It’s about much more than bathrooms. But yes, it was also in part about bathrooms. The Florida law heard ‘round the world commonly and falsely characterized as “don’t say gay”, was back in focus yesterday – this time with the Florida Board of Education. While Florida’s law laid out the parameters for what is and isn’t legal within our schools, it’s the Florida Board of Education which needed to adopt rules for how the law would be enforced within our schools. The lion’s share of the news media’s coverage of yesterday’s meeting centers around what they feel is the most sensational, that being parental notification if schools allow for students to use bathrooms and locker rooms opposite of their God-given, or biological gender. There was so much more to the meeting and thus the story. Notably, as was illustrated time and again during the course of yesterday’s marathon meeting, there are numerous examples of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law being violated across the state right now. A common example presented... When books deemed inappropriate have been removed from school libraries, activist teachers have brought them directly into their classrooms... And if activist teachers are willing to curate books deemed inappropriate under Florida law, directly distributing them to children in the classroom.
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