Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has made it clear how he views public schools and what they're teaching children: He doesn't trust them. At a recent news conference, he returned to a familiar theme. "Following woke indoctrination in our schools, that is a road to ruin for this country," he said. "And we're not going to let it happen in Florida."

Anyone who spent 5 minutes on libsoftiktok doesn’t trust public schools, anyone whose seen that resource starved charter schools outperforming public schools, and anyone that had the displeasure of a publicly gay teacher growing up don’t trust public education anymore. The fact college has been reteaching high school courses for decades now should make everyone hate public schools.

Since becoming governor in 2019, DeSantis has become known for taking combative positions on controversial issues, including education. He recently signed a number of measures aimed at preventing the sort of "indoctrination" he and his Republican supporters fear is taking place. His "Stop Woke" act sets limits on how issues involving race may be taught. And it allows parents to sue teachers and school districts that violate it. Another measure, the Parental Rights in Education Act, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by critics, bans any instruction involving sexual orientation or gender identity in the earliest grades and says beyond that it must be "age appropriate."

Oh noooooooo

In a June interview with the Christian fundamentalist group, Focus on the Family, DeSantis said he believes there's a "concerted effort to inject ... gender ideology and sexuality into the discussions with the very youngest kids." Critics of the law say that's not true. They believe the law is part of an effort by DeSantis and Republicans to mobilize the party's conservative base by targeting the LGBTQ community.

You mean the mountains of evidence and the fact that the entire gender identity movement was started by proven pedophiles? Anyone who has ever bothered to read the social academia knows they want to target your kids as early as possible. They say it’s the most “appropriate age”, what they mean is they are the most susceptible to grooming a la John Money. These methods are directly from the child abuse he put the twins through.

Robert Cassanello, an associate professor of History at the University of Central Florida, says although the law just took effect this month, it's already had an impact. "There have been high school teachers that have reported to me that they have been told by their superiors don't mention gay, lesbian or any sexuality on class," he says. "Don't even approach this with 11th and 12th graders. And these were things they had previously taught."

What place does high school education have in teaching sexual theory? Gay, lesbian, etc have no proven biological source, soooooo why don’t we teach that as well?

More recently, DeSantis rolled out a civics education initiative that he says will make sure students in elementary, middle and high schools aren't taught a distorted view of history. "You're learning the real history. You're learning the real facts," he said. "It's not going to be done in a way to indoctrinate students with whatever modern agenda someone may have." Barbara Segal, a high school government teacher in Fort Lauderdale, recently took a three-day training session on Florida's new civics standards. She says, "They were pushing an ideological agenda." In the training materials, Segal says, slides said it was a "misconception" that the Founding Fathers wanted strict separation of church and state and that they in fact wanted religion to be promoted.

Using the actual words of the founding fathers instead of taking the words and separating all context is “pushing an ideological agenda”.