“As president, I'm going to make sure woke ideology ends up in the dustbin of history,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said. | Charlie Neibergall/AP PhotoRon DeSantis paved his political brand — and wound his way into conservative hearts — through Florida’s classrooms.The presidential hopeful isn’t the first Republican governor to embrace “parental rights” or limit how race and gender are discussed in schools.
“In Florida, we say we’re the state where woke goes to die,” he later added. “As president, I’m going to make sure woke ideology ends up in the dustbin of history.” Opponents of the measure have dubbed it the “Don’t Say Gay” law because it bars educators from teaching lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity. This legislative session, GOP lawmakers bolstered the law by including restrictions on using a student’s pronouns if they “do not correspond” with their sex assigned at birth. Schools are also now required to pull books that are challenged within five days of someone flagging it.
“For too long, these school boards have not reflected the values of the communities that they were supposedly elected to serve,”Restricting lessons on race “We are not going to tell some kindergartener that they’re an oppressor based on their race and what may have happened 100 or 200 years ago,”“And we’re not going to tell other kids that they’re oppressed based on their race.”
“As president, I’m going to make sure woke ideology ends up in the dustbin of history,' DeSantis said on Fox News this week when discussing what role the president should play in education-related culture war issues.