[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 8, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H1198]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           PARENTS HAVE SACRED ROLE IN RAISING THEIR CHILDREN

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, parents have a God-given right and role in 
the raising of their children.
  When they send their kids to the public schools, they expect the 
schools to deliver a quality education to their children in order to 
prepare them for success in the future. Unfortunately, government 
schools have abused this trust and have been indoctrinating children 
with far-left lies and poisoning their minds with woke gender ideology.
  School administrators and teachers unions seem to think they own 
America's children, that they alone have the right to decide what these 
children think and believe, and that they alone should be the sole 
authority in a child's life.
  Schools across this country have been caught trying to convince 
vulnerable teenagers that their bodies are wrong, filling their heads 
with lies and convincing them to see their parents as enemies. This 
line of thinking is morally wrong.
  In my own district, a school district is being sued by a parent for 
secretly changing her daughter's pronouns and identity without her 
parent's knowledge or consent. Woke administrators have no moral 
authority to experiment with children's minds in this way.
  Parents have a moral right to be involved in their children's 
education and should never be kept in the dark about issues that their 
child is going through at school.
  Congress must take action to enshrine parental rights over their 
children.

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