Tennessee schools could soon include a four -stage plan of success in family life education lessons.
The plan? In this order: High school grade, get a job or continue post -secondary studies, get married and take children.
Representative Gino Bulso, the bill of the bill, said on the House floor on Monday that data supports the objective of the bill. He cited a 2021 report by the Conservative Reflection Group American Enterprise Institute, which said that 76% of parents support the teaching of the success sequence, based on a survey by the American life in -law center at AEI.
The Ministry of Health and Social Services also published a 60 -page report in 2020 on the success sequence. The report indicates that research suggests ending the school, finding a job and getting married before having children “can increase the chances of escaping poverty and reaching the middle class as an adult”.
Some democratic legislators of Tennessee say that it is not so simple and postponed against the adoption of the bill. The AFTYN Behn representative declared during the remarks on the soil of the Chamber that the bill “ignores and blame the real barriers with which people are confronted”.
“I just wanted to add a few clauses that consider economic obstacles, such as students debt, increase in childcare costs and paid family holidays and all their policies that prevent the continuum you express in this bill,” said Behn.
More than 40 million Americans hold 1.7 billion of dollars of student debt, which was an obstacle to college for certain high school graduates. Business Insider also spoke to mothers of generation Y who want children but who cannot afford it due to the debt of students and the increase in childcare costs.
Another democratic representative Gloria Johnson said: “As an educator, I think it is really important that we teach the characteristics and skills that children will have to succeed. We cannot teach them to be privileged. We cannot teach them to fold these circumstances to succeed.”
The senator of Tennessee Janice Bowling, who sponsored the version of the Senate of the bill which was adopted last week, told the Senate that she knew that not everyone gets married.
“I know people who are very expensive who went to university, have graduated, never married, and they live a very successful and happy life, but if it is to your extent to get married, then you must get married, then have children,” she said.
The Tennessee bill is now heading for the governor’s office to be signed and will take effect for the 2026-27 school year. Other states have also presented similar bills – Ohio, Utah, Kentucky and Mississippi are among the states that push to obtain the success sequence taught in classrooms.
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