Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed that parents who are uncomfortable with homosexual and transgender content should simply place their children in new schools.

Jackson made the claim as the Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday from parents of elementary schoolers in Maryland who objected to stories about homosexual and transgender characters. The parents were asking for the ability to recuse their children from the content.

In response to the arguments, Jackson merely said that parents should choose to remove their children from the schools, without acknowledging that parents would therefore be expected to pay twice for education, once through taxes and a second time through private school tuition.

“I guess I’m struggling to see how it burdens a parent's religious exercise if the school teaches something that the parent disagrees with,” Jackson noted. “You have a choice. You don’t have to send your kid to that school. You can put them in another situation. You can homeschool them. How is it a burden on the parent if they have the option to send their kid elsewhere?”

While there has been a shift among Christians and conservatives away from government schools in recent years, many skeptics of the institutions have indeed noted the increased financial burdens imposed on parents who refuse to send their children to public schools.

“You’re forced through your tax dollars to fund education you fundamentally disagree with for everyone else’s children and now incur the costs of educating your children on top of that instead of being granted a quite simple accommodation,” one social media user observed.

“I shouldn’t have to invoke a religious exemption for simply wanting to protect my child’s innocence while they’re still in preschool or grade school,” another commenter added.

Though school choice and voucher programs are supported by many conservative parents who pull their children from government education, others are hesitant to support such proposals, noting that they maintain a core reliance on government money for the education of children.