Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will lead an effort to bar schools in his state from teaching critical race theory. “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” the Republican said of efforts to restructure education to be anti-white and anti-American.“The Florida Board of Education is meeting, and they are addressing this. And I told them they need to address this, and we’ve got to do it,” the Republican said Friday.
“We’ll be taking action,” he promised. “Don’t you worry.”
DeSantis told a group of reporters that such education efforts were akin to indoctrination and that it was “offensive” to use taxpayer money to teach “kids to hate their country.”
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“I mean, first of all, it’s offensive — here we are celebrating tax savings — it’s offensive to the taxpayer that they would be asked to fund critical race theory,” the governor said, “that they would be asked to fund teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other.”
DeSantis also said these lessons taught “false history” and that he would not allow the education system to “denigrate” America’s founding.
“It’s also based on false history when they try to look back and denigrate the Founding Fathers, denigrate the American Revolution, doing all these different things that even very liberal historians say is not supported by the facts,” he explained.
The governor called proper civic education a “priority” and said he would do what it takes to stop critical race theory.
“We need to make sure civics is a priority, but it needs to be taught accurately. It needs to be taught in a fact-based way. Not an ideological-based way, and if we have to play whack-a-mole all over this state, stopping this critical race theory, we will do it,” he affirmed.
Florida is the latest state to vow action against critical race theory after the Utah Legislature passed a resolution against the adoption of certain teachings of the curriculum in schools.
