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Ron DeSantis is working to reshape public education in Florida by pushing all the far right hate buttons. He is not failing. With his Moms For Liberty allies, he engineered a takeover of several school boards, including where I live in Martin County.
The latest installment of the Martin County story started less than a year before the nonpartisan school board election scheduled for primary day on August 23. A Mom moved from Virginia to Martin County and decided to run for our school board. Her qualifications were a single semester of community college and 6 years of experience as an administrative assistant at a Christian daycare/pre-K center. The facility was also licensed to teach grades K-4 and enrolled about 40 students. In MFL world, this is more than adequate experience to be one of 5 people sitting on a school board that supervises the education of 15,000 students.
Both MFL candidates were members of the same megachurch. They got support from the church in the form of endorsements from the pulpit and help for parishioners in filling out their ballot. The church also featured the candidates on their podcast. When a listener on the podcast asked dont you think its a good idea to have a cross in every classroom? the candidates response was Praise the Lord!
The governor endorsed the candidate and was featured standing with her in her campaign materials. PACs allied with the governor flooded mailboxes in the nonpartisan race with heavy-handed attacks on her opponents WOKE liberalism and the imminent threat of indoctrination in our schools. The governors candidate won comfortably against her far better qualified opponent. The second Moms candidate also won a closer race against a long-term incumbent, sealing the deal.
Florida schools are open again after the summer break and substantive change will likely have to wait until the next budget cycle. In the meantime, though, there are hints of what classrooms will look like under the Stop WOKE Act and Dont Say Gay legislation. All classrooms are required to display a safe place notice. The old notices were ordered to be removed and replaced with a new version. It looks like some students are going to be safer than others.
PortTack
(32,689 posts)RAB910
(3,484 posts)bahboo
(16,302 posts)you can stop him, Florida....
hay rick
(7,584 posts)it means they want to indoctrinate.
hay rick
(7,584 posts)I noticed after I wrote and posted this that the words on the stickers are changed from "SAFE SPACE" to "SAFE PLACE." In Florida, Safe Space is also the name of the only state certified organization that provides domestic violence centers. Evidently the DeSantis administration doesn't want to be confused with any organization that provides refuge and protection from violence. Parental rights...