The bill was enacted by the Peach State’s Senate on Friday and outlines the rights of parents to review classroom materials, opt their children out of sex education, access all records related to their child, and prevent the production of photos, videos, and voice recordings of their children, except for security purposes.
“Parents have a right to be actively involved in their child’s learning experience,” Kemp, a Republican, said in a tweet after the bill passed the Senate. “This bill will ensure transparency in education by promoting a partnership between parents [and] educators.”
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The law also requires school boards to create methods for parents to object to what’s taught in the classroom. Foes of the bill are concerned that it will create stress between parents and educators.
A related Georgia House bill was passed by the Senate recently, but it is advancing back to the House for approval of minor changes before landing on Kemp’s desk.
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House Bill 1084, called the “Protect Students First Act,” bans the teachings of nine topics considered “divisive,” including Critical Race Theory, which teaches students that the United States is systemically and fundamentally racist. It also prohibits teaching that one race is above another.
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It also adds that no student should feel “discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of his or her race.”
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Those in favor of the bill said it is still essential to paint a full picture of U.S. history.
“We can teach U.S. history, the good, the bad, and the ugly, without dividing children along racial lines,” Senate President Pro Tempore Butch Miller said Friday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We must teach patriotism and that America is good. Though not perfect, America is good.”
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Similar bills have been offered in other Republican-led states across the nation.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would be open to denying Walt Disney Co. of its special self-governing position over its public opposition to the recently passed “Don’t Say Gay” law.
DeSantis has been at loggerheads with his state’s largest employer over the “Parental Rights in Education” bill, which prohibits teachers from discussing LGBTQ topics like sexual orientation or gender identity with students unless they’re in the fourth grade or higher.
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DeSantis signed the bill last week, driving Disney to release a statement vowing to help defeat it in court.
“Disney has alienated a lot of people now,” DeSantis told reporters in West Palm Beach on Thursday.
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