Mary Clauson, Catholic parent activist

This week’s episode featured Part Two of our conversation with Catholic parent activist Mary Clauson. Following up on last week’s discussion of radical sex education and school obscenity, Mary explained the problems with school - based clinics and the overall “therapeutic” model of education – which treats children as patients rather than students. She also highlighted some good legislation pending in the Georgia State Senate (protecting children’s well - being and parental rights). Finally, she offered practical advice on what parents can do to protect their kids in schools.

Resources

• Protect Student Health Georgia website
• Protect Child Health Coalition website
• Legislation - HB 173 - mandatory pre-K/kindergarten
• Legislation - HB 174 - information on adolescent vaccinations
• Legislation - HB 177 - sex education – “age-appropriate,” consent
• Legislation - HB 141 - universal suicide screenings for ages 8 and up
• Legislation - SB 88 - child & parental protection
• Article: “Parents beware. Georgia’s student health survey is invasive and insidious”
• “Social-Emotional Learning: K-12 Education as New Age Nanny State” study from Pioneer Institute Public Policy Research
• Chart comparing types of sex education, comprehensive vs. abstinence-based sex education