DeSantis & Florida GOP Want To Ruin Public Education, What Else Is On The List To DeStroy A State?

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'DeSantis and Florida GOP have destroying public education on their to-do list, but that's not all,' Daily Kos, Jan. 14, 2022. - Ed.

It’s a year when foolish ideas for new laws are being proposed—or worse yet, passed—by Republicans everywhere. This includes the GOP in Idaho fighting back against teaching kids math, a Republican lawmaker in Virginia insisting that kids should learn about the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass, and an Indiana law that makes it illegal for corporations to microchip their employees. Republicans have been doing yeoman work when it comes to increasing the national surplus of facepalms. But for anyone looking for a compendium of awful; for a single source that just boils down everything bad and pours it over a state in a stinky slurry of rotten ideas and poisonous policy, there’s only one place to look.

As the Miami Herald reports, Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis and the GOP-dominated state legislature have cooked up “the worst” ideas imaginable. That includes laws deliberately meant to “inflame racial anxieties, election lies and partisan anger.” Just as an example of one of the bills being proposed, a new law would make it possible for both businesses and individuals to sue city and county governments over any regulation. That’s any regulation. Like, regulations that might require people to uphold building standards, or not building a high rise in a spot where it blocks the view of existing residents.

All that someone has to do is show that the regulation could cost them money, and they can sue the local government to recover “damages.” It’s not called the Making Local Government Impossible Act. But it should be.

Many of the bills being put forward follow a similar scheme: allowing people to sue someone else for just about any reason under the Sunshine State. Overall, DeSantis seems out to make the state unlivable for almost everyone, but a heaven for civil attorneys. - What else is on his list of how to DeStroy a state? There was an exec. order banning the GOP's most popular 2021 bugaboo, critical race theory (CRT). Not one district in Fla. was teaching CRT, but now they won’t be doing that even more. DeSantis didn’t stop at banning teachers from teaching something they weren’t teaching. Because Fla. is just one of several states where Republicans have proposed opening teachers & school librarians to lawsuits if they say anything or carry any book that someone else can construe as teaching CRT.

This is a declaration of open season on educators & a backdoor attempt to completely destroy public education.

While they were at it, Republicans also destroyed disability education in the state. It took them 6 minutes & just one speaker...

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- 'Frederick Douglass? Stephen Douglas? Virginia Republicans don't know the difference,' Daily Kos, 1/14/22.

Newly empowered Virginia Republicans are ready to roll with a bill banning the teaching of anything that risks making any white student feel bad about things white people have done. Or, as it’s likely to be described in many accounts, an anti-critical race theory (CRT) bill. This one does us a favor, though, by showing just how well informed about education and U.S. history its authors are....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/14/2074664/-Virginia-Republicans-want-to-ban-not-just-divisive-concepts-but-also-social-emotional-learning

- Rap History, great one! (Way to go Virginia GOP, get your mind right..).

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1. I made a mistake in 1977 and accepted a position with my corporation in South

Florida. I lived in western Broward and worked at MIA. My son was 7 years old and the public schools were so bad and underfunded that they were running classes in two shifts a day. I enrolled my son in a private school. I lasted just 14 months and told my company to get me out of there. to prove the point, I interviewed with a couple of competitors. They transferred me to Raleigh, NC.

So Florida and education have been mutually exclusive before.

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2. I am a child of Dade County Schools..

After the ninth grade, I got bussed as I’m a boomer.. too many kids n not enough schools. Segregation at full speed as I never saw a black student until my senior year. Poor kid as I’m sure he was not happy about it. Public schools are the backbone of our educational system.. it’s in our constitution.. what’s going on here in my beloved Florida from education to climate challenges is heartbreaking.. w/o being dramatic. Time to go? But where?

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3. Why - public health, of course

What better way to respond to an epidemic!?