The House passed GOP-sponsored legislation Friday – a huge win for parents interested in the ongoing teachings in public school systems.
The Parents Bill of Rights Act would require public school districts to publicly post information on the curriculum for students, including parents being provided with a list of books and reading materials available in school libraries.
Sounds like a reasonable plan, right? It seems republicans in states across the country have been the only party pushing for the ban of over-sexualized books, and the limits on the radical school curriculum, mask policies, gender ideology and critical race theory in the classroom.
Democrats accused the bill of promoting fascism and excluding LGBTQ+ students.
“Extreme MAGA Republicans want to ban books on the Holocaust. Ban books on the Holocaust. Extreme MAGA Republicans want to ban books on Martin Luther King Jr. Extreme MAGA Republicans want to ban books on the LGBTQ journey in the United States of America. Extreme MAGA Republicans even want to ban a book on Roberto Clemente and baseball,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. claimed at the weekly Democratic press conference Friday. “That’s their educational agenda.”
The bill pretty much states that parents have “the right to know if a school employee or contractor acts to … change a minor child’s gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name; or … allow a child to change the child’s sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms.”
“We have such an extreme minority party that they couldn’t even denounce socialism,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said, referring to a House resolution condemning socialism that Democrats opposed. “Such an extreme minority part that thinks you should decriminalize carjacking and even some forms of murder. Such an extreme minority party, in the Democrats, that they think parents shouldn’t have a say in their kids’ education.”
The Parents Bill of Rights Act heads to the Senate next, where Democrats hold a majority. In the unlikely event the bill gets a vote and passes, President Biden would surely side with his fellow Democrats and veto it.
It’s only the American youth that would suffer from a veto like this, right?
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