Lawmakers in Georgia have introduced anti-critical race theory legislation that would incorporate parts of Florida’s “parental legal rights in education” bill for a double-whammy school bill that is frustrating progressives.
The Common Humanity in Private Education Act” introduced in the state Us senate would restrict schools from teaching “that any sex, race, ethnicity, color, or natural origin is inherently superior or inferior,” embracing language similar to various other Republican-backed costs that have taken aim at critical race theory. The bill additionally bans indoctrination that anybody is “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously,” and prohibits class workouts that “segregate students” by race (a junior high school in New york city City stimulated controversy for one such workout).
Georgia Equivalent To Florida’s Groundbreaking Anti-Child Grooming Bill
But the bill would certainly go further than banning critical race theory. It also intends to “deter developmentally inappropriate classroom discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation” for grade school students– that is, children in kindergarten through 6th quality, usually ages 5 to 12.
Comparable regulations in Florida were inaccurately identified as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by LGBTQ+ lobbyists as well as movie critics who asserted it is hateful and also discriminatory to limit discussion of sexual preference as well as gender identification to greater degrees. A spokesperson for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, supports the parental legal rights bill, claimed the bill “would be more accurately described as an Anti-Grooming Bill” and also controversially claimed, jokingly, “if you’re against the Anti-Grooming Bill, you are probably a groomer or at least you don’t denounce the grooming of 4-8 year old children. Silence is complicity. This is how it works, Democrats, and I didn’t make the rules.”
The Georgia bill specifies that some schools “have inappropriately discussed gender identity with children who have not yet reached the age of discretion.”
It likewise says that “curricula and programs based in critical theory” have compelled “students to adopt language and attitudes that promote racial division and discrimination.”
Leftist critics pounced on the regulations, sounding the alarm as well as inaccurately calling it Georgia’s variation of the “Don’t Say Gay bill.”
Anthony Michael Kreis, a legal professor at Georgia State College, decried the bill as “a profoundly hateful piece of legislation that will harm Georgia’s children, chill speech, and will be used as a cudgel to attack LGBTQ people and their supporters as pedophiles.”
This is a profoundly hateful piece of legislation that will harm Georgia's children, chill speech, and will be used as a cudgel to attack LGBTQ people and their supporters as pedophiles. It is constitutionally infirm bill. It serves no interest but a bare desire to harm. #gapol
— Anthony Michael Kreis 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 (@AnthonyMKreis) March 9, 2022
Local reporters such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Maya Prabhu have stated that the education bill is not likely to move in the Georgia Senate due to the fact that the state Senate’s Education and Youth Committee is not scheduled to meet until Thursday, while Wednesday is the deadline for the bill to leave committee.
Mathematically, this bill can't go anywhere. Today's the last day to get out of committee and Education and Youth is not scheduled today.
But, there are always ways. Summers could try to amend it into another bill. My understanding is there's no interest in passing this. #gapol https://t.co/EdkRVztkUp
— Maya T. Prabhu (@MayaTPrabhu) March 9, 2022
“This measure is going nowhere fast in the Capitol this year,” AJC reporter Greg Bluestein wrote on Twitter. “But it also makes a statement when 10 GOP senators — including candidates for statewide office — sign on. Expect to hear it on the campaign trail — and possibly pave the way for debate next year.”
H/T The Blaze
