SENATOR KELLY UNVEILS DETAILS OF MUTANT REGISTRY BILL ON NATIONAL TEACHER APPRECIATION DAY ORLANDO, FL (July 7)-- After participating in Teacher Appreciation Day at Roseland Elementary School, Senator Kelly unveiled the details of his Mutant Registry Bill to an assembly of faculty members, counselors and school administrators. Kelly took special care to highlight the points of his bill that would directly impact teachers and public schools. In particular, he stressed his plans to increase school safety by empowering individual teachers to evaluate and remove genetically enhanced students from their classrooms. This point was part of a larger provision that would increase school accountability for the safety and well being of its students. "The role of the educator is to care for students and to ensure their constitutional right to learn in a safe environment," Kelly told the packed auditorium. "Educators and school officials have an implicit contract to teach and to protect their students. My proposed Mutant Registry Authority, or MRA, would help teachers make good on this promise." Kelly's controversial bill includes the allocation of additional federal funds to schools with increased MRA compliance. Though many teachers expressed reluctance at the idea of having to "police" their classrooms, many more were relieved at the prospect of having legal recourse to deal with those students deemed difficult or intimidating. "Finally, someone has chosen to take a realistic look at what we teachers are up against these days," says one Roseland fourth-grade instructor. "It's hard enough with guns and your run-of-the-mill discipline problems. It's another thing all together to have children with genetically enhanced abilities disrupting our classrooms." Senator Kelly's bill only loosely defines "increased teacher authority," but it is expected that most schools will adopt similar hard-line policies, all of which will include provisions for the DNA testing of students deemed dangerous, or those expelled on previous discipline complaints. The vast majority of schools will likely implement policies authorizing teachers and/or school officials to permanently expel children that DNA-test positive for advanced mutation. Although Kelly's bill would only affect federally funded schools, many private schools would likely follow suit with similar policies of their own. The Mutant Registry bill is slated to go before Congress in early July. BACK

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