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17 minutes ago, Doc said:

The fear gets more palpable by the day.


Guess DeSantis is over the target. Bombs away!

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AS A WISE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER ADVISES, PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: 

 

DeSantis team rips Andrea Mitchell’s claim he does not want slavery taught:

 

‘Maliciously intent on deceiving.’

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/desantis-team-rips-andrea-mitchells-claim-want-slavery-taught-maliciously-intent-deceiving?intcmp=tw_fnc

 

 

Well, there are plenty of simpletons out there who will believe it.

 

 

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Posted
33 minutes ago, Orlando Tim said:

Where is this happening?

 

Someone said something on Twitter about it happening somewhere.  Yeah.

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A two second search of the Florida Department of Education’s website shows that far from being banned, teaching about slavery is a requirement.

 

The following is in the required instruction statute, s. 1003.42(2)(h), F.S.The history of African Americans, including:

  • the history of African peoples before the political conflicts that led to the development of slavery;
  • the passage to America;
  • the enslavement experience;
  • abolition; and
  • the history and contributions of Americans of the African diaspora to society.

 

but, you know, politics.

 

 

.https://www.fldoe.org/academics/standards/subject-areas/social-studies/african-amer-hist.stml

 

 

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Teacher Who Perpetrated 'Empty Shelves' Hoax to Attack DeSantis Gets His Just Deserts

 

A viral hoax showing a supposedly cleaned-out library as a result of a new Florida law banning explicit material in schools has resulted in a teacher being fired.

 

Brian Covey, who was a substitute teacher for Duval County Public Schools (Jacksonville area), was told his services would no longer be needed after he posted a video making it seem as if the Mandarin Middle School library had been emptied out. When questioned about the situation at the time, Gov. Ron DeSantis denounced it as a fake narrative, noting that nothing in the law required any school to take any such action.

 

Apparently, the school hadn’t taken such action. Covey had instead filmed some random empty shelves in a library otherwise full of books. That was deemed to be a violation of the district’s social media policy and a harm to students by making them believe there were no books to check out.

 

Naturally, outlets like The Washington Post are still pushing the false narrative, even as they report on the firing and why it occurred.

 

 

If you read the article, they admit that Covey’s video was a misrepresentation. Yet, the Post, just a few words later, immediately repeats the falsehood that teachers are being forced to remove and cover books.

 

No, they aren’t. Rather, they are being forced to remove books with graphic sexual content such as “Gender *****,” which contains illustrated scenes of gay sex.

 

Ask yourself, why are these press outlets so obsessed with ensuring kids are exposed to sexual content in schools? I don’t have an answer to that, and I suspect the reasons vary, but it’s certainly a really weird and gross dynamic.

 

The reality is that there is no prohibition on what anyone would consider normal, acceptable reading material for children. The curation of books to exclude explicit and sexual content is not new and has long been part of school libraries. Any teachers or administrators that are rushing to clean out a library or cover up whole bookshelves are doing so simply as a political stunt.

 

Of course, advocacy groups are treating Covey as a victim, arguing his First Amendment rights were violated.

 

You do not have a First Amendment right to take video at work in order to mislead and lie about your employer (in this case, partially being the State of Florida). Social media policies for employment have long existed and have long been held up as legal by the courts. Covey wanted his moment in the spotlight, and he got it. All it cost him was his job, and deservedly so.

 

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/02/18/teacher-who-perpetrated-empty-shelves-hoax-to-attack-desantis-gets-his-just-deserts-n705528

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Posted
5 hours ago, Tiberius said:

Florida. Bring a book the government board has not approved, and you break the law 

Where? Please be specific because this is definitely not part of the law.

1 minute ago, Gene Frenkle said:

 

Well if Fox says it, it must be true! Amirite?

Are you disputing the facts or just being a troll? If they are wrong I want to know.

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3 minutes ago, Orlando Tim said:

Where? Please be specific because this is definitely not part of the law.

Are you disputing the facts or just being a troll? If they are wrong I want to know.

 

I prefer a reputable source. It may be true. I just don't trust the link you provided, and with good reason.

Just now, Doc said:


It's no CNN or WaPo...

 

Did you see the text messages? Thoughts?

Posted (edited)
13 minutes ago, Gene Frenkle said:

 

I prefer a reputable source. It may be true. I just don't trust the link you provided, and with good reason.

 

Did you see the text messages? Thoughts?

In other words since the facts make you look stupid therefore you don't believe the source. If there is evidence they are wrong I will take it but you have nothing.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Orlando Tim said:

In other words since the facts make you look stupid therefore you don't believe the source. If there is evidence they are wrong I will take it but you have nothing.

 

Just provide a link from a reputable source maybe? Fox don't cut it no more.

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