It remains urgent to speak the truth plainly and oppose the ever-intensifying spread of radical social theory being taught to ever-younger students.
Instances of ideological excess in American classrooms are well chronicled and widespread.
We have seen enough to know that the time to act has long since passed.
The Florida anti-grooming law is a necessary tool to blunt this advance, even though it seems conspicuously tame upon closer inspection.
Its most controversial aspect, from which the disingenuous "don't say gay" moniker was derived, would have been uncontroversial in any other era: "Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards."
The key term for those still attempting to comprehend this law is "instruction."
The target is not the casual reference, but rather the systematic instruction of academic gender theory to prepubescent children.
For instance, it has become common for teachers to utilize resources like "The Gender-bread Person" in SEL (social-emotional learning) curricula, as well as other ideologically tinged materials that do not reflect settled science, let alone objective reality.
Further, such instruction materials necessarily force teachers to operate beyond their professional depth and predetermined range of responsibility.
Teachers are not psychologists. This was pointedly demonstrated by a mother who spoke at a PTA meeting in Spreckles, California after her daughter's teacher admitted to stalking her online in order to recruit her into an LGBTQA+ club. "Do you have a doctorate in psychiatry that I don't know about?" she asked.
Also, teachers are not paid by taxpayers to be activists involved in recruiting 5- to 8-year-olds into political causes.
Too many teachers have departed the realm of education and entered into the realm of indoctrination, and often with a creepy, messianic air. As such, they must be reined in.
The Florida law prohibits teachers from formally instructing students on these matters before the 4th grade. Until then, the situation will remain in the hands of the students' families.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/04/the_truly_remarkable_thing_about_floridas_antigrooming_law.html