Florida is standing up for parental rights by protecting students from woke indoctrination.
The Left is fighting back with everything it has.
And woke companies went to war with Florida over this move to protect kids.
Florida sued over a law that keeps sexually explicit books out of the classroom
The Left has turned the classroom into one of the biggest battlegrounds in the culture wars.
Parents discovered during the pandemic the shocking curriculum and books being used in government schools.
Sexually explicit books pushing the LGBT agenda were being used in elementary schools.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis saw a problem and stepped up to stop it.
He signed HB 1069 into law last year which set a process for parents and members of the community to object to inappropriate materials in the classroom.
Parents found books that were so sexually explicit that were being used for young elementary school students that local news networks could not show their content on air.
These books were left-wing indoctrination that had no educational value for students.
But the Left was not giving up its toehold into the classroom without a fight.
Democrats and their media allies created a hoax that Florida was banning books including dictionaries from schools.
Now, a group of the largest public publishers in the country filed a lawsuit against Florida alleging the state violated the First Amendment with HB 1069.
Book publishers claim there is a constitutional right to show kindergarteners explicit material
Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks filed the lawsuit against HB 1069 in federal court in Orlando.
Authors Julia Alvarez, John Green, Laurie Halse Anderson, Jodi Picoult, and Angie Thomas were listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuits.
Parents from Orange County and Volusia County joined the lawsuit alleging their kids were not allowed to check out books that used to be in the school library.
They argued that the “sexual conduct” standard in the law was too vague.
“As publishers dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and the right to read, the rise in book bans across the country continues to demand our collective action,” Penguin Random House said in a statement. “Fighting unconstitutional legislation in Florida and across the country is an urgent priority.”
Florida Department of Education spokeswoman Sydney Booker told the Tampa Bay Times the publishers’ lawsuit was a “stunt.”
“There are no books banned in Florida,” Booker wrote. “Sexually explicit material and instruction are not suitable for schools.”
The publishers are looking to undermine parental rights by having teachers evaluate whether books are appropriate for the classroom.
HB 1069 is also facing a lawsuit filed by left-wing activist groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union.
DeSantis has pushed back on the hoax that keeping sexually explicit material out of the classroom constitutes a book ban.
“Over the past year, parents have used their rights to object to pornographic and sexually explicit material they found in school libraries,” DeSantis said. “We also know that some people have abused this process in an effort to score cheap political points.”
The Left is fighting tooth and nail to keep wildly inappropriate books in the classroom.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
