Arizona lawmaker wants to strike mental health lessons from school curriculum

The coverage treats “mental health lessons” as an obvious good, and anyone questioning them as indifferent to kids. That framing skips over what parents actually see: vague curricula, activist jargon, and schools drifting into territory that belongs to families and doctors.

A classroom is not a clinic. When schools normalize self-diagnosis or train teachers to act like counselors, they risk mislabeling ordinary stress, undermining parental judgment, and exposing children’s private struggles to bureaucratic systems. Conservatives are not denying anxiety exists. We are asking who decides what is taught, and with what safeguards.

This is about parental authority, age-appropriate education, and public trust in institutions that already struggle with basic academics. If schools want to help, they can focus on clear referrals, transparency, and consent, not mandatory ideological modules. The principle is simple: education has limits, and protecting children requires respecting them.