And so they began just using those books with those grade levels, and they actually went a step further, and they gave teachers talking points to say, you know, let's say a student, if you read one of these books to a student, a student said, hey, you know, I go to church every Sunday, and I learned that only a man and a woman can marry or your God made you, you know, a boy or a girl, something like that.
3:04
They were supposed to respond and say that that's hurtful and that's wrong, essentially.
3:10
So the Supreme Court described these these books as unmistakably normative, that they were coercive.
3:17
They were almost a form of indoctrination.
3:20
And they exerted pressure to conform to a certain worldview.
8:19
And so this sounds different than just blanket opt-outs of, you know, I want to opt my child out of all LGBTQ materials.

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