New law requires FL students to register political views with state
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Universities may lose funding if staff and students' beliefs do not satisfy Florida's GOP-run legislature

Bishop also told the paper he "certainly hopes" the effort will expand into the K-12 system over time.

"I think the problem isn't just in higher ed. The truth of the matter is that kids are being indoctrinated from an early age," he said.

"I think that those of us who have diverse thinking and look at both sides of the issue, see that the way the cards are stacked in the education system, is toward the left and toward the liberal ideology and also secularism — and those were not the values that our country was founded on. Those are the values that we need to get our country back to."

Emphasis mine

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    what the fuuuuuuck

    I am glad I'm no longer a dipshit florida teenager because there's a very strong chance that i'd've straight up told the reactionary florida government I'm a communist if this was a policy fifteen years ago

    K-12??? hell I'd've probably registered socialist in the 4th grade

    • Steely_Gaige [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, what is the k-12 part?? Surely they mean for teaching staff? I'll be interested to see what comes from this.

      "Your elementary school has unbalanced ideological tendencies. To receive funding, please hire an open white supremacist Christian theocrat to ensure ideological diversity."

      Wonder how this plays out in court.

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        3 years ago

        Literally feels like an adult's scheme to cancel recess from the cartoon Recess

        "An unacceptably high proportion of Mrs. Jackson's kindergarten class reported agree or strongly agree to the statement 'sharing is caring', so we're cutting your funding. Sell your schoolyard to this car dealership so that you can afford to keep paying teachers."

    • Comrade_Cummies [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I remember in 5th grade our teacher asked us whether we were Democrats or Republicans. Shits crazy, like how you gonna ask a kid about politics, knowing that if any of them knew what to say, it's from their parents' views? I didn't know anything about politics then, and foolishly went with what sounded like a focus on the "public" and making life better for people, and went with Republican. :agony-shivering:

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I remember having mock elections in elementary school, and 4 or 5 kids got mad because they couldn't vote for the green party, and the teacher was super staunch that she wasn't adding Nader because he wasn't viable.

        Then I got to watch a 4th grader try to shout down my liberal teacher and get detention