Following a CNN report on the DeSantis administration mandating that Florida state faculties’ curriculums and libraries should observe content material tips by the Florida Department of Education, anchor Don Lemon assumed the worst, accusing Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., of re-instituting “book banning” from “the 1950s.”
The “CNN This Morning” host added that the Florida Department of Education (DOE) is trying to preserve youngsters “ignorant” with this determination. He scoffed at the concept that this was about dad and mom having a “voice” in their youngsters’s training, calling it a “red herring” to throw critics off.
He added that children have regular entry to uncomfortable books, equivalent to Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”
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“CNN This Morning” anchors Poppy Harlow and Don Lemon categorical frustration of the Florida Department of Education’s newest guidelines concerning college curricula.
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Lemon’s rant adopted a report on a brand new Florida legislation – supported by the governor’s administration – requiring curricula and studying materials to be vetted for state classrooms in accordance with requirements set by the state DOE. These requirements, as the report famous, require lesson supplies to be “free of pornography,” “suited to student needs and their ability to comprehend the material,” and “appropriate” for his or her grade stage and age group.”
However, as CNN claimed, many Florida teachers are alarmed and worried because failure to stick to pre-approved or vetted classroom material “might consequence in a third-degree felony.”
The segment featured scenes of parents at Florida school board meetings claiming that the Florida DOE was banning books, though it also gave voice to parents saying this scrutiny of material was “dad and mom’ rights at work.”
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis waves as he arrives for a news convention at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, on Key Biscayne, Fla.
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However, Lemon agreed with the former group of oldsters. Responding to the report, the incredulous anchor addressed co-host Poppy Harlow, saying, “Poppy, this is bizarre. What are we doing here? I mean, I feel like we’re going back – I feel like I’m watching a bad version of ‘Pleasantville.’”
He added, “I don’t get what’s taking place. It feels like the 1950s all over once more with like book banning.”
Lemon’s rant didn’t finish there. He then declared, “This is cancel culture from people who are – I guess they just want our kids to be ignorant and to control the teachers. This is outrageous. I really don’t even know how to explain what’s going on here. It’s ridiculous.”
Parents are divided over the Florida Department of Education’s tips for college curricula.
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Harlow acknowledged her perception that “parents need a voice in this,” however as she was talking a zealous Lemon reduce her off, saying, “But this isn’t about a voice in education, Poppy, I think that’s a red herring. Listen I understand what you’re saying. I think that’s a red herring because there are a lot of uncomfortable topics that are in books, Nazism, ‘Mein Kampf…’”
Harlow interjected, “You didn’t let me finish,” and defined that she was going to make the similar level Lemon had interrupted her to make.