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U.S. education secretary promises to monitor if new Florida law violates civil rights
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | March 28, 2022 | Bryan Lowry, McClatchy DC

Posted on 03/29/2022 7:29:04 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Monday that his department will monitor Florida’s implementation of a controversial new education law that restricts classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity to determine whether it violates federal civil rights law.

Mr. Cardona’s statement hints at potential legal ramifications for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision Monday to sign the legislation, which critics have called the “don’t say gay” bill, into law. But it does not specify what actions the Biden administration could take in response.

“By signing this bill, Governor DeSantis has chosen to target some of Florida’s most vulnerable students and families, all while under the guise of ‘parents’ rights.’ Make no mistake: this is a part of a disturbing and dangerous trend across the country of legislation targeting LGBTQI+ students, educators, and individuals,” Mr. Cardona said in a statement Monday after Mr. DeSantis signed the bill into law.

“This comes at a time when we know lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning students are three to four times more likely than non-LGBTQI+ students to report experiencing persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and even self harm — not because of who they are but because of the hostility directed at them.”

The law signed by Mr. DeSantis prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade or “in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards,” a phrase that could limit instruction for older students as well.

Mr. Cardona’s statement comes after criticism of the Florida legislation from President Joe Biden last month on the grounds that it targets LGBTQ statements. It also follows a series of increasingly bitter policy disputes between Mr. Biden and Mr. DeSantis over an array of issues . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Florida; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: biden; children; civilrights; dontsaygay; education; fl; florida; genderdysphoria; grooming; homosexualagenda; indiana; leftists; lgbt; miguelcardona; parents; parentsrights; petebuttigieg; rondesantis; schools; sexed; teachers; transgender
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To: Jim W N
You cannot be serious.
Its NOT a stupid bill. It's a great bill.
And it does not mention ANY sexual orientation.
Why don't you just actually read it before mouthing off far left nonsense?
41 posted on 03/29/2022 8:51:48 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Education is the responsibility of state and local governments, not the Feds!!! Keep the US government away from our kids!!!


42 posted on 03/29/2022 9:02:22 AM PDT by elpadre (And here in NCini)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If democrats can’t kill kids before they are born they want them groomed for their pedo lgbtqwtf people. Sick perverts.


43 posted on 03/29/2022 9:10:06 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Monitor all the universities that commit thousands of violations every year against non-trans people in the hopes of grooming them into misfits.


44 posted on 03/29/2022 9:19:41 AM PDT by Jumper ( )
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To: Labyrinthos
...sex education back in the 1070’s began in 9th or 10th grade and was called “Health.”

Yep. It was in the 70's in my conservative state of Texas in the 10th grade, and the sex part was only covered for a couple of weeks in that course. That is plenty enough time to teach and learn the very simple concepts of how life-altering illegitimate sex is. We learned how debilitating many STD's were, what the horrific treatments were for advanced disease. We were horrified. We learned the full biology of pregancy, puberty and the developments which came with it, and other sexual maturity issues. Not once was "safe sex" recommended, only abstinence was implied as the assumed policy. And nothing about 'gay' sex was ever broached, that I remember.

Coaches mainly taught the course so they focused mostly on health, hygiene, the dangers of drug use, maturity issues and good health habits.

45 posted on 03/29/2022 9:24:12 AM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: JulieRNR21; Travis McGee; AAABEST; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; summer; ...
The fact that the perversion-promoters in Washington DC chose to threaten DeSantis and the Florida state government suprises me not one iota; I'm surprised it took them until today to react. The last thing these Marxists want to allow is a powerful example that their mechanations to destroy the county can and will be successfully counteracted.

They can all burn in hell. The sooner, the better.

Florida Freeper

I'm compiling a list of FReepers interested in Florida-related topics.
If you want to be added, please FReepMail me.

46 posted on 03/29/2022 9:31:37 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Joe Brower

It would seem to me that the civil rights most threatened in this imbroglio are the rights of the parents and children. They are entitled to their rights to an education untainted by the sexual fantasies/proclivities of the public employee who is employed as an educator.

Neither the school system, school, teacher, nor even Disney employees, have standing to claim their civil rights (which are individual rights) are being or have been violated. Parents, and parents on behalf of their children, on the other hand, should bring such suits, with fury, should some classroom advocate(s) step even one toe over the line.


47 posted on 03/29/2022 9:48:31 AM PDT by steve in DC
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To: Joe Brower

I have reached the point that I think that the pervs are largely in charge of media and government. I am amazed when anyone finds the courage to go against them.


48 posted on 03/29/2022 9:49:25 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: Jim W N

Read the bull or read an honest description of it.


49 posted on 03/29/2022 9:49:41 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
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To: clintonh8r

..or read the “bill”


50 posted on 03/29/2022 9:51:00 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
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To: oblomov
You can’t describe homosexual acts in detail to children in kindergarten up to 3rd grade in public schools. This is a civil rights violation, according to progs.

Or heterosexual acts. Or tranny stuff.

51 posted on 03/29/2022 10:05:26 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: fwdude

Your description of the 1970’s health education is pretty accurate except in my upstate NY school, they did acknowledge the existence of homosexuals, transvestites, and transexuals, without politicizing the conversation or advocating for the lifestyle. In my school, the health teachers were mostly coaches and a drivers education teacher.

The only controversy that I can recall was when a nurse from planned baby killing spoke to the class about birth control once a year. Students were not allowed to attend the class unless a parent signed a permission slip. Most of us used this as an excuse to skip the class.


52 posted on 03/29/2022 10:11:31 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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DeSantis will be interviewed about this on Buck and Clay at 2:00 for those who want to understand what the bill is really about.


53 posted on 03/29/2022 10:49:59 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

TEXAS:

PLEASE SECEDE from the Union so other states can join in.


54 posted on 03/29/2022 11:08:39 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Labyrinthos

My memory is a little foggy on the details, so I can’t confirm whether Planned Barrenhood paid a visit. I do know that the guys were split into a separate class from the girls for the sexual portion of the health class, for obvious physiological differences. They may have heard from the abortion “nurse,” but being the late 70’s, I doubt it.


55 posted on 03/29/2022 12:44:44 PM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Monitors” = Prosecutes


56 posted on 03/29/2022 12:45:32 PM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: Little Ray

Give the fags an inch, and they’ll take a mile.


57 posted on 03/29/2022 12:51:25 PM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Hey Smoking Joe, I was asking the question what this bill was about.

Take a Valium and take a rest.


58 posted on 03/29/2022 3:20:45 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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