Joe Harding

The second thing is that it creates a course of action for the parent who is dealing with a school district that has decided they are going to become the parent. They’re going to take your student that has anxiety and stress and mental concerns maybe even talking about self harm and they’re going to put them in mental health and take steps to change the services at the school and protect that student from themselves but never engage with the parent. That’s just wrong so our bill seeks to remedy that.

That’s just wrong, it’s dangerous and wrong and so the bill does those two things it empowers parents by giving them a legal remedy to resolve if a school district is making these decisions without them.

They said that we were banning the word, that we were banning people, all things that aren’t true, i think that’s backfiring because the American people have woken up over the past five or six years and realized not to believe what you’re hearing. Do your own research.

Kids can and they will talk about whatever they want at school, we just want to make sure that teachers promote that discussion at the right age level, and we want to make sure parents are kept in the loop.

One, it defines that there are certain instructions related to gender and sexual orientation that are just not appropriate at certain ages and we define that as kindergarten through third grade, a school having curriculum that teaches gender and sexual orientation and what that means and getting into the weeds on that is just not age appropriate.

The biggest danger and the biggest lie is that what the opposition to the bill is saying that you can't be pro-parent and compassionate and tolerant to the LGBTQ community.

Nothing should be withheld from parents in a child's life.

[Teachers] know when it's time to engage the parent.