In 19-1 vote, the Alaska State Senate passed a bill on April 10 that seeks to empower educational bureaucrats with the authority to craft and implement mental health guidelines for all public school students.
The lone legislator to vote against the bill was Sen. Cathy Tilton (R-Wasilla).
While supporters of Senate Bill 41 say it will help in “normalizing discussions around mental health,” critics have warned that it could easily pave the way for educators to push topics like gender identity, sexual orientation, systemic racism, DEI and more – all under the guise of “mental health.”
Pushed by Democrat Senators Elvi Gray-Jackson, Forrest Dunbar, Loki Tobin, Scott Kawasaki, and left-leaning Republican Cathy Giessel, SB 41 directs the Alaska Education Board to develop mental health education guidelines for K-12 public schools. While it includes parental notice requirements, these are opt-out policies, not opt-in, meaning kids will undergo this education unless parents proactively pull them from class.
The bill now goes to the State House for consideration.
Introduced last year, the bill has raised concerns from parental rights advocates who warn that it could be used to push controversial ideologies that run contrary to traditional family values. Others have argued that mental health should be addressed by parents, not tacked on to a struggling government educational system that is already failing to teach basic reading and math skills to the vast majority of Alaska students.
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First off, I’ll be having a talk with my Senator, Senator Meyers, who supported the passage of this Bill. Second, I’ll remind him that we send our children to school for reading writing, and arithmetic, or the standard basic education, not indoctrination. Third, Once again you are infringing, and removing parents right to make their own parental choices in regard to their children’s education. This is just another encroachment of parental rights, with more government intrusion. Parents are choosing to home school or put their kids into private schools to escape this kind of encroachment. You’re having to close schools because of low enrollment, yet you continue to do the things that have driven them away from conventional schools. It’s time to WAKE UP!
I am reminded of the puppet movie Dark Crystal when all the elite powers sucked the life out of the youth. seems the Alaska legistlature is trying to own education ao they can suck the life out of our youth.
These Senator’s who voted for this are the mental ones.
We as parents are the ones to raise our children, not these woke schools.
This Bill gives access to our minor children for health issues. It is an intrusive on family rights as per Mirabelli v. Bonta March2, 2026 “Parents-not the state-have primary authority with respect to the upbringing and education of children. The leftists in the legislature are following a different ideology that ignores family and traditional values and replaces the Biblical Worldview with the secular(atheist) worldview. These legislators are breaking the law by overstepping their role and replacing the business of the family and God’s moral law given by Scripture with the state government. These legislators have no clue as to what children need and do not need. Laws such as this one are not neutral and they are anti-Christian and based on the religiion on humanism which is promoted by the NEA and the philosophy is a failed on by Karl Marx. Karl Marx hated God. In history his kind of thinking caused the deaths of thousands of precious human beings. through slaughters and genocides. Is that the kind of ideology our children should have? Once again “man’s corrupt, ignorant ideas are trying to replace God’s Perfect Laws as promoted successfully by Western Christian Civilization. This is God-centered and is what our Founding Fathers used when creating our patriotic, documents such as the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, US Constitution, the Ten Commandments,… which should be studied in all classrooms in the U.S. God is love through Jesus Christ and secularism spreads is hate.
What a collection of suck.
That is one scary looking woman… and she’s culturally appropriating the hair color.
I am all for mental health education especially if it’s biblically based such as In the excellent book series “ Boundaries” !!