Amen! Sadly, most of us were taught lies, it is time for true history to be taught!

Also, my understanding is that Florida has a large number of students who are disrespectful and not committed to learning. I was fortunate to attend parochial schools in the sixties where students might or might not be smart, but we were respectful and attentive and safe. There were no bullies. Our schoolbooks were old, but that didn’t matter. We all learned what we needed to know. Our library had enough interesting books so that I could read a book a day. There were no books to which the Free State would object, but we survived somehow. Tuition was low because special education hadn’t been invented yet. Most of us came from households where education was supported instead of denigrated as unimportant. My kids went to a school like that, too. That’s how schools SHOULD be. As I understand it, a lot of Florida students make the lives of teachers very unhappy. I wouldn’t want to teach in a school like that. I think this is the best time ever to be alive, but it’s not a good time to be an elementary school or high school teacher.

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Substitute ‘ painting companies,’ for “ schools” and ‘ house painters’ for “teachers”.
Some of the comments don’t seem quite as practical or logical (to me).

Absolutely not, we don’t need indoctrination. Your welcome to do that to your kids not someone else’s.

I am sure they are trying to recover from a big wave of teachers who quit at winter break. The Sumter County public schools are very challenging and teachers are micromanaged. I returned to Tampa after only a month. HUGE difference!

I agree! Based on your response, who’s indoctrinating whom and what was said that makes you think so?

I agree! Who’s indoctrinating whom and what was said that makes you think so?

Sorry but the state superintendent and his staff set the curriculum that all state school r to teach.
The problem is our elected officials and their staff believe that the history of Florida if touched my make the kids feel bad.
We should be ashamed of what we as so called intelligent white man have done to the Native Americans, African American and Spanish American.
So know that if history is to be selected to teach I can only think what Germany did to the Jews, and all people that they didn’t like who were send to concentration camp.

Will the state of Florida be coming to the school and cleaning out the libraries of banned books? Big bond fire or just send them to the landfill? Far fetched…..maybe, maybe not.

No one is suggesting we don't teach history, warts and all...

No one is suggesting we only teach "selected history"...

So, you're happy with elementary schools having books with explicit instructions on sex acts that are available to all students?

Because THAT is what they are actually currently talking about being removed from schools...

Or are you talking about "Huck Finn" and "To Kill a Mockingbird", because "racism"? Because that is what already has been banned in many schools...

Oh, and guess what? They weren't banned by the same people...

Agree completely!

But of the same stripe........

you're happy with elementary schools having books with explicit instructions on sex acts that are available to all students?
Really, where did you hear that?

There's this new fangled thing, called "the news"... You might want to check it out...

Hey, Mintz,

About Huck and TKAM — those two books have been targeted for decades by groups who have no idea what they are talking about — and most of whom have not even read the books — just grabbing things out of context, lighting those book burning fires, and fanning the flames.

But those book burning fires have always been kept under control — until now. From school boards in local districts to those in positions of overall high power — ignorance is winning.

I could defend Huck and Harper Lee all day, but I don’t have time to type that much and this is not the place to go into all that anyway.

I once attended a defense of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. This was in front of a school board who would have the final say. Those who wanted the book banned just keep calling it “The Cuss Book” — that was all they had. Their argument was so pathetic that I actually started feeling embarrassed for them — just a little. All they could do was point to “cuss words.” (The characters in the book are ranch hands, Ranch hands don’t go around saying, “Golly, Gee Willikers.”)

The defense was done by an English teacher who used the book in her American Lit class. She did a respectful, clear defense. The school board voted to keep the book in the curriculum.

That was in the 1980s. Now? Hah! School boards across the country are being stacked with the power-crazy, ill-informed who will not be satisfied until they eviscerate the curriculum and run every last good teacher out…..

In fact, I think that might be the goal. If there are no teachers, kids eventually will be holed up in front of screens, to be instructed by some vacant-eyed puppet person, reading from an approved script. And then “they” could say how much money they had saved the taxpayers. Yep. Just call me Cassandra.

Boomer

PS: About that elementary sex act instruction thing you said, please cite your source. Seriously. I really want to know exactly where that is coming from. As critical thinkers, we must validate sources. I am respectfully asking you to please cite your source.