Governor Reeves calls for Mississippi to establish a Parents’ Bill of Rights

Reeves needs the Mississippi Legislature to acknowledge parental authority over their youngsters’s lives and schooling.

On Tuesday, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves launched his Fiscal 12 months 2024 Govt Finances Advice, which notes a few of his prime priorities. Among the priorities embody eliminating the earnings tax, decreasing healthcare prices, and giving Mississippi youngsters a first-rate schooling. 

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Among the many Governor’s proposals within the FY 2024 EBR, Reeves known as for Mississippi to determine a Mother and father’ Invoice of Rights that acknowledges parental authority over their youngsters’s lives and schooling.

Governor Reeves stated that in relation to schooling, it’s the state of Mississippi who solutions to folks, not vice versa.

“In Mississippi, we consider it’s dad and mom who’ve the ultimate say of their youngster’s schooling, not the state,” Reeves stated. “As I said in my 2022 State of the State handle, it’s stunning to me that in some corners of the nation, the fundamental proper of oldsters to find out their youngster’s schooling is ignored. Mother and father’ voices shouldn’t simply be heard, it must be sought. It ought to reign. So long as I’m governor, it at all times will.”

The Mississippi Governor said that too many college districts throughout the nation have usurped the function of oldsters and decreed that they’ll impose new controversial, experimental social science experiments on youngsters over the objections of oldsters.

“On selections surrounding the utilization of names, pronouns, or well being issues, colleges have an obligation to stick to the need of oldsters,” Reeves continued. “It’s dad and mom who’ve the final word duty for elevating their youngsters as they see match. There is no such thing as a place in our colleges for insurance policies that drive college students or lecturers to check with a baby by a reputation or pronoun that fails to correspond with the organic intercourse on the kid’s official report.”

Governor Reeves stated he believes it to be solely antithetical to the ideas of the America’s founding and constitutional rights for any authorities entity, together with a public college, to infringe upon the sincerely held non secular beliefs of oldsters, college students, or lecturers.

“The First Modification enshrines free speech and non secular freedom as essentially protected rights,” Reeves stated. “I refuse to permit our colleges to fall prey to the intolerant pattern during which people are pressured to affirm concepts or an ideology that runs counter to their private beliefs. Our colleges are supposed to present an schooling. In Mississippi, we’ll give attention to the basics like math, science, civics, studying, and writing.”

“Within the upcoming session, the Mississippi Legislature ought to set up a Mother and father’ Invoice of Rights that acknowledges parental authority over their youngsters’s lives and schooling,” Reeves concluded.