#Florida schools

[tobbogan-13]

I was bored during lunch so I was looking through clever, and I realized there was this digital theatre app (I forgot the name) but there were a TON of proshots on there Including Falsettos + like, information and interpretations of it but OF COURSE cause mr fucking ron desantis is a little sensitive snowflake it'd blocked

like yeah I have it on YouTube but it's just the principle of it

LET ME WATCH FALSETTOS

Kinky Boots was also blocked

[aunti-christ-ine]

[liquid-queer]

Today, one of my friends, a great dude who is not mean to people nearly ever and if anything is more nice than half of our school, was surrounded by a group of people. His deadname was screamed at him and they kept poking him. He now has a hurt shoulder and probable bruising due to how hard they were hitting him. And why did they do this? Because he’s trans. Because he’s not Christian. Because he is an easy target. You wanna know what happened to those who did it, mind you we only know one of the four because I wasn’t there and our other two friends only recognized one of them, but guess what. THEY WEREN’T PUNISHED! NOTHING HAPPENED, THEY DIDN’T EVEN GET A “Stern talking to”! I’m livid. You wanna know what that was? Assault. Complete with physical evidence. I am going to try to take them to court. Especially if the school doesn’t do anything. That was a hate crime and he didn’t even defend himself. He couldn’t. This is Florida for trans people. This is how we allow ourselves to be treated. I will be taking the evidence of his bruises(only with his consent of course) and with any witnesses I can find. If anyone has any advice I’d appreciate it. At the least I’m getting them suspended.

[shinobicyrus]

So Ron "protect kids from the gays" DeSantis has just signed a law requiring all Florida students - from high-schoolers to children as young as kindergarten - to learn about the "evils of communism" and to receive instruction for how to resist "indoctrination" in higher education.

"A lot of these universities will tell them how great communism is," DeSantis said, with no citation of any this allegedly pro-communist college curricula. "So we are setting the proper foundation."

They also decided to make this a spectacle on the anniversary of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, which was a disastrously botched CIA-organized attempt by armed rebels to overthrow the Cuban government.

"Florida students currently can receive lessons on communism in high-school social studies courses or in a seventh-grade civics and government course. A high-school government class that has been required for graduation also includes 45 minutes of instruction on “Victims of Communism Day” which covers communist regimes through history." (source: USA Today)

Not sure how long it's going to remain, but it seems very....interesting that in the attached USA Today article, there included a viral video of a Cuban refugee (huh...interesting how DeSantis hasn't shipped him to Martha's Vineyard) going through a grocery store in the US and marveling at how full the shelves are; unlike communist Cuba with its shortages of essentials that is totally the fault of the communist government and not at all the product of decades of strict embargoes by the United States. An embargo that recently wouldn't allow life-saving medical equipment from landing on the island during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Obviously this is all culture war bullshit in a state with a collapsing insurance market, literacy that is the 8th worst in the nation, and had one of the largest increases of families with children and veterans experiencing homelessness in the nation last year. I'm sure spending millions of dollars on anti-communist museums is really what the struggling people both want and need in these difficult times.

[ldthegreen]

If anyone, and I do mean anyone, here has information on what's going on with Florida's Education system or any Ron DeSantis laws relating to lgbtq+, medical, or schools I beg you to send me the links

Important Florida News below the cut

As a Florida high schooler, most of us have no idea what's going on except for what specific teachers choose to inform us of. We are all aware of the "Don't say gay" thing and that it applies to kindergarten through third grade. However, I have heard rumors that this has been modified to more grade levels and no one, including administration will give us direct answers on it. My school very nearly got rid of AP Psychology due to the governors thoughts, we were one of the few to thankfully get it back last minute. Another recent development is the new "phone rule" as it is commonly referred to. The entire student body and most teachers find it to be over generalized and a nuisance. Teachers have expressed concern over losing their jobs for possibly allowing us to use our phones. The way it is set up- that we "can only use phones for educational purposes" -prohibits us from even checking the time or briefly scrolling on our phones at the end of a class, even with administrative permission. Many Floridians in the school system are worried about the heavy book censoring along with these other issues. I have heard the term "private education" thrown about in different ways than private schooling. It is bad and we need help, but to make a change we need to know what's happening, and make others know too. So spread the word and please do what you can.

[romyvaldespinorodriguez]

Undergraduate Psychology Degrees at Albizu University

Since 1966, Albizu University in Miami, Florida, has offered undergraduate psychology degrees that prepare students for occupations ranging from social work and HR professions to addiction counselors and child life specialists. Students can complete the program in one to three years, depending on the number of courses they transfer from two- and four-year institutions.

Entrance requirements include a high school diploma or GED equivalent, a 2.0 grade point average, and two letters of recommendation. Students must pass nine electives (24 credit hours) and accumulate at least 100 practice hours in a clinical setting. The university offers specialized degrees in applied behavior analysis (patients on the autism spectrum) and speech-language pathology. Courses comprise lectures, small group study, and research projects.

Various agencies, such as the Association for Behavior Analysis International and the Florida Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology have accredited Albizu's programs. Students in both fields can apply for certification. For more information, visit albizu.edu.

[drowning-medusa]

I'm a long-term substitute that works at a Florida school everyday, and all of my colleagues are currently in the process of removing their entire libraries. I think the state has approved like 300 books. The library is about to dump all of their books at a local book donation place, because not a single one is on the approved list.

We spoke to our head of ELA (English Language Arts) in our school district, and talked about how the holocaust is now a banned subject until 9th grade, and her advice for all of this is "just hold on, it will all roll over," before going to suggest we read up on Ben Carson, another fascist Republican, about how to keep kids interested in reading now that they have nothing to read.

I think people are so used to hearing right-wing fascists like Trump and DeSantis threatening to do very fascist things, that no one has realized those things are actually starting to happen.

If I talk about LGBT/queer subjects with my kids, I go to jail.

If a trans kid comes out to me and I don't report it to their parents, I go to jail.

If I teach my kids African American History, I go to jail.

If I talk about any form of bias with my kids, I go to jail.

If I talk about the 16 million Jews, queer people, and Communists that the Nazis killed, I go to jail.

This shit is terrifying, and no one is talking about it.

I don't Think ive seen anyone on here talking abt some US states forcing teachers to remove all books from their classrooms and force them to only have pre-vetted books available or else face possible JAIL TIME ???

[dogtreatsmart]

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[wondernwriter]

🤦🏾‍♀️

The gay & queer communities exist! You cannot put people BACK in “closets”.

[tobbogan-13]

✨️brainpop videos blocked jn florida✨️

ty @zacharylwackary for pointing out this bullshit ❤️

-Personal Pronouns (Like the fucking part of speech)

-The Pride March at 50

-Pride Month: Interview with Ose Arheghan

-Sex Determination (literally just fucking biology)

-AIDS

-Alan Turing (A mathematician who just happened to be gay)

Im positive there's more that's just all I've seen so far

[chibelial]

That dream I just posted about would seem weird to anybody who actually went to highschool with me. Reason being that, assignments were not work for me whatsoever. Most smaller thing did just get done during class while half listening to the lesson. Anything larger or more difficult I’d usually put off for a long time and just bang it all out last min. But it gets so much better because first off anything I really struggled with I had classmates who would just give me the answers, not to mention I was already an adept cheater in school if I didn’t know the material. But you have to couple all that knowledge with the fact that I would often just forget to do assignments, and several of my teachers would just give me high marks in the grade book despite my unfinished or possible even untouched work. Don’t ask me how this worked most of the time because aside from a few examples with specific teachers, I have no fucking clue. I’d just not do an assignment and I’d see I had gotten like a 92 on it. No idea bro teachers just love, to the point they set aside their academic integrity.

[tomorrowusa]

Don't say thither!

Ron Ronald DeSantis is hell-bent on making Florida students the dumbest kids in the United States. Apparently he wants the entire state to be on the same level as him.

Shakespeare gets caught in Florida's sexual instruction laws

Republicans often rant against "the nanny state". In Florida, the nanny is a fascist in white jackboots.

EDIT: Don't tell Florida Republicans about The Wife of Bath’s Tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 🤯

[mysharona1987]

[ncfcatalyst]

Florida student athletes required to identify gender assigned at birth

The Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) has been fighting controversy in recent weeks after discussing the possibility of requiring student athletes to answer questions about their menstrual history on the state-wide pre-participation physical evaluation form. The form has included questions about menstrual history since it was last updated in 2016, but those questions have remained…

[academiario]

sophomore year of nursing school 💙🩺