DeSantis' 'communist' school accusation rings hollow, reveals ugly truth

[Nevilledog]

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/09/26/desantis-communist-schools-park-maitland-discrimination-maxwell/

No paywall
https://archive.ph/buXra


Over the past six years, the Orlando Sentinel has spotlighted a slew of publicly funded voucher schools in Florida with disturbing policies and woefully inadequate educational programs.

We’ve found schools that flat-out refuse to serve children with disabilities — with written policies saying that they simply won’t accept kids in wheelchairs or who have conditions like autism.

Also schools that refuse to admit students who are gay or even have gay parents. Again, we’re talking about written policies that explicitly say students can be expelled or rejected for saying the words: “I am gay.” We even interviewed a mom whose kids were admitted at one Florida voucher school — until she started dating another woman, an Air Force veteran. Then her kids were denied admission.

We’ve also found schools that had high-school dropouts working as “teachers,” that operated out of rundown strip malls and that taught children all sorts of fictional nonsense.

In each and every one of those cases, GOP lawmakers have said: Well, that’s how school choice works. Parents get to choose.

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[RKP5637]

1. Florida, on its way to the worst educational system in the US. n/t

[sanatanadharma]

2. School choice; the schools get to choose ...

School choice!
The schools get to choose.
They chose those who will profit the school the most and reject those who will cost the most to serve.
Then, there is the 'you're not worthy excuse', proffered by the least worthy among us.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Those parents should go to private schools

Instead of using public funds to deny other parents of an inclusive school environment. I hope there is a lawsuit on constitutional grounds.

[pandr32]

8. I'm with you.

[dameatball]

4. Scott Maxwell on top of things as usual. Too bad more dumbass Floridians dont read his columns.

[mopinko]

5. in illinois, every 5 yrs u have to get your charter renewed.

parents, teachers, student and community members all get a vote.
we dont allow these nonsense chains in, either.

[coprolite]

6. Damn the Thesaurus

"Again, we’re talking about written policies that explicitly say students can be expelled or rejected for saying the words: “I am gay.”

I'm old enough to remember when gay also referred to being "Happy"!

[KS Toronado]

9. So am I

I'm old enough to remember when gay also referred to being "Happy"!

Welcome to DU.

[Maraya1969]

7. Ask the parents if they have bad experiences with gay school mates As a matter of fact as that

numskull desantis why he wasn't groomed during his high school year

Maybe it is a good question to leave with his answering machine


Address PL 05 The Capitol 400 South Monroe Street Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001.
Phone [phone].
Fax [phone].


To his email: https://www.flgov.com/email-the-governor/


Or Twitter

[keithbvadu2]

10. Yet DeSantis will have students follow the curriculum of conservative groomer Prager.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017860201#post1

Conservative moral lessons from Dennis Prager... Masturbating To Animated Child Porn

Dennis Prager: What's Wrong With Masturbating To Child Porn?

This is the guy providing “educational resources” to Florida’s children.

[IronLionZion]

11. While underfunding public schools who are actually beholden to DOE standards

but of course some parents don't want their kids fraternizing with the public school kids.

[mountain grammy]

12. Fight back Florida

We’re rooting for you! I’ll go stick some more pins in my DeSantis doll.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. The radicalized Republican party's war against education continues.

[albacore]

14. Charter schools...? What about religious-based schools?

At least two dozen US Catholic dioceses have declared bankruptcy after paying a total of at least $3 Billion in sex abuse settlements.
Add the diocese of Baltimore today.
And that's just in the USA.
Grooming. Pedophilia.

Is Florida doing anything about the grooming and abuse that goes on there? The following are the settlements paid in Florida.... not a complete list of sex abuse cases.
In 2004, the Diocese of Orlando reported paying $4.2 million in settlements to address abuse allegations dating between 1968 and 2002.
In 2004, the Archdiocese of Miami agreed to pay nearly $3.5 million to settle priest sexual abuse claims.
In 2005, the Diocese of Orlando and the Diocese of St. Augustine agreed to pay $1.5 million to three victims of priest abuse. The Orlando Diocese was originally part of the St. Augustine Diocese when the abuse took place. Thus, the dioceses each agreed to pay half of the settlement.
In 2011, the Diocese of St. Petersburg reported paying $4.7 million to settle priest sexual abuse claims. This sum includes settlement payouts, legal bills and victim counseling fees.

[keithbvadu2]

17. Not just Catholic priests.

Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers

https://www.dailykos.com/blogs/CajsaLilliehook
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Former Youth Ministry Volunteer Gets Life In Prison For Child Rapes

And Many more

https://www.joemygod.com/?s=youth

[albacore]

18. Absolutely.... If you see a headline that starts with "Youth Minister...."

You just know what the story is about.

[Skittles]

22. agreed

"youth minister", "youth pastor" at best I think, GROOMER and at worst I think, PERVERT

[albacore]

19. Baptists, too..

"At the 2021 convention, member churches voted to conduct an internal investigation of sexual abuse within the church.
Complaints about sexual abuse and sexual assault on the part of pastors were sent to higher-ups who then kept those accusations quiet. Though the report, by Guidepost Solutions, was only commissioned to study the cover-up from the years 2000 on, it found incidents of sexual abuse and warnings of the same going back to the 1960s. In all, Guidepost found accusations leveled against people at all levels: church volunteers, staff, and leadership, including those at the top of the church’s ladder. Those accusations were made by people of different ages and genders, and they include allegations of child sexual abuse, the grooming of adolescents, and the sexual assault of adults."
https://www.vox.com/culture/23131530/southern-baptist-convention-sexual-abuse-scandal-guidepost

[albacore]

20. ..and Jews... (only one example cited, but there are LOTS....)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/12/28/washington-hebrew-settlement-sexual-abuse/

[albacore]

21. Muslims, too....

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https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/12/07/it-s-time-for-muslims-to-talk-about-sexual-misconduct-among-our-islamic-preachers/

[dchill]

15. If "that's how school choice works," then it doesn't.

[Solly Mack]

16. K&R