A fiercely debated bill that would bar instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity for young public-school students is headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis, despite...

The proposal would require that instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity “may not occur” in kindergarten through third grade. For higher grades, the bill would prohibit such instruction if it is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate as determined by state academic standards. […]

Other parts of the bill seek to prohibit schools from withholding information from parents about students’ mental or physical health and well-being.

For example, the bill says school employees “may not discourage or prohibit parental notification of and involvement in critical decisions affecting a student’s mental, emotional, or physical” health. […]

[Governor Ron] DeSantis on Monday appeared to endorse the bill, telling reporters that lawmakers are trying to ensure that parents can “send their kid to kindergarten without having some of this stuff injected into their school curriculum.” […]

If signed by DeSantis, the measure would go into effect in July.

  • Chris Remington
    6•2 years ago

    Unfortunately, when you have the GOP brainwashing America with their fundamentalist uneducated evangelical Christian cult mindset, this is what happens.

    I grew up in these circles, with people who believed that they cared about others. They may have good intentions on the surface. However, most of these people just regurgitate the talking points of the ones that are supposed to represent Americans or humans in general.

    Furthermore, most of these people do NOT have any academic understanding of classics nor biblical scholarship. This is one of the reasons that I am completely invested in r/AskBibleScholars, which I founded 4 years ago.

    Educate! And long live Beehaw!

  • @toneverends
    2•2 years ago

    Presumably this means in early schooling it’ll be prohibited for marriage, child raising, career choices, relationships, clothing choices, interests etc to be selectively portrayed in an exclusively straight cis-gendered way?

    • alyaza [they/she]M
      3•2 years ago

      ah but see it’s only a problem when The Gays are dong “propaganda” on your children, not when cishet people are