For years, we have been hard at work trying to get parental rights protected by passing a Parents Bill of Rights act. This current session may be our best opportunity yet, after the NC Senate’s passage of Senate Bill 49 (the “Parent’s Bill of Rights”). It’s now up to the state House to take up action.
We believe parents are the primary educators of their children and want to know what their children are learning. Since our country’s founding, our laws and courts have upheld the fundamental right of parents to educate and to raise their children as they see fit. In recent years, government bureaucrats and teachers’ unions have pushed to exclude parents from the educational process.
According to a January 2023 poll of North Carolinians, 80.8% believe parents should have access to curriculum, materials and resources being used in their child’s classroom. A January 2022 Rasmussen poll concluded that 71% believe they should play a significant role in the curriculum development process. Furthermore in at least 26 states, including North Carolina, in 2022, Parents Rights Bills were introduced in state legislatures to give parents more control of and access to what was being taught in the classroom.
A Parents’ Bill of Rights would do the following:
- Codify a Parents Bill of Rights
- Develop policies to involve parents in their child’s education
- Require School Boards to develop procedures for addressing parents’ concerns and accessing curricula
- Sets forth parents Legal Rights for their Child’s Education
- Prohibits instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in K-4 curriculum.
For more reasons on why we support a Parents Bill of Rights Act, please visit ncvalues.org/parents#brief.
In gratitude,
Sincerely,
Tami & Team,
NC Values
