Florida’s Governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, is implementing a bold policy agenda that is turning around education in the Sunshine State.
Most famously, he spearheaded the charge for the Parental Rights in Education Act.
Despite Big Media’s claims of it being the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the new law actually just barred any teaching of sexually mature subjects to students in kindergarten through third grade.
It also contained protections for parents, forcing schools to alert them in cases such as pregnancy or gender identity changes.
DeSantis also recently increased teacher pay based on merit – and launched an initiative to recruit teachers with real world experience in the subjects they’re teaching, including veterans.
And he barred Critical Race Theory (CRT) at New College of Florida.
The education system improvements DeSantis has introduced are starting to spread throughout the state.
Florida parents are taking advantage of a bill that DeSantis signed into law back in May that made it legal for parents to read passages from books available at the school during school board meetings, even if those passages don’t meet decency standards.
That’s exactly what happened recently at Indian River County School Board, where Fox News is reporting more than 30 parents read from dozens of pornographic books available for children at the school library.
The board cut off the parents reading at the podium and thanks to DeSantis’ law – since the parents were cut off from reading quotes from the books – the board was forced to vote unanimously to remove those books from the library shelves.
One parent was cut off while reading “Living Dead Girl” by Elizabeth Scott.
The mom only got through, “He shoved me to the floor and pulled off my pants,” before a school board member cut her off – thus disqualifying the book from being available at school.
A pastor began to read a quote from “13 Reasons Why” by Jay Asher.
“As if letting him finger me was going to cure all my problems,” was all the pastor could read before being cut off and getting the book pulled from school shelves.
The effort was led by parental rights group Moms for Liberty.
And while dozens of books were removed, the group is hoping another round will remove more content harmful to young students.
Moms for Liberty mentioned “Tilt” by Ellen Hopkins, “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi, “Collateral” by Ellen Hopkins and “The Assassin’s Blade” by Sarah J Maas all as books they weren’t able to get to at the meeting and will remain in the school until they’re able to get another crack at a future school board meeting.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
