WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:08.1840000" NOTE recognizability:0.856 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.844796 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.976 Talking we are going to begin on this NOTE Confidence: 0.844796 00:00:02.976 --> 00:00:05.580 Tuesday at the Statehouse tonight. NOTE Confidence: 0.844796 00:00:05.580 --> 00:00:08.905 This was the third time house lawmakers NOTE Confidence: 0.844796 00:00:08.905 --> 00:00:11.853 heard public testimony on a 5 different NOTE Confidence: 0.844796 00:00:11.853 --> 00:00:14.610 bills that could limit what is taught NOTE Confidence: 0.844796 00:00:14.610 --> 00:00:17.700 in South Carolina schools in particular. NOTE Confidence: 0.844796 00:00:17.700 --> 00:00:20.206 Those topics about race and gender so NOTE Confidence: 0.844796 00:00:20.206 --> 00:00:23.177 News 19's Becky Buds is at the statehouse NOTE Confidence: 0.844796 00:00:23.177 --> 00:00:25.837 with where these bills stand and the NOTE Confidence: 0.844796 00:00:25.837 --> 00:00:28.130 arguments from both sides. At the NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:28.130 --> 00:00:28.920 Statehouse Tuesday, NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:30.895 final public testimony on five NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:30.895 --> 00:00:33.184 bills which could change what is NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:33.184 --> 00:00:34.924 taught in South Carolina schools. NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:34.930 --> 00:00:37.471 Some of the bills would ban the NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:37.471 --> 00:00:39.470 teaching of critical race theory, NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:39.470 --> 00:00:41.720 which the State Department of Education NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:41.720 --> 00:00:44.000 says is not taught in schools. NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:46.646 They would also ban discussion on race, NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:46.650 --> 00:00:48.540 gender, sexuality and current events, NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:48.540 --> 00:00:50.425 civil rights and education groups NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:50.425 --> 00:00:51.933 strongly oppose the bills, NOTE Confidence: 0.9259458 00:00:51.940 --> 00:00:53.448 calling them anti truth. NOTE Confidence: 0.64484036 00:00:55.220 --> 00:00:59.010 Education on our school teachers. NOTE Confidence: 0.64484036 00:00:59.010 --> 00:01:00.670 So they would feel uncomfortable NOTE Confidence: 0.64484036 00:01:00.670 --> 00:01:03.018 in the classroom and not teach our NOTE Confidence: 0.64484036 00:01:03.018 --> 00:01:04.896 students what they really need to NOTE Confidence: 0.8441453 00:01:04.900 --> 00:01:06.530 know, and they worry more. NOTE Confidence: 0.8441453 00:01:06.530 --> 00:01:08.000 Educators will leave the profession NOTE Confidence: 0.8441453 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:10.270 at a time when the state is NOTE Confidence: 0.8441453 00:01:10.270 --> 00:01:11.758 seeing record teacher shortages. NOTE Confidence: 0.84270672 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:13.088 They're fearful that they. NOTE Confidence: 0.84270672 00:01:13.088 --> 00:01:15.080 Gonna get in trouble for reading NOTE Confidence: 0.84270672 00:01:15.142 --> 00:01:16.887 books about Martin Luther King. NOTE Confidence: 0.84270672 00:01:16.890 --> 00:01:18.535 They're fearful that they can't NOTE Confidence: 0.84270672 00:01:18.535 --> 00:01:20.180 decorate their doors for Black NOTE Confidence: 0.84270672 00:01:20.236 --> 00:01:21.670 History Month. They're fearful NOTE Confidence: 0.8421836 00:01:21.670 --> 00:01:23.340 and quite frankly, they're ready NOTE Confidence: 0.8421836 00:01:23.340 --> 00:01:25.420 to leave sponsors of the bills. NOTE Confidence: 0.8421836 00:01:25.420 --> 00:01:27.105 Representative RJ May and Stewart NOTE Confidence: 0.8421836 00:01:27.105 --> 00:01:29.181 Jones say these bills are about NOTE Confidence: 0.8421836 00:01:29.181 --> 00:01:30.811 transparency and giving parents a NOTE Confidence: 0.8421836 00:01:30.811 --> 00:01:32.920 say in what their child learns. NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:35.250 --> 00:01:36.900 With something their child is NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:36.900 --> 00:01:38.550 being taught, then there's a. NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:38.550 --> 00:01:39.870 There's a problem there. NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:39.870 --> 00:01:41.190 This is about education, NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:41.190 --> 00:01:41.850 not indoctrination. NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:41.850 --> 00:01:44.160 We need to take control of our NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:44.160 --> 00:01:45.568 classrooms. The Education Committee NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:45.568 --> 00:01:47.680 will hold several more meetings on NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:47.730 --> 00:01:49.440 these bills before voting on them. NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:49.440 --> 00:01:50.868 Representative may says he's NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:50.868 --> 00:01:53.010 confident the bills will pass the NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:53.070 --> 00:01:54.960 House floor if they make it out NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:54.960 --> 00:01:56.700 of committee at the statehouse. NOTE Confidence: 0.88171405 00:01:56.700 --> 00:01:59.590 Becky Buds News 19 WLTX. Well, NOTE Confidence: 0.8634792 00:01:59.590 --> 00:02:01.615 Representative Jones says if the NOTE Confidence: 0.8634792 00:02:01.615 --> 00:02:03.949 bills don't pass, he will explore NOTE Confidence: 0.8634792 00:02:03.949 --> 00:02:05.814 other avenues like budget amendments NOTE Confidence: 0.8634792 00:02:05.814 --> 00:02:08.182 to pass that similar legislation.