With an account, as adopted in Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia, state officials deposit a portion of a child’s funds from the state education formula (or a separate appropriation) in a private account that parents use to buy education products and services for their children.6 Though savings account laws vary slightly from state to state,. [...] Even before the precipitous decline in student performance in math and reading the followed the COVID-19 pandemic, a decline reasonably attributed to the prolonged gap in in-person learning for millions of students across the country, average student performance was falling. [...] For example, in 2021, Florida officials expanded the state’s parental bill of rights to include additional policy areas, and lawmakers expanded the provisions again in 2022.35 The new provisions prohibit teaching students about the ambiguous concepts of “gender” and “gender fluidity” in grades kindergarten through third grade, which is not age-appropriate content for students in these grades. [...] We need to know more about the population being referred and outcomes…. There is lack of consensus and open discussion about the nature of gender dysphoria and therefore about the appropriate clinical response.43 A highly regarded children’s hospital in Sweden has also discontinued the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for patients under the age of 18, and Sweden’s National Board of H. [...] Luby et al., “Preschool Is a Sensitive Period for the Influence of Maternal Support on the Trajectory of Hippocampal Development,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, April 25, 2016, (accessed December 20, 2022).
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