South Carolina public schools are under attack.

H.4757 is being sold as a “Parental Rights Act,” but buried in the bill is language that explicitly lists released-time religious instruction as a protected parental right.

In other words, lawmakers are not just talking about parents in general. They are elevating school-day religious release inside a statewide parental-rights framework. And this is not happening in isolation.

South Carolina lawmakers have also introduced separate released-time bills, including H.3260 and H.752, that would require districts to adopt policies authorizing students to be excused for religious instruction.

That should alarm every parent, educator, and community member who believes public schools should be secular, inclusive, and free from religious favoritism.

This is how normalization happens:
religious instruction gets folded into state policy,
school-day religious release gets treated as something public schools are expected to accommodate,
and church-state lines get pushed further and further until eventually…people stop noticing.

South Carolina is not seeing one random bill.
It is seeing a broader effort to push religion further into the structure of public education.

👉Your “Parental rights end where they begin to undermine every child’s right to a secular, inclusive public education.

Article for reference:
https://www.wrdw.com/2026/03/12/sc-leaders-gather-urge-passing-parental-bill-rights/

You can read the full text of all three bills below:
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/prever/4757_20260219.htm

https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/3260.htm

https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/752.htm

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