I wrote earlier this week in a VIP post about how the AP reported on a settlement in a lawsuit brought against Florida's Parental Rights in Education law. The plaintiffs agreed to drop their suit after the following settlement as reported on by the Associated Press:
Under the terms of the settlement, the Florida Board of Education will send instructions to every school district saying the Florida law doesn’t prohibit discussing LGBTQ+ people, nor prevent anti-bullying rules on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity or disallow Gay-Straight Alliance groups. The settlement also spells out that the law is neutral — meaning what applies to LGBTQ+ people also applies to heterosexual people — and that it doesn’t apply to library books not being used for instruction in the classroom.
Gov. Ron DeSantis declared the settlement a win, but the Miami Herald didn't see it that way. They reported that DeSantis' "homophobic law" didn't survive its court challenge. That's a flat-out lie. The Parental Rights in Education law remained exactly as written, without a word added or changed. The law, which never banned any of the activities mentioned above, is completely intact, meaning that teachers can't lead instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity. This was originally limited to kindergarten through third grade (which I think was smart), but it's since been expanded to all grades. The only thing the law banned was teachers leading class discussions on "the gender unicorn" in second grade. The settlement just means the board of education will send out instructions to teachers and administrators who didn't have the reading comprehension to know what the law actually said. It never banned Gay-Straight Alliance groups or prohibited discussing LGBTQ people. Yes, even under the "Don't Say Gay" law, you were allowed to say gay in the classroom.
I don't know why they're just getting around to it now, but the Sun Sentinel has published an opinion piece saying the real winners in the settlement are the teachers who have "secured the right" to talk about their same-sex spouses.
Both sides declared victory after a settlement over Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' law. But it's clear the real winner was the side that secured the right of teachers to talk about their same-sex spouses and kids to join a Gay Straight Alliance at school. https://t.co/0jYsiIupBa pic.twitter.com/76fBhaOkzi
— Sun Sentinel Opinion (@SoFlaOpinion) March 16, 2024
They couldn't secure a right that was never taken away. It's just that now they'll get an instruction sheet.
You also forgot to mention the court confirmed @browardschools was directing teachers to have conversations on sexual identity with Kindergartners. Your paper purposely covered that up.
— Frog Capital (@FrogNews) March 16, 2024
nothing changed
— Robert Luther (@RobertLutherFL) March 16, 2024
delete your account
The editorial declared it a "compromise."
Not one word in the law was changed. The only thing that did change was the fact that the hysteric cries of don't say gay or an absolute falsehood and media manipulation.
— Joe McWopSki (@LakesFirearmsTr) March 16, 2024
Cite a single word of the law that changed.
— GumSlinger (@GumSlinger) March 16, 2024
It’s amusing how you insist your side won when literally nothing changed. Why not just admit you were wrong about how you characterized the law from the very beginning?
— Joel App (@AppyJoel) March 16, 2024
Was the law changed???
— Fortified Verdad🥶 (@TheVerdadnow) March 16, 2024
Gender Cult Sun Sentinel: No
How did you win???
Gender Cult: because we asked the state to issue a memo making it clear that the law never prohibited saying “Gay” like we told people it did
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WTF is wrong with you? The law never included those words. Why do you support indoctrinating children?
— анонимный (@DreadBobby1) March 16, 2024
Nothing was changed. Go take a nap
— Cowboys (@cowboys6010) March 16, 2024
You still can't teach about the Gender Unicorn, loser.
— IHATECA(R)DS2028 (@Inferior_court_) March 16, 2024
That's it in a nutshell. Kindergarten teachers can't lead class discussions on how doctors guess a baby's gender when it's born and sometimes get it wrong. Instruction time won't include discussions about gender identity. Teachers basically just have to teach what they're being paid to teach. The fact that they were hysterical about it is on them.
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