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Thursday, May 4th, 2023

Florida lawmakers restrict pronouns and tackle book objections in sweeping education bill

Author:     Andrew Atterbury
Source:     Politico
Publication Date:     05/03/2023 | 02:24 PM EDT
 Link: Florida lawmakers restrict pronouns and tackle book objections in sweeping education bill
Stephan:  

Florida, a state facing catastrophic climate change projected to submerge nearly half the state, and with a host of other problems, has a governor and a legislature doing little or nothing about those problems and focusing instead on pronouns. Sexual hate and hysteria have become the principal issues for the MAGAt Republicans, and this is what the Florida legislature is spending its time on. 

The expansions are set to widen a ban on school lessons about sexual identity and gender orientation and require schools to yank challenged books within five days of someone flagging it, a shift opponents equate to “book banning.” Credit: Rick Bowmer / AP

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA — Republican senators in Florida gave final approval Wednesday to a sweeping education bill targeting how teachers and students can use their pronouns in schools, sending to Gov. Ron DeSantis a proposal meant to strengthen state’s parental rights law panned by critics as “Don’t Say Gay.”

The expansions to one of the most controversial bills of 2022, which lawmakers passed on a 27-12 party-line vote, are set to widen a ban on school lessons about sexual identity and gender orientation that GOP lawmakers argue should take place at home — not in the classroom. The wide-ranging measure also requires schools to yank challenged books within five days of someone flagging it, a shift opponents equate to “book banning.”

“We are depriving children of the ability to figure out who they are when we […]

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1 Comment

  1. Sam Crespi on Friday, May 5, 2023 at 5:55 am

    And, in response the youth are rising! De Santis has gone further with all sorts of draconian regulations in high schools that are crippling education and Florida’s future. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/florida-youth-activism