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Every citizen being allowed to participate fully in democracy without prejudices contriving exclusionary barriers is basic to a society's optimizing its potential.
Judgmental goose-stepping authoritarians are antagonistic to participatory democracy. Their puritanical fanaticism goes beyond burka-draped classical statues. They target Americans.
The Tallahassee Taliban is on the march these days. They'll eventually come after you.
Judgmental goose-stepping authoritarians are antagonistic to participatory democracy. Their puritanical fanaticism goes beyond burka-draped classical statues. They target Americans.
The Tallahassee Taliban is on the march these days. They'll eventually come after you.
Florida teachers and community members packed a Hernando County School Board meeting Tuesday amid national furor over an investigation into a fifth-grade teacher who showed a Disney movie in her classroom.
Jenna Barbee, a teacher at Winding Waters K-8, alleged earlier this month that Hernando County School Board member Shannon Rodriguez reported her to the Florida Department of Education for showing her students the 2022 movie "Strange World" – one of the first Disney films to have an openly LGBTQ+ character in a central role.
The school board and state department of education both opened an investigation into Barbee, who has argued that the Disney movie related to a class Earth science lesson and did not show sexually inappropriate content. The animated movie follows a family of explorers on an adventure to save a plant that is their society’s source of energy...
Lisa Masserio, president of the Hernando Classroom Teachers' Association, said Tuesday's agenda had 33 resignations of "educators leaving our district, possibly leaving teaching entirely, after what they've experienced this year."
According to Masserio, the number of resignations have doubled since May 2022. She said the current political climate and politically motivated attacks have affected educator morale, "making educators question whether this is the right place for them."...
"We can no longer sit back and allow the Hernando County school system to make national news for its poor decisions, lack of transparency and accountability, and its contempt for parental rights," their statement reads.
Youth Poet Laureate's poem blocked: Florida school blocks younger students from reading Amanda Gorman's 'The Hill We Climb' poem
Don't let the Ayatollah of the Swamp befoul the nation!