Posted on 04/21/2024 8:17:41 PM PDT by chickenlips
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law this week that ends teachers’ ability to abuse a book challenge law that was implemented to protect children from pornographic materials in school.
The law now significantly limits the ability of Florida residents who do not have children in the state’s education system to be able to challenge book titles.
“The idea that someone can use the parents rights and the curriculum transparency to start objecting to every single book to try to make a mockery of this is just wrong,” DeSantis said the day before the bill signing. “That’s performative. That’s political.”
DeSantis said that people did not want their time wasted by the leftists who were trying to get classic books banned.
“We don’t care about your performative efforts to try to make a name for yourself, that’s not appropriate,” he said. “So when you have some school administrators or teachers that are saying that somehow state law requires them to take classic books off the shelves, that is a lie. That is not true. That is depriving students of a valid education.”
“So I think that 90% of the things, I mean, when they would say that somehow, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ couldn’t be done when that was on the state’s summer reading list for the Florida Department of Education, don’t tell me Florida law says you can’t do that,” he said. “When they said you couldn’t do a book about Hank Aaron, when that was the Book of the Month for the Florida Department of Education, don’t tell us you can do that.”
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Not Zero.
Trump is pushing 80.
DeSantis had absolutely no chance of winning the nomination this year. In fact what he did pretty much assures he never will. He stabbed the MAGA base of the party not just in the back, but in the chest as well.
That won’t be forgotten or forgiven.
Had he played his cards right he could have had any job in a second Trump administration other than VP. Then he’d have had the 2028 nomination handed to him on a solid gold platter.
Instead he listened to terrible advice from the Bush wing of the party and made the most boneheaded move in modern American political history.
It’s sad because it was such a stupid, stupid waste of time and money.
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On the surface, this law seems to violate Equal Protection provisions in the constitution. Having children in a school system shoiuld not give some parents preference under the law as all citizens in the district pay taxes to the school district either directly or indirectly. The tax payers are the ones to make the decisions.
I love what he is doing for Florida again, hope he continues this streak. If he hadn't screwed up by running, he'd be big time first on the list for 2028.
Harry Reid reincarnate you just can’t give up your disingenuous Florida election integrity and fiscal responsibility blather.
I’m surprised you haven’t accused Trump of not paying taxes.
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