>>There’s a great commotion among family and religious groups over the governor’s signing of SB 777 by Senator Sheila Kuehl. It is titled the “California Student Civil Rights Act” and purports to guard children from instruction or activities that “promote a discriminatory bias” on the basis of a long list of criteria including religion, gender, sexual orientation, nationality or ethnicity.<<
If we are gonna keep discussing this bill we have got to get better sources.
Like the article that said it banned the words mom and dad - but that isn’;t in the bill..
Now, I did a search and the word bias isn’t in the bill either.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0751-0800/sb_777_bill_20070223_introduced.pdf
Look again, in the chaptered bill, not the introduced one. Here's just one instance:
"SEC. 29. Section 51500 of the Education Code is amended to read: 51500. No teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school district sponsor any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias because of a characteristic listed in Section 220."
The word “bias” is used four times in the new law, as chaptered.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0751-0800/sb_777_bill_20071012_chaptered.html