Tennessee bill to require schools to teach 'success sequence' of life path passes Senate

[Emile]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Republican-sponsored bill to require public schools to teach students the positive outcomes associated with following a “success sequence,” which includes first getting married, then having children, passed the Tennessee Senate Thursday, but not everyone agreed that life follows a perfect checklist.

The bill, called the “Success Sequence Act,” would require schools to teach students the positive outcomes associated with completing the following in the following order: graduate high school, enter the workforce or go to college, get married, and then have children.

Sen. Janice Bowling (R-Tullahoma), the bill’s sponsor, argued in most cases, those who follow the “success sequence” statistically experience better outcomes than those who don’t.

“Children raised by married parents are twice as likely to graduate from college than children who are not, children not raised in a home with married parents are twice as likely to end up in jail or prison before reaching 30 years of age. Children raised by a single parent are three times as likely to live in poverty than married parents,” Sen. Bowling said.

Read more at: https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/tn-bill-success-sequence-of-life-path-passes-senate/

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1. Exhibit One to challenge "The Success Sequence"

51 years ago, my friend married a woman who has essentially ruined his life.

She targeted him because he lacked the will to challenge her.

He married her. Two children were not planned. They are adults now. The children have married poor choices of spouses. The children have had children. One set is living in abject poverty and neglect. The other set is plain ignored by their parents. One child is looking at an impending divorce with plans to marry another woman ASAP. The other child has cancer and is siphoning the dwindling retirement funds of my friend due to improvident investments.

My friend's wife is dominant in the relationship and that's despite her being confined to a wheelchair, losing her teeth, and nearly blind with cataracts. Since the advent of their "marriage", she has literally screamed at him, berated him, debased him. And made sure his children with her disrespected him. (His son recently stated he expected his parents to be gone soon.)

He gave up a chance to leave a bad marriage early on and start over, but lacked the will to leave, especially after the children came.

His life is a misery and he followed the "Success Sequence".

[Emile]

2. I had a friend who's husband cheated on her. She goes out

and has an affair to get back at him. They had a young boy around age 3 at home when all this went down. They ended up staying together in their unhappy marriage and continued to cheat on each other. Their son committed suicide at age 16. The husband died from COVID a few years ago.

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3. Exhibit 2