The State of Florida shouldn't be compelled to allow it's employees to teach that their own employers are some "white Satan" anymore than a Catholic university can be forced to employ a professor teaching atheism.
The law understands the difference between the government acting in the scope of an employer vs. as a government. When acting as an employer, the government generally has the same rights as a private employer.
You're absolutely right that there is the point that teachers can't just invent their own bigoted curriculum.
However, I think there's an additional layer to this. Any speech the state makes must be strictly limited. When speaking, the state is required to speak on behalf of everyone as a form of political representation. This is one of the reasons it can't actually show political bias within it's own programs and bureaucracy, and must relegate itself to strict procedure.
Government agents don't have the same speech rights as everyone else when speaking on behalf of the state. Those rights are aggressively limited. It's the same reason it's unacceptable for military personnel to endorse candidates in uniform. Politics must be secured to very specific areas within the government, not within enforcement or the courts. Hence, the teachers have zero fucking right to start speaking out and pretending that they have unlimited right to ignore the curriculum and advocate their own personal ideologies. It's the exact same reason we say that teachers can't just lead prayers in school. We see that as a state agent imposing a religious ideology on the students. Why would it be different in regards to deifying George Floyd?
The state simply doesn't have free speech rights. People do. Agents of the state lose those freedoms when speaking on behalf of the state. They want to advocate that their white students should be prosecuted and tyrannized for the crimes of their race? Then they need to do that shit, voluntarily, off school grounds, not as a teacher, and with no evidence of reprisal.
The State of Florida shouldn't be compelled to allow it's employees to teach that their own employers are some "white Satan" anymore than a Catholic university can be forced to employ a professor teaching atheism.
The law understands the difference between the government acting in the scope of an employer vs. as a government. When acting as an employer, the government generally has the same rights as a private employer.
You're absolutely right that there is the point that teachers can't just invent their own bigoted curriculum.
However, I think there's an additional layer to this. Any speech the state makes must be strictly limited. When speaking, the state is required to speak on behalf of everyone as a form of political representation. This is one of the reasons it can't actually show political bias within it's own programs and bureaucracy, and must relegate itself to strict procedure.
Government agents don't have the same speech rights as everyone else when speaking on behalf of the state. Those rights are aggressively limited. It's the same reason it's unacceptable for military personnel to endorse candidates in uniform. Politics must be secured to very specific areas within the government, not within enforcement or the courts. Hence, the teachers have zero fucking right to start speaking out and pretending that they have unlimited right to ignore the curriculum and advocate their own personal ideologies. It's the exact same reason we say that teachers can't just lead prayers in school. We see that as a state agent imposing a religious ideology on the students. Why would it be different in regards to deifying George Floyd?
The state simply doesn't have free speech rights. People do. Agents of the state lose those freedoms when speaking on behalf of the state. They want to advocate that their white students should be prosecuted and tyrannized for the crimes of their race? Then they need to do that shit, voluntarily, off school grounds, not as a teacher, and with no evidence of reprisal.