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The state of Florida’s education system can’t find the exit out of caricature mode.
As if last year’s legislative session weren’t enough of a spectacle, now legislators want to forbid the use of “they” as a singular pronoun in schools — or any other, for that matter, that isn’t the one assigned to a student at birth.
Fluid gender identity is beyond the reach of Republicans’ IQ level.
So is classic art — and an educator has lost her job because of it.
The principal of the Tallahassee Classical School was forced out after parents complained that sixth-graders were shown Michelangelo’s famous “David” sculpture. One called the iconic 16th century masterpiece “pornography” prohibited under Florida law, the Tallahassee Democrat reports.
The foolishness is only going to hit a higher pitch.
To go along with retrograde censorship and repression, there will soon be an elaborate patriotic indoctrination program, unveiled Thursday in Clay County by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his education commissioner, Manny Díaz Jr.
One has to love the irony: Censored educators teaching civics!
This dog-and-pony show may backfire, however, at least in higher grades. In an attempt to turn the next generation of Florida’s children into nationalist right-wingers by overhauling the state’s education system, DeSantis seems blind to his own reality.
If students really get into truthful nation-building and constitutional lessons allegedly embedded in their new civics “excellence” course, they’re more likely to come to the conclusion that the governor and his GOP-dominant Legislature are undemocratic to the extreme.
For starters, students would find little separation of powers left in this red state, given its voter suppression laws and initiatives.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-student-enroll-florida-civics-083000680.html
As if last year’s legislative session weren’t enough of a spectacle, now legislators want to forbid the use of “they” as a singular pronoun in schools — or any other, for that matter, that isn’t the one assigned to a student at birth.
Fluid gender identity is beyond the reach of Republicans’ IQ level.
So is classic art — and an educator has lost her job because of it.
The principal of the Tallahassee Classical School was forced out after parents complained that sixth-graders were shown Michelangelo’s famous “David” sculpture. One called the iconic 16th century masterpiece “pornography” prohibited under Florida law, the Tallahassee Democrat reports.
The foolishness is only going to hit a higher pitch.
To go along with retrograde censorship and repression, there will soon be an elaborate patriotic indoctrination program, unveiled Thursday in Clay County by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his education commissioner, Manny Díaz Jr.
One has to love the irony: Censored educators teaching civics!
This dog-and-pony show may backfire, however, at least in higher grades. In an attempt to turn the next generation of Florida’s children into nationalist right-wingers by overhauling the state’s education system, DeSantis seems blind to his own reality.
If students really get into truthful nation-building and constitutional lessons allegedly embedded in their new civics “excellence” course, they’re more likely to come to the conclusion that the governor and his GOP-dominant Legislature are undemocratic to the extreme.
For starters, students would find little separation of powers left in this red state, given its voter suppression laws and initiatives.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-student-enroll-florida-civics-083000680.html
