'Outrageous': Don Lemon reacts to Florida book law championed by DeSantis
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2024
- Efforts are underway in Florida counties to comply with a law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that requires the approval of books in classroom libraries, leaving some teachers feeling fearful and confused. #CNN #News
This is what your freedom looks like under the GOP. F insanity.
Surely you still not under the illusion one party is good and the other bad? Both parties are devoid of any morals.
*MESSAGE FROM EUROPE* glad to see you are at the "making books illegal" stage of fascism over there...!!! Going great - we tried it in the 1930's it worked out JUST FINE
Yeah and im sure the EU is just everyones idea of a good time isn't it?
@@georgejung9055 Yes, it is far more preferable to your idealized authoritarian death state George.
LOL, CNN is propaganda and it's sad that you're being played by anti-American liberals.
@@georgejung9055 This is a national embarrassment. If you’re for this nonsense you are an embarrassment too.
Removing pornographic books from elementary schools is... not quite the same as what the fascists did in the '30s. Nobody's saying grown adults can't enjoy these books.
So much energy going into a non issue, when there is so many real problems facing children.
Black History Black Authors doesn't mean anything to you but to black people like me it does.
The Real American History bigots are afraid of.
@@dedricklucious4255 What dose that have to do with anything?
@@crazybirdybird4312 Republikkklans want to white wash black history horrific events out of American history books.
Republikkklans are afraid of the real American history so they want watered down history books filled with bullshit!!
I wish some parents would have the same energy for social media that they have for books in their children schools.
Amen Amen yesssss👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
He MAKES me sick to my stomach glad i don't hav any children in SCHOOL!!!
the book gender queer should never ever be permitted in primary school. perhaps middle school, but certainly not primary school. and who is to day parents are not putting energy into their kids social media accounts? i certainly am.
They are both insanely valid issues.
They aren't telling you what these books are. The stuff in elementary school libraries is OUTRAGEOUS.
This is why more and more teachers are leaving the profession.
Woke teachers😢
@@marclewis1199 You sound triggered, dear. Leave the crazies and join the Democrats.
@@marclewis1199👈🏻❄️🐑
Gotta admire your Trump University Pride.
“LETS GO TRAITORS!”
“LETS GO TRAITORS!”
“LETS GO TRAITORS!”
MAGA DUM LOUDLY
@@marclewis1199 woke=educated
@liberal halfbreeds👈🏻❄️🐑
I would bet at least 80% of the parents who support this would freak out if the banned the Bible from the library because lets be honest there are some pretty adult stuff in there.
At the 3:00 mark the criteria presented bans the christian bible. Lot and his daughters comes to mind.
Hey fool... just keep voting for democrats so YOUR children will get what is comming to them because of YOUR vote! lol
I think bibles MUST be banned!
A parent in Florida was successful in getting a book filled with more violence, murder, rape, and incest than any of the books that school district had already banned. You guessed it. It was the Bible. The school board published a list of the issues that would get a book removed, and the board's published policy stated it would ban any book if it contained one issue from that list. The Bible contained several. I was surprised the board stood by their own policy, but I also think most boards don't like book banning. What's good for the goose...
Parents in all the districts (or whatever organizational level this is happening at) need to file complaints about the Bible.
Recall in 2020 Ron Desantis tried to fire a large number of teachers. He then learned there was already a large shortage in Florida! This is Florida's version of "Fahrenheit 451!"
Every teacher in Florida should just walk out.
You support drag shows in schools?
Every woke teacher should quit. They will be fired soon anyway - in areas that still have a memory of what morals are.
This is not about education it is about mind control. They want to dictate what our children should learn. As a parent I am here to offer guidance to my children, NOT to control the information of history and to promote a narrative that suite my world view. THAT IS INDOCTRINATION.
And racist
Some real Big Brother 💩
Go home school your children, oh wait you women wanna work not stay home. Plus kids should learn about their race elsewhere from school, politics made public school trash but not as bad as California.
@@jd0604 it is our problem reality is ugly but you cant paint it into something beautiful thats horrible and wrong misleading
@@sudorights awe.... poor incel. Try to be less triggered 🤡
I want a list of banned books !!
And who are you?
Is that so you can go to a bookstore to buy them?
They're on google
@@rw9573 not a troll unlike u
@@gerardflynn7382 maga loves the uneducated
People like this want to turn the clocks back not just on this subject, but on plenty of other subjects too . Most Americans want to move forward and celebrates the progress that we have made and what our heroes have fought and died for. Florida is not the whole USA thank God. He won't be able to convince the majority of Americans that he is right.
amen. He won't be able to compete nationally with this mess.
It's so depressing that people of my generation are pushing these types of policies.
What policies do you disagree with? Let me guess. You have no idea, just that CNN said so.
is don lemon advocating that the book "gerder queer" should be in primary schools? because don..... i don't think this book should be in primary schools. sorry don.
@@robryan751 The book ban law, man, did we watch the same video??
@@nickyalousakis3851 Yet florida this week banned a perfectly reasonable poem about bravery and coming together and rising to the occasion. What do you think is the color and gender of the person who wrote it?
@@pluckybellhop66 -- i'm not so into 'banning' literature.... unless it's in schools and has to have a justified reason for doing so. which poem was banned?
I wouldn't want to be a teacher if I was under the threat of arrest for teaching facts!
I dont understand how queer studies has anything to do with African American history?
I’ve heard some of the garbage that’s in these books. You can watch the videos here on RUclips.
@@TheMangoAnglo_onTwitter Writers like James Baldwin and others who made contributions to the culture who are Black and Queer! So? Desantis wants to ban an expanded course in African American History in Florida High Schools from the smart kids, huh? While European, Italian, German and even Japanese history remains! That is textbook Racism! And already you can see the kinship of Desantis to fellow Italian Mussolini! It's pretty clear Desantis is a card carrying Racist and Bigot! Specifically targeting black voters who are ex felons who are allowed to vote, removing drop boxes in African American communities, banning books with African American content, childish spiteful Trump like stunts like Busing brown migrants to other cities..etc... Desantis is just another White man afraid their Spawn will learn from American and African American history what an abomination their ancestors were and afraid it would hurt their little brats feelings!
@@TheMangoAnglo_onTwitter They are different topics. What's your point, dear?
@@marclewis1199 Funny, that's what the Brownshirts said in the 30's
I taught in Florida. We can’t get parents to respond to an email, but they want the ability to tell us what to teach…
Well when then right decides to politicize education- this is what you get.
EXACTLY WHO do you think should tell you what to teach? WHOSE kids are they anyway, and who is paying a teacher's salary? Wow. You clearly demonstrate the problem. Parents lost touch, and teachers started assuming the role of parents. Fortunately, parents are beginning to wake up now. Thank you for this comment.
@@dodieodie498 The parents teaching degree is from? This is like the argument that a lawyer must use the specified legal argument of a client who lacks all consent.
@@starbuksman LOL, state sponsored cancel culture on steroids.
@@dodieodie498 OK WHO has a degree in Teaching and who does not PARENTS are in charge at HOME NOT at school !
Unbelievable! Censorship! Disgraceful. I was reading adult novels since fifth grade! My parents never restricted our reading of any materials, though they did say to ask them any questions I had.
Mine, too, and I was never harmed by reading or learning new things...
@@carolekjellander8917 I guess that depends on your definition of "harm". Which is the real problem, since these people see children growing up with critical thinking abilities to have been harmed by the system. Kudos to your parents.
What happened to children after they started releasing teen magazines. The anorexia and bulimia kicked into high levels. What do you think is happening now that they have confused children with all these extra toppings.
Children are battling body changes because of puberty, this will make most of them vulnerable. Their brain's haven't done growing until 25ish. So think about it, really think about the negative effects of exposing them to things they can't even fully understand.
@rainbow Autobiographies written by victims of child abuse and theocratic fascism are being banned. It’s as if these people are intentionally depriving children of resources that would help them recognize that their environment is detrimental to their health under the guise of “think of the children.” This is evil.
@@carolekjellander8917 how about the lgbtq info - are you a supporter?
Those parents who "aren't comfortable" not knowing what's in a book never read books. 🙄
All the guns you want but somehow books are the problem 😒
Clearly you don't read much anyway, or you would be able to recognize propaganda. 🤫🤮🤏
TRUMP FACEBOOK AGAIN.
I hear 1984 and Animal Farm are on the list, I wonder why?
@@kevingrant404 Reading is why everyone ditched the right wing propaganda, who told Republicans that JFK JR is still alive, and is going to support an orange turd terrorist cult leader at Dallas.
@@EduardoOliveira-zx4yj - He thought there were airports during the revolutionary war. He thought he was president for decades. He forgot that he knew Silk of Diamond & Silk.
Your failures are not our fault. They are your fault. Sorry.
most Americans aren't that anti-intellectual and they will really resent them going after a Nobel Prize winner who people have described as just one of the great writers of world literature. It's too bad for those Republicans that the majority of people do see the facts that they are indeed going after famous authors like Toni Morrison. Her novels have inspired many generations within schools, and she is literally one of the great American writers. Forget what color she is, she is just a brilliant writer. For all of the republican rhetoric, they can try and go after our heroes and try and knock down our statutes.
Floridians keep voting for these people and supporting them. 😅
In Denmark we have big libraries for everyone and we have school libraries. There are no books in classes. We don't ban books from the state level. We learn about sex, racism, war, death etc. In those first 9⃣ years of school.
Sounds like a good system, and pretty peaceful, Denmark! 👍
*waves from Norway. I'm so glad I raised my son here. I was so impressed that the schools here had both 'Social Studies' and 'Ethics and Religions' classes. The kids learn to discuss topics in class with respect and learn how to regulate their emotions from an early age. He never would have gotten that where I grew up in the US. Granted, I had to subsidise the science curriculum myself, but with no family here, I was very glad for the, mostly, healthy socialising at school.
Do your schools have copies of Mein Kampf?
Don't buy into this CNN/liberal bulls@@@, the left hates America and wants to teach propaganda. They support drag shows and adult men dancing in front of children in very little clothing. I hope you don't support that.
@Pyladin maybe since you’re so so educated and tolerant over there in Denmark /s, research which books are being banned!!!
these book ban advocates are same parents who wouldn't recognize their kid's math or science book if you smacked them in the head with it.
Same type of parents that tried to ban music in the 70’s. If you ban something everyone will want to know why. It doesn’t work fascist DeSantis!
@@JBravo69 Yeah the beatles and elvis presley was the devil religious people sade. Same Mentality as the Religios people in IRAN and ISIS.
@@JBravo69 You're right. I wonder how long this conservative BS lasts? The young people are tired of this too
I bet half of them couldn't name all of their kid's teachers, either.
@@aliceinwonderland887 It will past until young adults start showing up to vote. If 80% of those 18-30yo voted, in 6 years, over 2/3 of both chambers of Congress would be Democrat. Young voters are far more likely to vote Democrat but only 12-14% even vote. They have the largest number of people but vote in the lowest number.
Book banning is disgusting! Glad I am Canadian😁
Lots of people are cool with porn in school libraries i see...sorry but as a mother, seeing the books that were actually banned, it's sad that this was necessary but those books were not appropriate for schools.
Isn’t it ironic that some of these social media “ parents “
agree to ban books they’ve never read. More importantly they should ban children from owning phones that are addictive & contain explicit material.
Good point kids have access to everything through their phones and any parents that would stupidly support this have most likely given their children phones or access on the internet.
Now I could get down with that! Smart phones are indoctrinating & grooming the kids! And it's the PARENTS that give them the phones & it's the PARENTS that should be held accountable! Excellent idea! 🥰
@@rachelkristine4669 lol grooming. What?
@@rachelkristine4669 My son has strict phone rules. He controls everything through his phone. Phone turns on at 9 am off 9 pm. He can not google anything without his permission, he has to unlock only the things his kids asked to do homework and such. My son caught his son at a site not fit for any humans. If the parents care they can do this to their kids phones. They just have to take the time.
The beatles and elvis presley was the devil religious people sade. Same Mentality as the Religious people in IRAN and ISIS. always trying to show they are dictators and lack the knowledge to listening to others
If some of these parents actually picked up a book and read once and awhile they would be more knowledgeable! I know grown adults who brag about not reading a book once they left school….
I know adults who say "I don't want to learn anything new." and are proud of it.
Jeez, get a grip people. The books aren't even banned from the school's main library or even from public libraries in Florida. Parents just want their kids to be taught reading, writing and arithmetic. That shouldn't be asking too much!? Primary and secondary school are different in orientation. In primary school, every subject is taken by the same group of students. That is, they all go to music class together, for the purpose of familiarity. Once they enter secondary school there is more choice in subjects. Not everyone takes the same subjects, and every class has a new set of students. This prepares secondary school students for university and college, where students are exposed to new people at almost every turn, building social skills and helping students adapt to new situations. All those other things that are uncomfortable to talk about...that can wait until college. Our kids can learn that like everyone else does.
Thank you for speaking out, Don! Outrageous is an understatement.
If you find the law disturbing, you most be part of the group of woke people that are causing this problem. I you that you are not a teacher. You should not be around kids. You are an enemy to humanity.
Propaganda Don
Don is lying to you. You need to look into This so called "banning of books" is not banning black history. These books that are being banned are inundated with associating black culture with queer and trans culture. These books need to be banned because they are indoctrinating people in to thinking that black culture and queer & trans are one in the same. Ron desantis has nothing against teaching black history. Desantis is completely for teaching black history that is correct, but these books that are being banned are not correct and and is trying to rewrite actual history that does not exist.
Just like the so-called "don't say gay bill" people will blindly listen to CNN and not go look at the actual subject. For those that do check for themselves are amazed at just how blatant CNN lies within their propaganda.
These books are lying about history with their propaganda and for that fact they should not be allowed to indoctrinate children with fake history lies.
Don Lemon is ignorant. He plays on “book burning” hysteria without explaining the real reason the law was put in place. The education system should not be teaching children about sexuality at this age. Parents should have a say in what information is being taught/forced in this case to their children. And finally, Don Lemon who is facing a sexual assault case has no place criticizing anyone on this matter!
I know.. it's DUMB.
Remember reading Fahrenheit 451 for school when I was a kid and thinking how silly it was. No way that'd ever happen in real life. All these years later and it's actually happening. How this isn't alarming everyone is beyond concerning.
How bizarre you didn't see it as the warning it is.
Should children read age appropriate material?
Is that book burning or good parenting?
Everyone's too busy buying nft images of cadet bone spurs.
@@davidrobertsemail they should but parents should make that case in the checking out not removing books entirely. We don't have to push extremes on forcing books to be read or banning books entirely. Let parents choose what their kids can be exposed too when it comes to literature and meet at the middle
@@hopeintruth5119 parents should not have to meet in the middle when you are talking about indoctrinating children.
Fahrenheit 451 was supposed to be a work of fiction, NOT a guidebook...
I have that book in my library. Is that next?
As 1984 (George Orwell) was to be a warning of what may happen.
@@regu6582 ... and don't forget "The Handmaid's Tale"...
@@duckBarman Yep.
I think that's where they are getting some of the playbook from too.
Many of these parents are UNEDUCATED themselves, so pls, tell me how the hell they know what should/shouldn’t be taught!
The level of a parents education or lack thereof is grounds for teachers having authority over what a child is exposed to?
You're not very smart, dear.
Parents didn't ask for this Governor DeSantis 🙄 😒
Will the Bible pass the test? I think not!
Yeah the Bible is full of incest and violence.
They already banned the bible in Florida schools along with books about Anne Frank.
Well, God committed genocide on 99.9999% of the worlds population during the flood, only allowing Noah and his family (and animals) to survive. Makes him the worst mass murderer in history.
Sure as hell hope not.
Ew. that has no place in public school. Ironically the conservative right will probably allow it.
This has never been a damn problem. This is insane and really disturbing.
I remember it was the Harry Potter books in the 90s it’s always been a thing they ignorant want you to be just like them
what's insane?
Its called church and state.
@@mrrey8937 - Clearly you're not paying attention 🤦
@@davidpaul6656 No son, your not paying attention. There is a Black History Course Requirement as part of the core curriculum in Florida. What DeSantis did, is he banned a separate course that was teaching black history with "queer theory" on top. The Black History curriculum is still required as apart of the requirements and available just without the "queer theory". The same thing with CRT. What is happening is that cnn isnt telling you the full story as to how it was that DeSantis started this over a year ago and the history of indoctrination of children that have no maturity or business learning about at such a young age.
And as the children get older, they will wonder why things were hidden from them and will resent it.
@Prasanth Thomas I resent that the history behind Stonewall, or the meaning of PRIDE celebrations, and the Trail of Tears were not available. I was an avid reader, but didn't know about Juneteenth or the meaning behind it until I lived in the South in my 40's. I was never taught about the Japanese interment camps in the US until I read about George Takai. I didn't know that LGBTQ+ people were also forced to wear symbols and were put in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Yes I resent that.
@Prasanth Thomas a Nobel Prize winner who people have described as just one of the great writers of world literature. I mean, why are the Toni Morrison Books Frequent Targets of Book Bans? It's is such anti-intellectualism. Morrison is one of the great American authors and now republicans are going after our heroes. This is the message through congress they want to send and they are running on it.
@Prasanth Thomas Some are scared to face the truth. Toni Morrison wrote 'Beloved' novel which is about the complexity of those enslaved where anyone is able to look at slavery through a new lens. Through the eyes of an individual. Suddenly, it is easier to understand slavery not as just an injustice that happened to a group of 600,000 people in the United States, but happened to actual individuals. People with their own uniqueness and personalities. This happened to mothers, fathers, daughters and sons. To people who, just like us, had dreams and fears. To people who, just like us, had loved ones. This Novel helps those certain people who want to minimizes the impact Slavery, from thinking about slavery as just a massive event that happened to thousands of people; but instead look at it as an injustice that could have happened to any person in your family, because this happened to people-individual people who actually exist.
yes they will
@@klh800 in today's times, children are getting smarter and smarter and more resourceful, so they will learn the truth much earlier.
I am guessing the Constitution of the United States does not apply to Florida.
I’m sure they don’t know what that is seeing as how everything he does is tyrannical and they made him the governor. It’s a sad,pathetic, uneducated state.
You'd think he'd spend all that energy in raising his state's national academic average.
Well he certainly took a big step to prevent the states kids from getting dumber. No grooming.
I would never think deathsantis would do that.
It’s Florida, let’s not get carried away
@@beaur252 why is it that liberal states outperform red states in math and reading? If states like MA don't know how to educate, why do their students do much better than FL students on almost all objective measures?
We're already higher academically than lots of other States. Sorry to burst your bubble
I live in Florida and I can’t believe this is happening! I am so glad my child is an adult. This is crazy!
Yeah but what about your future grandkids, your cousins, the white floridain kids who become indoctrinated and grow up to make even more draconian laws which could be designed based off your skin color. It's levels to this nonsense.
Dont beleive what CNN says... all lies.. propaganda
We are going backwards while other countries are advancing at a very fast pace!
We each passing day, we are becoming less of a super power country.
@@A_Legal_Immigrant_1776 If I was a clueless moron that didn't understand what A.P. was in a educational setting, I would think it was propaganda too... but luckily I'm not a clueless moron.
Fla? You like old people and traffic and water water water? Fla is sinking and it can go. Bye!
The same folks who talk about "parents rights", are the same ones who don't discipline their kids, don't take an interest in their kids studies, and then turn around and think they can boss around the teachers. Teach your own damn kids if you want that much control over your kid's education
I would agree except then these kids will be just as ignorant and bigoted as their brainless parents.
@@peggyhansen8018 Fair point
I have no problem banning books inappropriate for children. I applaud Obi Ron Kenobi👏👏👏
Why would someone want their kid to read a book about rape and miscarriage?
When DeSantis banned the AP African American History class, he sure as hell wasn't thinking about the rights of parents (especially Black parents) to select an OPTIONAL course for their kids. And then he stood at a podium and said "we want teach our children facts and HOW TO THINK"! If that's not indoctrination l don't know wtf is. 🤯
you conveniently omitted why he didn't want the course taught.
@@Robert-lu3rz oh, sorry. Because he thinks that he owns the rights to cancel culture, AND he's a fascist.
@@Robert-lu3rz Why didn't he want it taught? Enlightened us.
@@AK.126 it's "woke", meaning you may learn something outside of the white privileged POV he wants to convey. We can't have the masses learning about reality, it takes away from their control. But yea...the "free" state of FL. I hope Disney leaves and finds a better location, I hate flying there and giving that state my $
@Paying more will save the planet. thank you for actually having the facts
From Europe (Germany): go ahead, Florida! WE know, where those things end .... Shall I send you a box of matches for a bonfire that starts with books, and does not stop short of human lives? (Sorry for the cynicism).
well said. This so-called flag-loving, freedom-loving morons don't even get the irony.
I think parents want no books in a classroom beyond textbooks. Then they won’t have to be responsible for discussing topics with their children.
Which is odd since so many children have to deal with divorce, school shootings, bullying, poverty, abuse, low self esteem, depression and the list goes on. Life can be enjoyed but everything in life is not candy and rainbows and when its not it has to be addressed. How did that become a bad thing? Also If we are going to discuss the history of the U.S. then you you have to discuss the good the bad and the ugly of it all, not just the so called feel good stuff.
Teachers now are teaching morality. That is never their area.
As an educator, I know that parents already have a seat at the table. Unfortunately, that seat is empty because they never show up... until their kid is failing, and then it becomes my fault that I "didn't contact the parent", when there were numerous calls made and ignored.
United States public education in a nutshell. Thank you Jaiden, this generation looks to be the most illiterate in decades.
Parents relying on schools to teach everything, is the problem. It starts at home.
Do parents have a seat at the table when they start teaching gender studies or queer theories?
@@jaydoggy456 ngl it is funny to hear people who probably never set foot in a graduate seminar tossing out terms like "gender studies" and "queer theory" (which is singular)
75% of inner-city kids are unable to read, write or calculate basic math, so.....
I'd say the educators have failed to educate. They just collect a paycheck and don't care about the students who are struggling. And on top of it peddling literature that is perverse and racist. Thank God America has ONE decent Governor.
"This is completely outrageous." Exactly, and why isn't the entire nation up in arms about this???
IDK. It's the mentality of the south rearing its ugly head. States with the most poverty and most racism and most fear continuing on the path of idiocy.
I am alarmed. But also amused: these fear mongers seem to forget that about every kid has the internet in their pocket. They have everything in their phones.
It's about control and indoctrination. Distain of science and truth. It's not going anywhere productive.
@@donnavorce8856 I've spent some time wondering about this myself. (Not to go "there") but I've often wondered if Barron Trump does the same thing as my kids...watch the world on their phones and form their own opinions about social issues and world events. All of them veered towards the side of science and truth, especially by their mid-teens, thankfully.
I WILL DECIDE what books my kid can and can't read, not some whole 1000 miles away who doesn't even know me.
There is no such thing as Executive Privileges. He's not King or Dictator and needs to be challenged.
Thus is the Germany with hiter. Books are free speech. Tell parents to be parents and teach their children to be open minded. This is a free country.
My kid will read every book they ban. The kids are laughing at parents who support this. Middle schoolers think adults are manipulated red necks getting upset over stupid non existent problems.They are dying for a list of banned books. They all hate Desantis and his anti lbtgq bull. Gen Z is an open, inclusive, intelligent generation!
So if my 13 year old is advanced, she's breaking the law by reading a college level math book? It's not age appropriate...these people are actually insane
@Paying more will save the planet. It's not. Kids are way smarter than people give them credit for. Math can be very difficult. I'm actually very good at math, but I personally couldn't get a hold of it until college. When I was a child my parents who grew up during Jim Crow were raised as Quakers, idk if you know about Quakers but it's the belief that we are all God's children, he doesn't pick favorites...nor does he turn his back on a child for being raised with different beliefs. My parents didn't understand the cruelty and different treatment, so they left Texas and went to New York got into the jazz scene and made friends. Later still searching for equality with the hippies. However, they made sure I understood the truth of it early on. Growing up in a almost totally white community, they read me black fables and histories, sad stuff like Tar Baby...and because they treated me like I should be able to understand I did. I didn't find myself hating all white people or myself I was not confused about the history. I wasn't indoctrinated into anything. I'm just a person who believes children are smart and strong, that understanding each other is important and that everyone no matter their skin color, history, religion, strengths or weaknesses is equal in the universe that made them...we are all atoms and the closest we can get to God on earth is enlightenment, but that doesn't come through prayers or meditation it comes from education. Bring kids closer to God, tell them the truth. No kid is going to break because their great-great grandmother was a part of slavery or homosexual. Kids don't feel that connection with the dead that adults who have loved and lost do.
LOL, you clearly watch too much CNN
@@BishopWalters12 I didn't get any of that from CNN. 🙄
@@lfeb That's good but your point still falls flat and you're pushing a BS narrative.
That's not what this is about.
This is about shielding our children from things that would, spiritually, predispose them to darkness/satanicassignments!
A child exposed to some erotica can really ruin a child.
Why are teachers scared, it's coward to me to let this man do what ever he want to do... Stand up for what's right!
Hilarious considering what kind of stuff kids can see on the Internet, without supervision.
You could always deal with both of those issues instead of being complacent to both.
doesn't make grooming children on the tax payer dollar right
Agree totally!!!! Santis is an idiot.
Not assigned by a teacher. You are correct though but thats where the parents come in............hopefully
77 people just said, they already have access the inappropriate stuff so who cares what they see at school...😳 no wonder things are going down hill fast.
I'm glad a few people are smart enough not to give up on our children.
There’s MUCH WORSE written, verbal and etc communication going on in the hallways and on the school bus than in ANY book.
or at homes....
@Justin Ortiz you seem like you don't understand the topic.
@@Tsmith-nd6bl you seem like you don’t understand the meaning of censorship.
@Free Man …for what? A dumb excuse for what?
@CallieMae I wasn't disagreeing with you, I'm on your side. Read justin ortiz comment. He was making a racist comment about you being black.
Cnn wont show the books and the material that desantis is banning from childrens classrooms…Wonder why… if they really wanted to make a point, wouldnt they show how benign the material is? They cant because alot of the material being banned cant be shown on live, public television due to restrictions.
So sad for the Florida teacher..they all need to boycott..they was trained to teach not DeSantis..
It's a shame that this is absolutely not about children... It's all about the adults back in the sandbox.
It is about children. Repubs don't groom kids. Repubs want to stop hatred.
@@eby2257 what ?????
@@eby2257 What? Your incredible backwards thinking is what's wrong with this country. Mental gymnastics at it's finest.
@@eby2257Repubs like Gaetz and Boeberts hubby?
@@eby2257 Republicans are the biggest grooming party 🤣
The kids can start a BANNED book club & meet off school grounds. The parents can order cases of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison & leave the boxes where the book club members can pick them up for distribution. In high school, we read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It made me value my freedom to read.
We shouldn't have to meet off ground to educate our children or ourselves, we are allowing the GOP republicans to dicate whom we are as a country, our freedoms, our rights.
i don’t think you guys know the books that they want to ban 😂😂
Banning books is a leftist pass time now its a problem when it has porn in it or uses black people as a guise for gender theory. You guys are so disgustingly easily to manipulate its disturbing.
@@nicholassimmons9066 tell us then.
@@jacksoncowsert6964 Why dont you ?
nothing bizarre about banning homo-teaching books to kids
TEACHERS & STUDENTS NEED TO STRIKE. TIME TO MAKE MORE NOISE THAN DESANTIS DOES FOR HIMSELF.
54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level. So of course these adults should decide what the children can or cannot read. sigh.
Any whacko can make up the curriculum any way they like, teaching anything they like, and the parents or governor should have no say at all... Got it.. And you wonder why so many folks think liberals are flat out nuts....
In America? I didn't know that, how sad.
Is that U.S. statistics? If so,wouldn't surprise me. Just shows the majority of the general public is dumb.
I've had a go at science writing for a while and had a few things published, but I would keep getting told, 'You have to write for a 10 year old, Avie.' 'Remember not to use so many science terms that you can't also explain what they mean to a 10 year old.' It was too frustrating. I now write only for my own pleasure and folks want to read it, they can.
That rate must be much, much higher in Florida. The functional literacy rate is much higher in the developing world.
The American Taliban hard at work. How long will Americans stand for this fascism?
You WILL love your country
You WILL not question your leaders
You WILL not read unapproved books
You WILL not learn history
You WILL obey - in the name of “freedom”.
Sounds familiar to me, when a group of people wasn't allowed to read books. They are trying to hide their shameful history from the younger generation, but it's too late for that. The only thing they need is a electronic and internet.
One more thing... all the banned books are online. So Ron, are you banning books on the internet as well?
There's a radical group in DC now attempting to ban tiktok. So yes - the gears are turning. What with about 134 election deniers sitting IN CONGRESS RIGHT NOW we are facing immense dangers to the structure of our nation.
One book that has more violence, including rapes,murders, and incest than any of the books Florida and Texas has already banned will remain in school libraries. It's the Bible, and if I lived in one of those states, I'd demand it be removed.
He knows his constituents don't read.
All you need to have is a kindle app, and you can read any book on your computer. Kids aren't reading physical books anymore anyway.
The problem is that by banning them in schools, kids don't have the opportunity to learn about the context or to discuss the ideas. Education is supposed to teach our kids how to think, not what to think.
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Speak out,
You've got to speak out against the madness"
RIP David Crosby
@Matt, “never forget, never again “ the cry of the 60’s anti war movement. Sadly lost to history. And Joe’s making it happen again
We must encourage all our impressionable youth to explore anything that comes into their minds.
This is probably another case of DeSantis passing an unconstitutional law. Gets overturned in court. Wastes more taxpayers money.
Why are you quoting a man who drugged and raped woman?
@@mrvlsmrv Hitler did the same thing. And the books were burned. The only alternative, if the parent is a responsible parent, get talking books or download them. To think people want deathsantis for president!!.
If teachers don’t like the law, they should undermine it. Keep introducing new titles that have to be reviewed. Inundate the system till there’s a huge backlog that would take years to work through. Make the law problematic to maintain. That’s how you break this.
What is wrong with people ? Books, criminal charges?
If you want to know what your kids are reading, ask them, and then read the book also.
I’ve read several books that my (MS aged) kids were assigned, mostly because they enjoyed the book and thought I would as well.
You want to read those q u e e r books with your kids??? Sure
Have you read any of the books DeSantis says are objectionable, or do you just accept everything he tells you like a good, little sheep?
Why are people worried about kids learning things from books kids don’t read books
What better way to guide children and young adults through social situation’s than to read books that are historic or were written by famous author’s when you get together and discuss them in class and understand the context better. This is where children learn to express their opinions and have respectful conversation. When I grew up, we had some thing called “Great Books” And we read F Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, we discussed the great Gatsby, and the Scarlett Letter, And the transcendental period. Henry David Thoreau, Edgar, Allan Poe, Walt Whitman. What children see play out in their homes with second, third, fourth marriages and arguments over custody and religion is far worse than anything they could read and discuss in the classroom. In Europe art, history and literature are studied as part of historic record and place events such as wars and societies in context. The US would do well to follow this example Given that we are losing our international stature in education.
Europe with all the white people HA!! Ain't you paying attention!?!?
WTF, why would any parent want to limit their kid from reading??? If your kid wants to read a book you don’t support, let them read, but you should also read it, then you can talk about it… this is called “learning”… the problem is these parents won’t make this type of effort…
These parents haven't read a book in 30 years. They learn all they need from Fox news.
They will find out about fruit loops soon enough and the normal among them will be just as revolted by it as the vast majority already is.
The weirdos will,whether they like it or not,leave our kids alone - watch and see.
Remember DeSantis wants only certain parents have a seat at the table.
another Misguided troll😢
@@n_rameo4585 yes you are.
Ones that are actually concerned.
Yes, "woke", far left ideologues that think drag queen story hour is a good idea for children should definitely be excluded.
@@jonathanrandall4140
But preforming violent exorcisms on your kids is fine right?
All books have a purpose. Are you kidding....no book burning
Freedom of speech and press
No books have been banned in Florida. Restricted does not equal banned. Stop being hysterical.
Most parents can't even help their small children with homework. You think they know the ins and outs of any curriculum?
My mother went to a Catholic high school in the 1950s. A nun “caught” my mother reading Gone with the Wind which she had gotten out of a public library. She took the book from my mother and burned it. Florida really wants us to return to those days?
No, that is too liberal for DeSantis.
You support drag shows in schools?
@@BishopWalters12 I don't support children being sexually abused by those creepy guys wearing the cloth...ministers, priest and clergy. Good looking out that you crawl over the hundreds of thousands of children molested and raped by the clergy in the history of the US to go check out those drag queens. Guess you want to save child sexual abuse for religious leadership, huh, Bishop? Because you really "love" children. We see right through your concern.
@@BishopWalters12 Because not wanting a book ban is the same as wanting drag show in schools.
@@Whitehero26 Who's banning books? the left wants propaganda about race, gender and other things in schools. Common sense people are saying no but nobody is banning you from getting these books at a library or online. Why doesn't the left stand against drag shows in schools?
They are not afraid of books, they are afraid of independent, critical thinking.
Liberal propaganda pushers? I agree
They’re afraid of the minds of young impressionable children being destroyed.
@@jayya.8232 its cute that you believe that.
No we're afraid of our children thinking debased lifestyle is normal.
What is going on with the lawsuit against DeSantis and Florida regarding the rejection of the AP African History Studies course? Does anyone know?
Teachers of Florida quit now, every state in the union needs more teachers. You will be happily in Braves and states that will let you teach complete versions of history. As well as discussing current events in their full scope. Teacher should never have to face of felony for teaching.
I Agree, all the woke teachers should quit right now.
MELANIA IS A GOVERNESS BEAUTIFUL !
Indoctrinating and teaching are not the same. Want to indoctrinate go to CA.
@@tommartinez62 So then you're against Huckabees children's books being distributed to schools and libraries?
When I was a kid, teachers were paid diddlysquat which resulted in chronic teacher shortages. Teachers were just absent or MIA all the time. The school would send a custodian, who was actually paid better, out on the street corner with a large pole-net to capture what they called "substitutes". These substitutes would sit with their feet up on the teacher's desk, ear plugs inserted, reading a paperback the entire period while the students goofed off in every way possible. That's what happens when you can't fill the teaching positions with passionate, competent people. Sounds like Florida may be rapidly headed in that direction again.
Wow....The Bluest Eye....?? I really want to know what their reasoning was after reading 'the entire book' what the takeaway was. I grew up in Houston and we read this in high school in mixed Ethnicity class groups ....great discussions - no one felt disenfranchised. In fact, it was one of the books that gave non-black folks a way to understand and also black folks to examine their own internal societal blind spots. And for such a decorated author, they really want to make much ado about nothing to keep us the public from really talking about things that matter. Let's be clear about this tactic, there are more important things to be talking about but as long as they keep doing the silly laws little focus will be put on things that really affect people and they are in essence creating the divine because it was not an issue for decades, how is it now an issue when it was not an issue 30+ years ago? That's the real crux of the issue.
30 years ago. most parents didn't realize what books were in the school libraries. Toni Morrison's books are FILTHY in language. If a parent at home wants to buy the book for their child at home then go for it. It doesn't belong in a public school. Neither does nudity or gender studies. Maybe more science and math would be better.
Keep in mind that half those making these recommendations are barely literate. They haven't even read most of these books. They are more worried that their children will be smarter than them.
Removing books that help us learn about and understand people not like ourselves in some way deepens the divide between us all
@@janiceworthington9176 Most parents don't think transgender studies should be taught in school. More math and science!!!!
@@lotsoffun4716: Then "most parents" would be wrong. It's never detrimental to learn about perspective by taking a walk in another person's shoes. That's what literature gives us---the opportunity to examine worlds different than our own, expanding our minds as we take in more knowledge, and perhaps, learning to be tolerant once we understand the hardships, and the triumphs, that others face. Education is never wrong, but censorship always is. Censorship breeds ignorance, and what DeSantis is doing in Florida is nothing other than intolerance, and dressing it up like he's protecting students, is pure fallacy.
Take a look at Florida's history of slavery and post Civil War KKK activity that goes on and on right up to this day.
I don’t have a problem with books in schools being looked at with all this “woke” nonsense about “fruits” &” transforms” I also don’t have a problem with Governor DeSantos would like to do.
Some books are not made for school libraries
Parents can be given a list of books and they can decide if they want their children to read them or not. This is censorship.
I don’t let my 10 year old watch R rated movies.
That’s not censorship it’s parenting.
@@davidrobertsemail Right, it's parenting, versus government-mandated.
@@davidrobertsemail yeah cuz porn/R rated movies are the same as children book🙄 smh going to 1984
parents have always had the ability to tell the school they don't want their kids to have access to certain books, this is the government telling schools not to make these books available to ANY child, even if their parents are fine with it
That's assuming the parents can read. That's asking allot these days.
This is getting out of control, so much for “small government” and “freedom” huh? 🤔
Exactly. This country has been shit for far too long . Burn it and get it over with… seems like that’s the direction it’s going in anyway
@@prasanththomas3130you must be a lazy parent
It's literally 1984 and V for Vendetta. This is how it starts. You filter out the books that contain thoughts against censorship, once the public accepts that, then they'll start taking away other things, like certain artworks at museums because they also contain things of s*xu*l and contraband nature. It will not stop I guarantee.
What about Native American history? The history before Europeans settled!
Under DeSantis, fascism is gradually taking over in the State of Florida.
@liberal halfbreeds *you're
I know this won't happen, because of felony charges, but it'd be great if all the teachers could band together and keep the books. Then as thousands of educators are arrested each and brought to court it would reflect on the idiocy of this governor.
Probably not. It's Murica now.
So you advocate pornography for minors.
someone needs to take it through the court systems all the way to the Supreme Court.
I know it is "right" controlled, but if the Supreme Court goes the wrong way on this decision it would be throwing even more ice-cold water on the country and hopefully wake up the people that think it is still okay to side with White Christian Nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and White Supremacists ... because if you side with Trumpians (including DeSantis) ... that is who you are siding with.
A far as I am concerned, if you side with White Christian Nationalists, Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, and Trumpians to overthrow the American government and society, you are a threat to America and what it stands for - you have made yourself Anti-American and just as much of a threat to America as the Axis during World War 2.
@@jamesbarnes3832 Pointless, I am afraid. Orange Hitler bought himself a fascist-leaning Supreme Court.
Last year DeSantis signed HB 1467, which barred pornography and “age inappropriate” books and required that all reading materials “be suited to student needs.” restrictions on discussing issues of gender and sexuality in early grades. Honestly do you want someone who is NOT a licensed therapist or psychologist talking to your young kids about sexuality in school. This used to be called grooming years ago.
The left wants propaganda and they hate DeSantis because he won't play that bull@@@@.
I remember watching the movie The
Color of Friendship and this is feeling like the same energy Mahree Bok describes living in apartheid South Africa.
Why are parents so worried about books when there are so many inappropriate movies, tv shows, and video games that children are watching daily.
The books aren't the point. They're trying to get as many teachers to quit as possible.
Those aren’t flammable
It's just another way to control things with extremism.
Yall are nuts. Go look up the books they are banning like Gender Queer. A parent was removed for reading it to school board members, it came from schools library. But you will project and gaslight. Nobody getting rid of to kill a mockingbird. This is where Don ended up after losing his show? Seems about right.
These children you speak of, you see them doing this everyday?? where do you find the time?? and why haven't you said anything until now!!! No wonder DeSantis is making a decision on it, he cant even trust the adults to speak up!!
This is ridiculous, parents who wanted to be this restrictive with their kids just pulled them out and homeschooled them. If homeschooling is a scheduling issue, that’s their personal problem. Other children shouldn’t be punished.
@@prasanththomas3130 If you’re fetishizing people, that’s something you should explore in therapy. Are you reading these books or are you blindly trusting political grifts?
Some are scared to face the truth. Toni Morrison wrote 'Beloved' novel which is about the complexity of those enslaved where anyone is able to look at slavery through a new lens. Through the eyes of an individual. Suddenly, it is easier to understand slavery not as just an injustice that happened to a group of 600,000 people in the United States, but happened to actual individuals. People with their own uniqueness and personalities. This happened to mothers, fathers, daughters and sons. To people who, just like us, had dreams and fears. To people who, just like us, had loved ones. This Novel helps those certain people who want to minimizes the impact Slavery, from thinking about slavery as just a massive event that happened to thousands of people; but instead look at it as an injustice that could have happened to any person in your family, because this happened to people-individual people who actually exist.
These people must not know about the internet and online books.
All the teachers in florida should just quit this is ridiculous
All wont and shouldnt quit. Nobody would miss the minority of notjob liberals though.
@@beaur252 all should quit and leave that nut case state
@@beaur252 Sadly Florida is running the largest teacher shortage in the country. That is why Ron is allowing folks with no training to teach, so yes they do miss them. It is also interesting how liberal states have the best math and science scores as well.
Florida is such a strange state. You never know what Desantis will try to ban next. I'm thankful that i don't live there.
Thankfully not my state. 🙏
Re: Classroom Libraries
I'm a retired English teacher who kept a classroom library made up of books I'd purchased or was given by parents, friends, and so on. If I were teaching in Florida today, I'd rather have no library at all rather than a censored library of books chosen by other people who do not know my students and what entice them to read. I'd likely let students know I was covering up books they were not allowed to read. I'd tell them i plan to box them up and put away at the end of the week or take home since they belonged to me. I'd also probably comment how I don't really have room at home for so many books. Then I'd turn my back on the books hoping they'd take them.
Re: Parent Rights
Parents/Guardians could also know what I was teaching. I posted on my website and gave students copies of my lesson plans to take home. At parent conferences, I now only had copies available (plus they were posted in my classroom; I also made sure parents/guardians knew how to find that information. Not all parents/guardians are professional teachers and though they may know their child, they don't know all the students in my class. Dare they tell a surgeon, "Before you remove my child's tonsils, let an outside group of people who are not surgeons examine the surgery tools you will use so I can approve them."
Re: Books Florida now bans:
I've taught a great number of the books on the list. Only once did I have a parent challenge her child reading a book -- Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. I offered an alternative book for him to read and answered questions & write essays about (rather than read nothing and draw some pictures as the parent and student suggested). The student chose to read what everyone else was reading; reading a different book left him out of the group work since no one else wanted to read the alternative. No one complained when I taught Morrison's Bluest Eye nor her Song of Solomon to high school seniors. Nor did they complain when I taught To Kill a Mockingbird including the historical background of racist systems in the U.S. that the novel references My Holocaust unit was praised by students as well as parents/guardians and administration.
I kept books in my classroom library about child abuse, racism, fascism, homelessness, poverty, and other hot button issues -- many related to current political issues -- with which my students connected. I heard many of my high school students say, "That's the first whole book I read all the way through!" as they begged for "more like this one." I was happy to oblige them and often purchased the books myself.
if you sick parents want to show your kids porn then nobody's stopping you from buying those books at home. how is this a issue
Meanwhile the kids are downloading all the banned books onto their phones. 😂
Good for them! The best way to get a kid to read something is to ban it! Stupid Republicans!
They're not banned
I wonder how many of these parents’ kids have smart phones with the internet on them.