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Monday, October 7
Florida Governor Goes Against Teaching “Theory of Racism”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stepped up his ongoing crusade against the “awakening” and “elites” Wednesday by pushing a bill that would allow parents to sue school districts if they teach “critical race theory” in the classroom.
Republican Ron DeSantis , presented this Wednesday the bill to prohibit in schools and companies indoctrination based on a current that maintains that racism is systemic in American society and has been present since its founding.
“We will not allow Florida tax dollars to be spent teaching children to hate our country or to hate each other”, said the governor in a statement with which he released the legislative proposal Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (W OKE) Act (Law Stop the mistakes of our children and employees).
DeSantis, political disciple of the former president Donald Trump, said that his proposal wants to protect both students and employees of large corporations who are “forced” to be indoctrinated based on the call critical race theory, which considers that the US slave-owning past is the origin of systematic racism.
“We also have a responsibility to ensure that parents have the means to assert their rights when it comes to enforcing state regulations,” added the governor, who said his proposal provides companies, employees, children and families with “tools to fight” against this indoctrination.
The proposed proposal amplifies a previous measure of DeSantis aimed at banning the teaching of theory Criticism of Race in State Schools.
Proponents of critical race theory “attempt to manipulate classroom content as a means to impose one’s values on students, ”said Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran .
“Schools should empower students with great historically accurate knowledge and give those students and their families the freedom to draw their own conclusions, “he added, in statements included in the statement.
DeSantis’s proposal prohibits school districts and universities from hiring” consultants ”of this doctrine.
Critical race theory posits that racism is ingrained in the history, laws, and institutions of the United States and seeks to promote equity. Teaching that theory in Florida public schools is already banned, but DeSantis and other Republicans say its core lessons are still being taught.
The Critical race theory is a concept that is studied at the graduate level in colleges more often than in high schools and pre-colleges.
Given Since this theory is not being studied in most Florida schools, Democratic state legislators denounced DeSantis’s proposal on Wednesday, claiming it was an act of “stupidity,” according to POLITICO.
State Senator Shevrin Jones (D-Miami Gardens) said it was “puzzling” that Republicans assert that the critical theory of The race is dividing the nation when they “led an entire insurrection” on January 6.
“I refuse to sit and watch people who they have not I have an experience lived on my skin to use us as his political scapegoat, ”wrote Jones on Twitter.
With information from EFE and POLITICO
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