Florida under Ron DeSantis is proving to be a place where education, equality, and freedom go to die and a frightening harbinger of what would happen if DeSantis ever makes it to the White House.
DeSantis attacked school superintendents who adhered to Covid-19 protocols during the worst of the pandemic, educators are afraid to say certain words or teach certain subjects, DeSantis personally endorsed school board candidates that support his extremist ideology who are now banning books and health courses, he has appointed an anti-vaxxer as the state’s Surgeon General, and he disenfranchised entire Black voting districts with newly redrawn maps that were too extreme even for state congressional Republicans.
These are some examples of what he's going to run on in the 2024 presidential election. DeSantis is a tyrant.
The Professors Silenced by Florida’s Individual Freedom Act-
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/ron-desantis-florida-critical-race-theory-professors/672507/
Something that's not been reported enough(which I admit pretty much goes for most of what DeSantis has done in Florida) is that it's pretty well known in educator circles that he only started messing with the universities more deeply after it was pointed out that some of the curriculum changes he was making to K-12 education would make it hard for future Florida kids to be accepted to any accredited colleges. So now he's working on a whole ecosystem in which kids get the education he wants them to from K straight through college.
