RALEIGH – The Senate and House voted Wednesday to override Governor Cooper’s veto of the “Parents Bill of Rights,” enacting the bill into law and ensuring parents will be fully informed about curriculum and their children’s mental and physical health. SB 49 also protects students in grades K-4 from instruction on sexual activity and gender identity.
“Parents already have the fundamental right to oversee the education and upbringing of their own children, but public schools have slowly been usurping those rights by hiding information and slipping radical ideologies into their lessons. SB 49 makes it clear, students belong to their parents, not to government schools,” said NC Values Executive Director Tami Fitzgerald. “Governor Cooper vetoed the will of the people when he dismissed parental rights, defying 80% of North Carolinians. NC Values is thankful Republicans in the General Assembly listened to an overwhelming majority of their constituents with this override.”
In January 2023, NC Values Coalition and NC Faith & Freedom Coalition commissioned a statewide poll which revealed 80% of North Carolinians favored more transparency in schools. North Carolina parents have been attending school board meetings in droves protesting indoctrination and secrecy, elevating the urgency for North Carolina to enact a legislative remedy.
Provisions in SB 49 include:
- school districts must inform parents about health services offered, including physical, mental and emotional. This includes parental notification a child is assuming a gender identity at school not consistent with their biological sex.
- a requirement for schools to establish a process for parents to object to textbooks and supplementary instructional materials.
- an opt-in for surveys asking for personal information.
- a process for parents to learn about clubs and activities including curricular or extra-curricular.
“In public schools we have staff showing children pornography and keeping secrets with them about their personal lives, which are grooming tactics Governor Cooper authorized with his veto,” said Fitzgerald. “NC Values will continue to alert and educate parents about indoctrination, violations of parental rights, and about inappropriate and obscene books in school libraries across the state.”
NC Values will hold two “Mama Bear Workshops” in August, one in Greensboro and another in Hickory. The workshops will educate the public about how to identify indoctrination, explain provisions in the “Parents Bill of Rights,” and will discuss various school choice options. In addition, NC Values will be endorsing candidates in certain school board races in 2023.
– NC Values Coalition News Release
This goes to show what kind of puppet Cooper is. He knows his veto was wrong but did it anyway. What a fool.
Good work. Cooper’s just a puppet on the strings of leftist Demos.
Woohoo!
So what this does is allows some parents to object to text books they see as inappropriate. What about the parents that see those same text books as appropriate for their children. Why should a few parents decide what my child should and should not read? I’m going to object to every text books that has any references to God, religion, the bible, the confederacy, Trump, politics, neo-Nazism, and any other da*n thing I can think of. Maybe then we all will understand how stupid this law really is. What this law really does is allow parents to get away from their responsibility of raising their own damn children.
You’re speaking out of both sides of your mouth. You want to talk about “allowing parents to get away from their responsibility of raising their own d*** children” but you don’t want parents to decide what is being taught to their children in the classroom. Furthermore, to be able to parent productively, one should know what goes on with his/her child in schools. If you want YOUR child to learn this extra nonsense, teach it to your child on your own time. Be a parent.
WRONG AGAIN!!!!! What I said is that other parents shouldn’t decide what my child has access to and learns. I don’t want some hypocritical so called Christian Idol Worshipping nut case to decide what my child learns. If they want to limit what my child is allowed to learn then I have the same right to limit what their child learns. Soon teacher’s won’t be able to teach anything because of stupid elected Idoits just pandering to get votes. How much money is this going to cost school boards across the state that will have to constantly review these books everytime some parent has an issue with a book? Money that could be used for schools. OH that’s a thought quit wasting money as a result of political posturing and use it for our children.
Here’s the beauty of your position. You can, and have access to , what ever information and materials you want. Teach them at home. No one is denying materials for you to teach your children…, that is if you have the time.
I believe the article said schools would have to provide a process for parents to object to any curriculum material. Without reading the bill, I would assume the choice of material is still decided by the school, district or state. To me, it sounds like parents can have input and object but no specific control on what is used.
You’re pathetic.
I’m sorry you can’t handle the truth Sara
Honest question: Are there Bibles in public school libraries? Genuinely curious.
If so they need to be investigated and removed. Some parts are very inappropriate/porngraphic for children, ie the story of Lot and his daughters in Genesis.
I believe the bill is aimed more at the sexually inappropriate than the list you rattled off. Which politics shouldn’t be taught in school to start with. History, math, science, English, music, arts etc. is what should be taught in school. And yes part of health is the human body and that is fine to be taught but do kids in k-4 really need to know how the human body works or should they be playing and enjoying being kids? Yes people on both sides will use this as a cudgel to get what they want but the way you sound you wouldn’t be doing for the best interest of the children but more for what you want in your political views.
Then you should be happy with the passage of this bill, it allows you the right to do exactly that. The article does not explain what the objection will lead to. It may lead to a review of the material by the school board, it may give the parents the right to have their children exempt from that material. What it DOES do is give the parents MORE ability to be involved in raising their children and not leaving it solely up to the schools.
NO! what it does is give more parents the ability to tell my children what they should and should not read or be thought. It also gives other parents the ability to parent my children by their ability to sensor what my child has access to.
It gives you the same ability.
NO! What it does is give all perents the right to question certain materials that are a part of the curriculum. However, as someone that is a reponsible parent, and wants to be involved, YOU can give your child access to anything you want them to learn.
NO it gives some parents the right to decide what my child can read. If parents don’t want their child to read something then THEY Should direct THEIR CHILD not to read it
Wrong on so many levels. It gives ALL parents the ability to voice concerns about books they don’t think should be available in the school system, not automatically have them removed, and you as a parent (if you can find the time to be one yourself, and not depend on the schools to do it for you) can provide whatever books you want for your children to read.
Soon we will be burning books in the streets, Censorship and Stupidity at its finest.
#Fahrenheit451
Are there any books that are currently banned in this country?
I don’t recall any banned books in this country, even the anti-American book Obama was photographed with departing Air Force One once isn’t banned. Since I’m sure the other party in this thread wouldn’t respond to your query.
No one’s talking about “ burning books”, we are talking about not allowing certain books in schools. If you want to go buy a book that you want your child to read by all means go ahead, but the hyperbole of “burning books” it’s just silly and makes you sound irrational.
Parents have the ability to access state mandated curriculum. Go to the dpi website and look up each subject and grade level and the objectives and standards are clearly visible. It is the curriculum being taught that is not state mandated with no standard course of study that should worry parents.