Pennsylvania State Senators to Pitch Parental Rights Protection Act in Upcoming Hearing

From potty training to high school graduation, it used to go without saying that parents had ultimate authority over how to raise their own children. Parents impart nutritional and health habits such as limiting sugar and setting a bedtime. Parents teach social, emotional, and religious values such as how to treat people with respect or when to start dating.

But in recent years parents have found themselves in conflict with public schools, which have gone beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic to teaching values previously reserved for parents.

“If the last three years have taught us anything, it’s that we can no longer take for granted the assumed rights we hold as parents and guardians. The COVID-19 pandemic showed us just how far the government will go to intervene in the health and welfare of our children,” Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano told The Epoch Times.

Mastriano is the Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor.

“Universal masking and discriminatory quarantine policies left millions of kids behind socially and academically. Now the Department of Education has given schools a pass to push radical gender ideology and sexually inappropriate content to children as young as 5, and when parents ask questions or dare to object, they’re equated to domestic terrorists,” he said. “It shouldn’t be controversial to say parents should direct and guide the upbringing, education, and health care of their kids. But that’s the path progressive ideology has led us down.”… (Excerpt from The Epoch Times)