The state of Florida is making waves in public education. Last year they told public schools to stop sexualizing kindergarten through third-grade students. Beginning next month, that prohibition expands to 12th grade.
Last month, the Florida Board of Education released a proposed rule to expand the new standards, which would modify Florida schools’ “principles of professional conduct” to ban lessons on gender and sexual identity in all grade levels starting at kindergarten, while in grades 4-12, such lessons would be banned unless “expressly required” by Florida academic standards or as part of a class on reproductive health, in which case parents could chose to pull their children from a class. …
The expanded rule is the latest move in DeSantis’s ongoing efforts to follow through on the promises he made in his second inaugural address to continue getting ideological proselytization out of education and more thoroughly making Florida the place “where woke goes to die.”
The radicals will no doubt try to continue sexualizing other people’s kids, which ought to begin and end with parents calling lawyers to meet with school officials to explain why they shouldn’t sue them. Be sure to include the sexually explicit books with copies of local or state obscenity codes.
If you as an adult feel you or your employees must talk to other people’s children about sex, perhaps a little pre-trial discovery is in order. And that’s not anti-gay. It is equity. Muslims, Jews, and Christians are effectively forbidden from inculcating students at public schools with their worldviews about coupling and human sexuality. But it is something parents can discuss at home when they feel the child is ready. Equality demands equal access or its absence.
Besides, if you want your kids reading books about casual underage sex, rape, incest, sodomy, child-adult sex, or anything else, that’s your call, but be prepared. It might result in an anonymous call to child and family services. That sort of behavior borders on or is defined in law as illegal sexual and mental abuse of a child. This begs the question, why is it acceptable for another adult to do the same thing and for an entire political party to defend it?
DeSantis and the Florida legislature get that.
Public education suffers not so much from mission creep as mission failure. What is supposed to be an opportunity to build a foundation for learning math, reading, writing, history, science, civics, and debate has been perverted. Public ed, at its best, has become a laundromat that turns tax dollars into left-wing union activism. At its worst, a partisan political indoctrination center with a new grooming attachment.
