For the past two years, state Rep. Ed Oliver (R-Dadeville) has sought to ban the teaching of certain “divisive concepts” in K-12 classrooms and other spaces.

These efforts failed in the face of obstacles, particularly in the Senate.

But Oliver told a far-right radio show last week that he intended to pass the bill in the next Congress within the first two weeks.

“The people who passed the bill in the Senate last year have given me confidence and reassurance that this bill will pass,” Oliver said on the Jeff Poor show. “There's going to be all kinds of pressure from everywhere to pass this bill in the first week or two of Congress.”

During its initial consideration, the bill suffered delays in the House, taking three committee meetings before the group passed it in less than a minute in a small, non-streamed committee room.

Despite improvements in the House last session, progress in the Senate continued to be problematic.

But Oliver said the bill actually starts in the Senate under Sen. Will Barfoot, R-Pike Road.

“I don't know anyone who wants the government to sexualize or politicize children,” Oliver told Poor, who also runs the far-right website 1819 News. .

Oliver's rationale behind the bill had been tossed around for years because it was similar to national Republican bills opposing critical race theory in classrooms at the time.

But Oliver has occasionally focused on the Protecting Children from Marxism bill, which currently talks about the sexualization of children, even though there was no language in the bill that dealt with the subject in the past. speaking. Instead, Oliver seems to be injecting language from a neighboring push to ban libraries from offering certain books to minors, often drawing boundaries between sexual and LGBTQ content. The lines become blurred.

Oliver also lamented that “a third of classes” at the state's flagship universities teach “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

“I don't think that kind of education prepares you for anything other than people being at odds and not understanding how the real world works,” Oliver says.

Instead, Oliver said classes should prepare students for engineering and other jobs, rather than turning them into “left-wing revolutionaries.”

Oliver confirmed that he would revive the bill in some form, but the bill has not been pre-filed and it is unclear how its language will ultimately compare to previous bills.