'Florida considers books to be more dangerous to students than assault rifles. This is truly a dystopian state,' says esqueer_as teachers in one Florida county scramble to cover or remove books from classrooms or face felony charges under a new GOP law.
Manatee High School history teacher Don Falls, who is involved in a lawsuit against DeSantis' Stop WOKE Act banning the teaching of critical race theory—a graduate-level discipline not taught in K-12 schools—;𠇁. Florida teachers are being told to remove all books from their classroom libraries OR FACE FELONY PROSECUTION\n\nThe new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to"groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.
"Readers Gonna Read," read one student-drawn sign taped to swaths of blue construction paper covering one middle school classroom's library."Free the Books," demanded another."There is no friend as loyal as a book," asserted a third sign hanging below a notice designating the room's"safe zone" in case of school shooter attack.on Facebook.
;“Photo of a classroom library at Bayshore High School in Manatee County, Florida after they banned all classroom libraries. Florida considers books to be more dangerous to students than assault rifles. This is truly a dystopian state.;”that"it's a scary thing to have elementary teachers have to worry about being charged with a third-degree felony because of trying to help students develop a love of reading.
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