John Rutherford: “Today Congress passed legislation that guarantees parents have a right to be involved in their children's education and…”

“Today Congress passed legislation that guarantees parents have a right to be involved in their children's education and to hold their school administrators accountable. At face value, this should not be a controversial bill. Yet, it passed with a slim majority of 213-208. It is a parents' bill of rights. Yet, 203 of my Democratic colleagues voted against affirming parental involvement in a child's education. I would say I am surprised, but this opposition is just more of what we have already seen from Democrat leaders and the White House over the last 2 years. A campaign against parents, characterized by unnecessary school closures, masks in the classrooms, DOJ repressing parents' rights to participate in school board meetings, and an effort to label concerned parents as domestic terrorists. What do we have to show for 2 years of this kind of ``leadership''? Reports of historic learning losses and higher levels of anxiety and depression in our school-aged children. The fact that we even need legislation like this further proves how far we have come in this country. It is an unfortunate reality that there are individuals across this Nation actively questioning a parent's right to know what their child is exposed to in the classroom.…”