This case started in December of 1996 when the teacher submitted the books in order to
teach children that all families are different and shouldn’t be judged based on their
differences. However, at the time, since it included a family with same sex parents many
people sought to take it out of the curriculum. This showed the social values that many
people held at the time that homophobia and xenophobia were kind of the norm when it
came to teaching children about something like that.
The facts that the judge used to quash the petition was that much of their arguments cited
religious or moral grounds to dismiss the books. However the School Act states that no
religious dogma may be taught in school meaning that citing religion as a reason to not
have these books in schools was not able to be used as evidence for the case. The other
thing that was attempted to be brought up in court was the issue of sexual
practices/sexuality being taught to children through these books but there wasn’t any
evidence that these books were inappropriate for children. Due to that the judge made her
decisions to quash these resolutions.