From Red State.com (April 4, 2022):
As we previously reported, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Florida “Parental Rights in Education” bill into law last Monday as The Usual Suspects on the left vowed to fight it in court and as “woke” Disney pledged to lend their support in various ways including via funding to try and get the law overturned.
Though the law has been dubbed by critics as the “don’t say gay” law, nowhere in the text of it does the word “gay” even appear, much less is it written that teachers are banned from saying “gay.” To reiterate points we’ve already made, here’s what the law actually mandates as far as instruction on sensitive sexual matters goes:
“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.”
You’d think making sure teachers didn’t overstep their bounds in how they approach these topics in the classroom with young children wouldn’t be considered “controversial” at all, but the radical left being who they are have portrayed the “issue” that way in a campaign that so far has failed to convince even a majority of their own voters, who along with conservatives also support the measure.
And speaking to that point, former Congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard took to the Twitter machine earlier to not only express her support for the law but to also to note her surprise that the limiting of the instruction/discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity topics only applied to grades K-3.
Observing that most people were well aware at this point that “parental rights are under attack by the government all across this country,” Gabbard said, “We should all support the Parental Rights in Education bill that recently passed in Florida, which very simply bans government and government schools from indoctrinating ‘woke’ sexual values in or schools to a captive audience.”
“A captive audience” Gabbard noted, “that is by law required to attend.”
She went on to suggest that the law maybe should have gone even further.
“I gotta tell you I was shocked to learn it only protects kids from kindergarten until third grade,” she stated. “Third grade? What about 12th grade or not at all? Government has no place in personal lives. Government has no place in our bedrooms. Parents are the ones responsible for raising their kids and instilling in them a moral foundation, not the government.”
She then pivoted to where she believes the real focus in public education should be: Reading, writing, arithmetic, and history, where she says our schools are “failing” students.
“The reality that we are facing in our country is our schools are failing. Nationally, 34 percent of students are below basic reading level in the fourth grade. 25 percent of high school graduates are functionally illiterate,” she pointed out.
“Now I’m confident that if our schools focused on educating our kids, teaching them the fundamentals … we would see our literacy rates improve and set our young people up for success to be thinking logically, to be thinking critically, and thinking for themselves. This is what our public schools should focus on” Gabbard asserted.
The comment section of her tweet was of course bursting at the seams with triggered Democrats, but she made some great points I’ve also heard some Republicans make about how there needs to be more of a sense of urgency in the party among political leaders about how “woke” groups and educators work to indoctrinate students in all grades, whether it be on topics related to sexual orientation and transgenderism to critical race theory and hating America.
DeSantis and the Republicans in the Florida state legislature obviously have been trying to address some of those concerns with this and other legislation as have other red-state governors and state legislatures, which is a good thing. The worry I think people who oppose these indoctrination efforts have the most is in wondering how much backbone these same Republicans will have when the left/media/woke corporations begin their inevitable coordinated trash campaigns complete with Hollywood elitists chiming in with lectures and then the legal threats that almost always follow.
DeSantis and company have shown they’re committed to not backing down in the face of concerted media/leftist PR efforts. The onus will be on parents in other states to make sure the Republicans who represent their interests not only get in the fight but stay in it as well. Because if we can’t get a handle on how far radicals on the left are willing to go to infiltrate schools and pump poison into the minds of impressionable kids, everything else falls apart. [source]
She has a point.
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