LGBT activists have done their best in recent weeks to pressure Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to veto the Republican Parents' Bill of Rights. Their best clearly wasn't good enough.
Unfortunately for those who don't want more parent involvement and more transparency about what their children are receiving in school, DeWine said.
ratified HB8 on wednesday.
The law declares that “parents have the fundamental right to make decisions regarding the upbringing, education, and upbringing of their children.”
Blaze News previously reported that the law would go into effect 90 days after ratification.
- Requires that any sexual content “be age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate for the students being taught.”
- Parents can review educational materials that deal with sexuality in advance and give their children the opportunity to opt out if they wish.
- Require parents to be promptly notified of any major changes to their child's services at school, such as a request for a student to identify as a member of the opposite sex.
- Prevent schools from interfering with parents' access to their children's education and health records.
- Completely prohibit school district officials from encouraging children to divulge information from their parents.
- Requires school boards to adopt policies that allow students to attend religious education courses off school grounds as long as parents consent, arrange transportation, and pay associated costs. and
- We will seek parental consent before providing medical services of any kind to students, except for emergencies, first aid, and other services required by state law.
“I think the rationale for that is, if you're a parent, you want to know what's going on in your child's life,” DeWine said Wednesday.
reported buckeye frame. “Parents are the best teachers.”
“There was opposition from educators and the LGBTQ+ community as well.”
“It's important that we don't have to worry about it,” said Aaron Baer, president of the Center for Christian Virtue, an advocacy group that supports the bill, which was sponsored by Republican state Reps. DJ Swearingen and Sarah Carruthers.
said “HB 8 protects children by protecting parents' rights to make important decisions for their children,” a statement after HB 8's ratification said.
Meanwhile, LGBT activist groups did not take the news well.
“Governor DeWine passed HB 8 amid opposition from educators and the LGBTQ+ community alike,” said Dwayne Steward, executive director of Equality Ohio, an activist group apparently committed to continued secrecy. I'm very disappointed that I signed it because it punishes teachers and staff.” We support LGBTQ+ students who are already targets of bullying and harassment. ”
By “educators,” Steward appears to have been referring, at least in part, to the left-wing Ohio Education Association, the state-level affiliate of the National Education Association.
opposed law.
The cross-dressing activist group TransOhio expressed sadness at DeWine's signing of the bill.
hinting at The Parents' Bill of Rights was a “hateful law” aimed at “silencing, erasing, and harming” cross-dressers.
Asked Wednesday whether the law would result in the outing of non-heterosexual students, DeWine said, “We love these students just as we love other students.'' Not only are they welcome in Ohio, they are welcome in our schools.” We want to protect them the same way we protect other students, but I believe it is the parents who can help the child. ”
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