The Tennessee House of Representatives bills depicted here and the Senate will require schools to teach their children the “success sequence” where marriage should come before birth.
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Tennessee public schools may be needed immediately to teach “sequences of success.” The key to future success is graduating from high school. They either participate in the workforce or pursue post-secondary education. I have children since I got married. The state joins others across the country who introduce controversial education ideas laws.
The Capitol approved the 73-20 bill on Monday and sent the law to Republican Bill Lee’s desk for his signature. The Tennessee Senate previously passed the bill by 25-5 votes.
Educators should teach success sequences as part of their family life education from 2026 to 27.
The governor of Utah recently signed a similar law. Several states including Mississippi, Kentucky, Texas, Ohio This year we introduced bills related to success sequences.
The success sequence was popularized in the early 2000s by researchers who argued that this path of life would provide a better economic outlook for adulthood. Critics argue that quality education, housing and access to infrastructure, such as it places a burden on individuals rather than structures that promote poverty.
Research from the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in 2021 It turns out that 76% of US parents support teaching sequencing.
The 2020 report, contracted by the Department of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration, is Relationships between these individual milestones – Education, full-time employment, marriage before children – Lower poverty rates. However, the report found that further investigation is needed to be made as to whether sequences cause this success. Additionally, this report found relatively few studies examining the entire sequence.
More recently, the success sequence has become a touchstone for a conservative education policy circle, promoted by Ian Low, the founder of the Charter School, a senior fellow at AEI. US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon’s first official K-12 school visit was a visit to the charter school in Row, New York City In March.
Many of the bill’s languages are consistent Modeling Methods from the Heritage FoundationThe conservative think tank that released Project 2025, a policy plan built to rebuild the US government.
Sponsored by Brentwood Rep. Gino Bruso bill.
“Nuclear families have been proven to be the best antidote we have in society to avoid poverty,” Bruso said in a previous discussion about the bill.
Nashville Democrat Aftyn Behn tried to add language to teach economic barriers that prevented students from completing the sequence, but no modifications were taken into consideration.
“What you’re trying to do is refuse to acknowledge the diversity and plurality of human experience,” she said. “(This bill) ignores the real barriers faced by people, including millennial women.”
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