DeSantis drives Democrats crazy on school libraries

The Left and its media allies are now issuing a continuous stream of falsehoods about Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). Most recently, in a kid-gloved interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, NBC News's host Andrea Mitchell claimed in contradiction of all reasonable evidence that DeSantis had banned the teaching of "slavery and the aftermath of slavery" in Florida schools. This is 180 degrees at odds with the truth. Florida's state history guidelines specifically require slavery and continued racism through the Jim Crow South to be taught in all public schools.

If Florida's history guidelines are online for all to see, why is Mitchell misrepresenting them? The story begins with a Florida law enacted last July requiring schools to vet all the reading materials in their libraries and to publish a list of books to which students have access — the law that led to what has been dubbed "the Great Florida classroom library freakout of 2023." Such a policy would not have been needed if the Left did not display a disturbingly persistent desire and determination to introduce completely inappropriate sexual topics to children at younger and younger ages. That persistence and determination led activists to shout down or persecute anyone who tried to protect childhood innocence.