Georgia’s HB268 Threatens Parental Rights with Speech Crackdowns and Child Surveillance

Rhon­da Thomas of truthineducation.org warns that Georgia’s HB268, fol­low­ing HB1013 and HB520, crim­i­nal­izes stu­dent and par­ent speech, risk­ing felony charges, while enabling school sur­veil­lance and data-shar­ing with law enforce­ment and agen­cies like DFACS and DHS. Labeled as pre­dic­tive polic­ing, it under­mines parental rights, poten­tial­ly sep­a­rat­ing fam­i­lies, and screens kids for diag­noses like dyslex­ia to gen­er­ate fund­ing, despite vague word­ing. Thomas argues it exac­er­bates men­tal health issues by fos­ter­ing fear and chaos in schools, con­di­tion­ing a “soft gen­er­a­tion” to rely on gov­ern­ment over par­ents or church­es. With a March 6 crossover dead­line, she urges imme­di­ate calls to the House Edu­ca­tion Com­mit­tee to stop it. Con­tact: info@truthineducation.org for more infor­ma­tion.

• BKP speaks to Rhon­da Thomas, truthineducation.org
• The law­mak­ers have been try­ing to push men­tal health for years with HB1013, HB520 and now HB268.
• Crim­i­nal­izes speech. The stu­dent could face felony charges for what they are say­ing in schools, online, in pub­lic spaces. Par­ents could be pun­ished for what they say. 
• Sur­veil­lance on our chil­dren and share the infor­ma­tion with law enforce­ment. It is pre­dic­tive polic­ing. What hap­pens when you label a child as a threat. The child will be silent and stig­ma­tized. 
• As we fight to pass par­ent rights, this bill destroys parental rights. 
• Legal author­i­ty can eas­i­ly be grant­ed away from the par­ent. It will allow the agen­cies to barge into the fam­i­ly and sep­a­rate the par­ents from the chil­dren. The schools will be able to share the infor­ma­tion with DFACS and DHS. 
• DOE and Depart­ment of Behav­ioral Health fall under­neath the DOD. 
• The bill is very vague. 
• We are screen­ing our chil­dren for every­thing. Once the bill passed there are 3 lev­els. Every­one pre­dicts screen­ing and labelling our chil­dren. Those labels are diag­noses. They are screen­ing a lot of chil­dren for Dyslex­ia, the data is sent out to orga­ni­za­tions. Labels bring mon­ey. 
• Most leg­is­la­tors don’t read the bills, they don’t have the time to read the bills they trust the spon­sors. They don’t know the bills, they have their talk­ing points. There is a much sim­pler way to keep stu­dents safe rather than track­ing the chil­dren and label­ing them. How is this going to stop men­tal health? 
• Once we brought into the schools the social agen­da, it is caus­ing the behav­ior, bul­ly­ing, anx­i­ety and the method­olo­gies into the school. Then you add this that they are afraid of what they will do and say, it will cause more harm. 
• Our chil­dren are not accom­plish­ing any­thing because the teach­ers are dumb­ing them down. They don’t have any con­trol over the child. The sys­tem is set up for chaos in the school sys­tem and allows a soft gen­er­a­tion. They will not know how to han­dle a dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tion. There is a slow con­di­tion­ing to lean on the gov­ern­ment. The church­es used to help fill the gap but they have stepped aside and allowed the gov­ern­ment to fill the void. Every­thing was work­ing in the direc­tion of push­ing the chil­dren into gov­ern­ment care and not parental care. 
• Sta­tus of HB268, March 6th is crossover day. WE have a very short win­dow of time. We need mass calls to the House edu­ca­tion com­mit­tee and your leg­is­la­ture. Needs to be phone calls. Email Rhon­da at info@truthineducation.org for more infor­ma­tion. 

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