On Wednesday Rev. Rick Stevens, a leader in FLCA, confessed his “family values” special interest group has lobbied the state legislature for 10+ yrs. Our gerrymandered state legislature is farther today from representing all “the people” then it was in 2018 & 2020…
The “accountability” they seek is a return on investment in their politicians- and the 2022 #EdScare laws were just the beginning.
Keith Flaugh (other leader of FLCA) says they will lobby for the 2023 legislative session to put more teeth into these laws…
From their point-of-view, Don’t Say Gay and Stop WOKE didn’t go far enough to eliminate “leftist ideology.”
They don’t want to support public education. They want it dismantled.
When you sit out voting in state elections, you allow this to happen. #VoteBlueInFL
The Reverend and his counterpart Flaugh both served on the 2018 DeSantis Education Advisory Committee (transition team).
We have found articles from 2017/2018 using the “education, not indoctrination” slogan, but used in opposition to climate change references in science texts.
They need to make public education unbearable for the vast majority of parents, and this is a long game.
Taxpayer funded, for-profit education that is not accountable to teaching common truths about our history, science, and the people that exist in the world is the end game.
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From the mouth of M4L queen 🐝 Tina: sexual orientation and gender identity were NOT being taught in FL K-3 public schools. This was a preemptive bill.
You know what is here now and impacting our kids? - mass shootings, teacher shortage, housing instability
So, the @TheFLGOP passed a bill and the Governor signed into law legislation that makes it illegal to do something no one was doing, for fear that it might be done, knowing it would cause soft censorship.
That’s not small government. That’s not Liberty. That’s not Freedom.
And because the “this” is out of context - here she is talking about gender identity and sexual orientation being included in K-3 curriculum in other states: by 3rd grade students will understand that there are different family structures & that people have a gender identity.
In a recent appearance on Dr. Phil, Tina of M4L, while defending the Don’t Say Gay law (which is for K-3 right now), makes a very INFLAMMATORY and flat out FALSE characterization about LGBTQ+ books that are getting removed from K-3 access because of the law.
Before the polls start asking their questions surrounding the DSG laws, they need to make sure they dispel all of the misinformation out there about what these laws actually do.
The FL version DOES NOT eliminate sex education from K-3 classroom instruction. It’s targeted.
SexEd is not being taught in K-3. If that’s what you want to stop from happening, you don’t need this law.
That’s like carrying a parachute on your back when driving a car.
This is an email we received yesterday about the development of the Library Media Specialist training. After the meeting Tuesday we had a number of concerns, including the fact that attendees from Indian River wanted to impose HB1557 “classroom instruction” limits on the library.
So, if the FL DOE Director of Library Media & Instructional Materials can’t clearly state if self-selected library books (which now include classroom libraries) should have the same restrictions made for “classroom instruction,” & violating HB1557 can result in decertification…
…how are Districts supposed to revise their policies to comply to with the new rules?
Can a parent claim now that their parental rights are being violated if a classroom library is available to their K-5 child without an online searchable database being available?
Board Member Grazie Christie- “If children are hearing about sexuality in kindergarten then that needs to be addressed.”
But HB1557 doesn’t ban instruction on sexuality- only gender identity and sexual orientation. The BOE doesn’t even understand the law. orlandosentinel.com/news/education…
During Senate floor discussions an amendment to HB1557 was proposed by (R) Brandes that changed “gender identity and sexual orientation” to “human sexuality” to ensure K-3 would not be instructed on sex & LGBTQ+ students/educators wouldn’t be targeted.
It was voted down by Rs.
The @TB_Times endorsed @DannyBurgessFL for re-election because he is running a “serious” campaign.
This was him voting down the Brandes amendment. Here are FLCA challenge forms turned into his district to challenge books using HB1557 language as reasoning. Is it “no” now? twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
It’s really hard not to rage tweet this right now.
We had a feeling, but now we know it’s true…
The FLDOE parent work group selection process was a farce! Note the familiar name getting involved in the selection process, and M4L Brevard nominated herself!
Lee & St.Johns (the non M4L participants) at least had resumes submitted by school leadership (which was supposed to be the process).
We are working on getting the other nominations we KNOW exist that come from leaders with resumes attached to show that there was other interest.
The FLDOE was not limited in their options.
And to be clear, when we asked for the nomination letters associated with this work group, this is all we were provided in regards to Pippin and Beavers.
For those that don’t know we are based in Orange County, but even our welcoming, inclusive city (Orlando) isn’t immune to M4L censorship.
D3 School Board Candidate Alicia Farrant - the person responsible for every book challenge in Orange County - is on the ballot in Nov.
She was talking about BORN A CRIME by @Trevornoah in that video. A book that did go through the full challenge and appeal process & was unanimously voted to stay on the shelves both times.
She thought “to” mentions of sex in the book was enough to ban it from school libraries.
Here’s another email exchange that mentions again her support (and apparently the Chair’s) for a rating system that would take away all intellectual consideration of whether a book should be available and instead leave it up to an algorithm based on excerpts.