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House Education approves a bill to repeal state laws requiring educators to teach students about CPR, eating disorders, adoption and substance abuse and more. Instead, BESE would decide if they should be taught Rosepine Representative Charles Owens is the author of the legislation..
“I believe in passing those things over to BESE. To trusting those things to BESE. And let them decide what needs to go on inside of our classrooms.”
Owens says for teachers to teach these type of lessons, they have to be trained. He says instead of state lawmakers deciding if these are worthy subjects, leave it up to the state’s top school board, BESE…
“And for them at their appropriate time decide the frequency of this training, the utility of this training, and what training will be done inside of our schools.”
Owens wants to limit disruptions so that teachers can focus on classroom instruction.
“I want to empower our teachers. I want the school day to be a place where the teachers are there to teach and we empower them to the greatest extent possible.”
The bill now advances to the House.
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