North Carolina lawmakers followed in Florida’s footsteps Tuesday by introducing a bill that would follow in Florida’s footsteps to create a “Parental Rights Act” and remove the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity from the curriculum for kindergarten through third grade students.
Lawmakers introduced an updated version of House Bill 755, originally created to promote “academic transparency” by mandating K-12 schools to provide public education on materials. Top reported. The bill was introduced last year and Rep. Hy Blackwell (R), despite remaining on Senate committee in May 2021. The new version of the bill requires public schools to provide parents with any and all information about health, privacy and education. Their children “including the ability to use a different noun or pronoun,” the report said.
“Public school units require employees to notify parents of a child’s health or well-being, or changes in services or monitoring, or a child’s health or well-being, or parental service or control,” – stated in part on the bill. “Sexual orientation and gender identity will not be taught in the kindergarten through third grade curriculum.”
The law is similar to the Parent Education Act in Florida; here, left-wing critics incorrectly refer to the law as “Don’t Say Gay”, even though the word “gay” is nowhere to be found in the law.
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However, North Carolina Senate Interim Speaker Phil Berger (right) said the law is a little different in Florida. Florida law states, “A school district may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in elementary schools or in a way that is inappropriate for students’ age or developmental level.”
“There is no attempt to stop people from talking about things,” Berger said, according to WRAL-TV. “There are certain restrictions against being part of the curriculum from kindergarten through third grade.”
Berger said that after schools switched to distance learning during the pandemic, parents began to pay more attention to what their children were learning.
“This is an issue that worries parents across the state,” he said. “They worry about what they see.”
Source: Breitbart
