Parents will have a right to review curricula and meet with teachers, if a new bill sponsored by Rep. Virginia Foxx becomes law. The bill titled, H.R. 5, the Parents Bill of Rights Act, was passed in March by the House. As the current chair of the Education and Workforce Committee, Foxx is deeply concerned about how progressive policy has leached into the public school system.
“Teachers unions and education bureaucrats worked to push progressive politics in classrooms while keeping parents in the dark,” said Foxx. “The Parents Bill of Rights Act aims to end that and shine a light on what is happening in schools. This bill will reaffirm a parent’s right to review course curriculum, meet with the child’s teacher, and be heard at school board meetings without fear of reprisal.”
The aim of this bill is to raise awareness about the issues that parents have been facing in trying to shield their children from woke, progressive ideologies. Foxx shared with me that this bill acts as a messenger to inform parents, and local-level officials on their rights within education. This framework can be used as a mechanism for parents to understand the rights they have about the education of their children.
The bill does not act as an enforcement mechanism for specific rules that schools should follow. Instead, Foxx encourages individual states to pass their own parental rights bill while this bill is being worked on in Congress. The bill can carry the conversation to parents, school board leaders, and state officials.
“When parents are involved in their child’s education, students thrive” said Foxx. “That is the guiding principle of this bill. With the Parents Bill of Rights Act, Republicans will help parents steer the educations of their children back onto the correct path where they can learn the skills they need for a lifetime of success.”
The involvement of our parents in the education of our children is a crucial part of a family-focused America. When parents are involved in education, the students will likely do better. Research has shown that parental involvement can lead to higher grades and test scores, higher achievement in reading, better attendance, more homework done, and higher graduation rates (Henderson, A.T. & Berla, N., 1994).
When parents are having to question the integrity of their local school board policies along with making sure that their kids do not have access to pornographic material in the library, they will be spending time and energy that could otherwise be spent with their children.
Some teachers argue that sharing the lesson plans and curricula is too much of a burden on lesson plans and their workload. The only way to make sure that these policies are not embraced in the future is by allowing parents to see the material that is being provided to their children.
We need to go back to a rudimentary education that emphasizes reading, writing, arithmetic, and the basic fundamentals, something that modern education fails to focus on. The policies of modern, progressive education have proved harmful to our children as they support sexualizing children from early childhood. Parents have a right to know what their children are being taught.
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