After school flap, Miami-Dade County Mayor invites poet Amanda Gorman to read her work

[In It to Win It]

Miami Herald via Yahoo News

Miami-Dade County’s mayor on Wednesday invited poet Amanda Gorman to read her work in the Miami area after a local K-8 public school decided the poem she delivered at Joe Biden’s inaugural ceremony wasn’t suitable for elementary school children.

Link to tweet

Mayor Daniella Levine Cava doesn’t supervise county schools, so had no say over the decision by a Miami Lakes school to steer young students away from Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb.” The school, Bob Graham Education Center, limited the work to library shelves for middle school students after a review committee determined the poem on racial justice wasn’t appropriate for elementary students.

In a Twitter post responding to Gorman’s criticism of the decision, Levine Cava, a Democrat, said: “Your poem inspired our youth to become active participants in their government and to help shape the future.”

[Upthevibe]

1. Kick. n/t

[Deuxcents]

2. Read it to whom? I guess they will

Coordinate if and when she accepts

[Lovie777]

3. Invite students and their parents.................

Florida is getting down right ridiculous.

[LonePirate]

4. While a nice gesture, it doesn't solve the problem - the poem being banned in the first place.

That's the issue of far more importance that needs to be addressed.

[Aristus]

8. But it does mean that there will be a venue for the reading that the Nazis

can’t control.

Encouraging people to go to the public library to read books banned in the schools doesn’t solve the book ban problem, but it does mean that people can continue to read the books that matter most.

[GenThePerservering]

11. More than a 'nice gesture'

This is a solid statement that there are many who don't agree with this, and they will carry on regardless.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

5. I don't usually understand poetry, at least without a lot of work.

But I remember the immediate awe I felt listening to Gorman reading her poem at the inauguration. The idea that an elementary school would ban it is crazy.

[usonian]

6. Looking forward to better times.

[11 Bravo]

7. But until that happy day Florida will remain America's limp dick.

[In It to Win It]

10. Patton Oswalt made a hilarious joke

That Maine was America’s rock hard dick sticking out, and Florida is America’s nutsack 😂

[calimary]

12. Pretty much.

[In It to Win It]

9. Yes! Put it out into the universe! I believe it's possible

It’ll take a little time, a lot of effort… why not? It’s a big prize.

Also, I live here. I would like to see a government I could be proud of sometime in my adult life.