Georgia state lawmakers are taking up several education-based measures in public schools. Those measures include limiting transgender students’ participation in sports, banning attempts to enforce a mask mandate, making it easier for parents to get books banned in libraries and forbidding educators from teaching certain race-based curricula.
On Friday, the state Senate passed SB 377. It bans nine so-called “divisive concepts” from being taught in schools.
“A teacher should not tell a child that because of their race, skin color or ethnicity that they should feel guilty,” said Bo Hatchett the bill’s sponsor.
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