Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses ‘woke gender ideology’ ahead of ‘Don’t say gay’ law taking effect

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Board of Education has scheduled a gathering this month to craft a rule associated to finishing up the controversial new “Parental Rights in Education” law, recognized to critics because the “don’t say gay” invoice. 

The law (HB 1557), which can take effect July 1, will prohibit instruction about sexual orientation and gender id in kindergarten by way of third grade. 

It additionally will bar such instruction in older grades if the teachings are “not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate” in accordance with state educational requirements. 

The measure is also designed to make sure that colleges can not preserve information from dad and mom associated to “critical decisions” about college students’ well-being. 

Parents are allowed below the law to sue college districts for violations. But the measure additionally gives an alternate course of for resolving disputes by way of hearings earlier than particular magistrates. 

The state board is scheduled June 29 to debate a rule associated to particular magistrates. 

“The purpose of this rule development is to craft a rule describing the process for a parent to request the appointment of a special magistrate when a parent’s concern for his child’s welfare under the provisions of (the law) have not been satisfactorily resolved at the local level by the school principal or by the school district,” a discover of the assembly mentioned. 

Gov. Ron DeSantis touted such training legal guidelines throughout a press occasion Wednesday in Madeira Beach, saying that they provide dad and mom “recourse” when colleges don’t comply with state requirements. 

“Elementary school kids should not have woke gender ideology injected into the curriculum. That is inappropriate, that’s not what we want in our school system,” DeSantis mentioned.