#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.

[romyvaldespinorodriguez]

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[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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Meet ‘Samba’: The vape-sniffing K9 dog in Florida schools used to crack down on vaping. Read more: www.dogtreatsmart.com

[wondernwriter]

🤦🏾‍♀️

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

[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.

[reasonsforhope]

"Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statues of Confederate soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old plantations turned into modern subdivisions that bear the same name. But many students aren’t learning that kind of Black history in Florida classrooms.

In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won’t provide. They talk about South Florida’s Caribbean roots, the state’s dark history of lynchings, how segregation still shapes the landscape and how grassroots activists mobilized the Civil Rights Movement to upend generations of oppression.

“You need to know how it happened before so you can decide how you want it to happen again,” she told her students as they sat as their desks, the morning light illuminating historic photographs on the walls.

Florida students are giving up their Saturday mornings to learn about African American history at the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum in Delray Beach and in similar programs at community centers across the state. Many are supported by Black churches, which for generations have helped forge the cultural and political identity of their parishioners.

Since Faith in Florida developed its own Black history toolkit last year, more than 400 congregations have pledged to teach the lessons, the advocacy group says.

Florida has required public schools to teach African American history for the past 30 years, but many families no longer trust the state’s education system to adequately address the subject.

By the state’s own metrics, just a dozen Florida school districts have demonstrated excellence at teaching Black history, by providing evidence that they are incorporating the content into lessons throughout the school year and getting buy-in from the school board and community partners.

School district officials across Florida told The Associated Press that they are still following the state mandate to teach about the experience of enslavement, abolition and the “vital contributions of African Americans to build and strengthen American society.”

But a common complaint from students and parents is that the instruction seems limited to heroic figures such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and rarely extends beyond each February’s Black History Month.

When Sulaya Williams’ eldest child started school, she couldn’t find the comprehensive instruction she wanted for him in their area. So in 2016, she launched her own organization to teach Black history in community settings.

“We wanted to make sure that our children knew our stories, to be able to pass down to their children,” Williams said.

Williams now has a contract to teach Saturday school at a public library in Fort Lauderdale, and her 12-year-old daughter Addah Gordon invites her classmates to join her.

“It feels like I’m really learning my culture. Like I’m learning what my ancestors did,” Addah said. “And most people don’t know what they did.”"

-via AP News, December 23, 2024

[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. 🤯

[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

[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 💙🩺

[liyazaki]

via the Arkansas Advocate

it’s official: in Arkansas, library staff may now be charged with a Class D felony for providing books to their communities that are deemed “obscene”.

in Florida, school librarians and teachers can be criminally charged for checking out books to kids that dare to touch on LGBTQ topics & gender identity, thanks to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

book censorship in the US is at such an all-time high, book sanctuaries are popping up all over the country.

library staff aren’t physically safe, either. just over the past couple months, threats against libraries and their staff resulted in the temporary closure of “five public library systems due to bomb and shooting threats," ALA. active shooter trainings have become the new norm for me.

the censorship myself and my colleagues have been watching unfold over the last several years has felt like watching a slow-motion car crash.

but this bill? this feels like a death knell for my profession.

via Teen Vogue

when I was a confused queer kid growing up in an ultra-religious household, the library was my refuge. when I asked hard questions, librarians listened and gave me the tools I needed to answer them. in many ways, libraries saved my life. it's why I became a librarian.

I can't believe I'm living in times where future generations of kids may not have access to the same refuge I did, but it's happening.

if you live in the US and you care about protecting open, equitable access to information, please check out the American Library Association for anti-censorship resources in your state, info on contacting your representatives, etc.

you can also report censorship you see in your community and ALA will investigate (1-800-545-2433, ext. 4266; oif@ala.org).

I know this isn't my usual content, but libraries are standing on the edge of a horrifying precipice- one we can't escape on our own.

libraries are free society's canary in the coal mine, and all the alarms are singing. when libraries fall, nations usually aren't far behind.

this matters- and we need help.