UPDATE, 1:15 pm: Adds response from the State Board of Education. A handful of parents are taking the state to court, arguing that students are being shortchanged a basic education during the pandemic. The parents, who live in Tacoma, Normandy Park and Olympia and all have children with special needs, have filed a petition for judicial review in Thurston County Superior Court against the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education.