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

  • 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."