Tonight, one local representative wants to make sure parents know what their children are learning inside of our schools. Representative Jerry Carl says under a proposed bill, parents will get a say in what books their children are reading, and what curriculum is being taught. Parents I spoke with say they're all for it because they say their voices deserve to be heard.

"I feel like as parents, we have a right and responsibility to be heard," says Marie Budinich, she has a child that is a freshman at Davidson High School.

"It's sad to say that we even have to come up with a bill to explain what the rights are for parents dealing with the school systems," says Alabama Representative, Jerry Carl.

It's called the Parent's Bill of Rights Act and Representative Jerry Carl is pushing hard for it to get passed.

"It's a commonsense bill. It gives parents the rights to ask questions about their student's, their children, to look at the curriculum that they're being taught, to look at the books that they're being taught from," says Carl.

Carl says it's important for parents to have a voice on sensitive subjects.

"For example, I ordered a large group of books to be donated in one of the schools in my district, and when we got the books and looked through them, these were for 3rd and 2nd graders, and a lot of the books had to deal with identifying your sex and a lot of trans issues," says Carl.

Christina Hawkins is a parent who I spoke with today as she was picking up her senior student at Davidson says she's in support of it.

"We entrust these people with our children every day and their education is important, and I think every household that has a child in school should have some kind of say on how their child is being taught and what their child is being taught," says Hawkins.

She says sometimes parents who are invested in their child's education get a bad rep.

"Sometimes we're treated like we don't know what we're talking about and it's not our place because we're not the educator, but they're our children," says Hawkins.

Marie Budinich says this is something parents need now more than ever.

"There are some parts of the curriculum that are very concerning, and I feel like as parents we need to have the ability to know what's going on in the classroom, what's being taught," says Budinich.

However not everyone is on board. Including Florida Representative Matt Gaetz.

"I don't want congress more involved in the decisions in local school districts. I want the congress less involved and where there are places, they're pushing woke ideology or bad curriculum, I don't actually think it’s appropriate for the federal government to step in. I think local communities have to stand up and fight," says Gaetz.

This bill is expected to be introduced sometime this week.