A brand new report has revealed that the state of Florida removed a whopping 4,500 books from public schools that were pro-LGBTQ and were sexually explicit during the 2023-2024 school year. And yet, according to leftists, there’s no indoctrination happening in the classroom at all. They’re just trying to teach kids to be tolerant of alternative lifestyles, that’s all. So tolerant of them, in fact, that they adopt them and become a bunch of sick and twisted perverts and sexual deviants when they grow up, willing to throw off the shackles of traditional values and norms, undermining all their parents taught them.
And that’s their ultimate goal. Progressives want future generations to view the state as their parent, their caregiver. For that to happen, you have to sever the connection a child has with his actual parents. It’s disturbing
LifeSiteNews is reporting that a leftist “free speech” group — talk about an oxymoron — is once again slapping Florida with the label of being the top state in our country for “book banning.” The group’s goal is to make current Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis look bad, however, that plan is backfiring. Many parents don’t want their kids exposed to this kind of filth at school. Highlighting how effective the current administration is at having this sort of smut removed from classrooms is actually drawing in more supporters.
The Tallahassee Democrat reported that, according to PEN America, more than 4,500 total books (and 4,231 individual titles) were removed from Florida public schools in the 2023-24 school year, sharply up from 1,406 the year before. That accounts for almost half of the 10,000 total removals nationwide. Thirty-nine percent of the books included “LGBTQ” characters and 57 percent had “sex or sex-related content,” according to the report. (Forty-four percent “included characters of color,” it added, but does not back up the implication that race was a motivating factor for removal.)
“This crisis is tragic for young people hungry to understand the world they live in and see their identities and experiences reflected in books,” PEN America Freedom to Read director Kasey Meehan went on to say about Florida’s rather stellar job of tossing what amounts to pornography out of public schools. “What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives, whether critical thinking, empathy across difference, personal well-being, or long-term success.”
DeSantis spokesman Bryan Griffin responded that the “concept that not everything is appropriate to be in a school is still an unacceptable concept to FL print media & Democrats. They’re still trying to equate removing porn from the classroom with a ‘book ban.’ Good thing they’ve rendered themselves irrelevant in this state.”
The concept that not everything is appropriate to be in a school is still an unacceptable concept to FL print media & Democrats.
They're still trying to equate removing porn from the classroom with a "book ban."
Good thing they've rendered themselves irrelevant in this state. https://t.co/SzK7zFkvqB
— Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) November 2, 2024
Back in August, Griffin issues a response to a similar attack that was made on the New College of Florida, saying that some “dumped” books were “just getting replaced with newer versions,” though he stood by removing gender studies “propaganda.”
Gov. DeSantis, a man who is proving himself to be a valuable asset to conservatives over and over again by his performance as a governor, stood up for the work he and his team are doing to remove ideologically biased and age-inappropriate material from schools. During a press conference held in 2023, the Florida Republican presented examples of some of the material that he took issue with. One was so explicit a local television station had to cut away from live coverage.
If it is too inappropriate for local news, why is it appropriate for young children? That makes zero sense.
“Exposing the ‘book ban’ hoax is important because it reveals that some are attempting to use our schools for indoctrination,” the governor remarked. “In Florida, pornographic and inappropriate materials that have been snuck into our classrooms and libraries to sexualize our students violate our state education standards.”
“That campaign is part of DeSantis’s lengthy, proactive conservative record of making Florida the place ‘where woke goes to die,’ as he said in his second inaugural address, including parental rights, educational standards, and more. Most recently, he led a successful campaign to defeat a well-funded ballot initiative to enshrine a ‘right’ to abortion in the Florida Constitution that would have invalidated all of the Sunshine State’s pro-life laws, including its six-week, heartbeat-based abortion ban,” the report concluded.