This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, March 30th, 2023.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The US House has passed a Parents Bill of Rights, one problem.

It's unconstitutional.

Cato's Neil McCluskey details why Congress decided to jump into what ought to be considered

state and local fights over education transparency.

Why has Congress waited into this issue of so-called Parents Bill of Rights?

And I have to, as an aside, I have to say, we've got a Bill of Rights, we should probably

enforce that one before we start granting other ones.

Why is Congress getting involved with trying to give parents specific powers with respect to

schooling?

Why Congress does things is always a bit of a tricky question in that lots of different members

of Congress I'm sure have different motivations.

What we can say is we had a Parents's bill of rights that actually introduced last session of Congress, well,

2021. This coincided, at least, with the election of Glen

Juncken in Virginia.

Many people believe that Glen Youngen won his election,

which was a bit, he was a bit of a dark horse,

because his opponent essentially said that parents

shouldn't be making decisions about what happens in schools and that seemed to be

a turning point in the election and that Glenn Youngkin became Governor Youngkin because he was supportive of empowering parents in some way in education and certainly was not a fan of dismissing them as hey you

people send your kids to these schools but you shouldn't have a say in what

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