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The Candidacy of Ron DeSantis

More fake narratives. Isolated incidents that you try to use to make it look bigger and scarier.

You tried to trash the Florida education system, yet you didn’t know that it’s thriving. You tried to post about a poem that was banned and it didn’t get banned. Now you’re trying to push a movie narrative. Keep trying because there is nothing there.
I just don’t think I’m making this all up out of thin air. BTW, I am not, as you claim “you try to use to make look bigger and scarier”. That suggests that I have set out to make something be something that it isn’t. I am talking to others, in teaching, past and present, about these issues. I don’t believe we are all inhabiting an alternate reality, and all of this a figment of our too fertile imaginations. I am not, as you seem to imply here, sitting at the monitor, saying, “let’s see how I can twist education in Florida into exactly what I want it to be, even though I will secretly know that all I’m doing is slinging the ****”. There is something there.

And Ron DeSantis has proven himself to be a staunch opponent of the advancement of human knowledge. That’s what he is. That’s what he represents. It goes far beyond education in Florida.





 
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Ron DeSantis has proven himself to be a staunch opponent of the advancement of human knowledge.
False. Statistically speaking, Ron DeSantis presides over the state with the highest rated education system in the nation. You rely entirely on anecdotes and opinion pieces to support a false narrative you want to be true.

I have watched you slander Florida for having the worst education system.

Then when presented with evidence that Florida has the overall #1 rated education system, I see you to pivot to claiming that Florida has the worst system of higher education. Then you are presented with rankings showing Florida having the overall #1 rated system of higher education.

Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. ...and you are completely impervious to any information from neutral sources that runs counter to the false narrative you want to be true. If you know some teachers in Florida who are having a rough go or are deeply concerned then I'm sorry to hear that but it doesn't change the fact that statistically Florida, the state governed by Ron DeSantis, has the #1 rated education system in the nation. I'm sure you can find an opinion piece that use anecdotes to tell you what you want to hear, but that too doesn't change the fact that statistically Florida, the state governed by Ron DeSantis, has the #1 rated education system in the nation. I can tell that you really, really don't want that fact to be reality but it is real. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system in the nation.

I honestly wonder if you are even capable of absorbing this fact that has been presented to you over and over and over as you continue to claim the opposite.
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Here is a story, just last year, from the Midwest that shows teachers are quitting because of left wing policies.


Why don’t you bring up this?
The difference in scale between 50 people in a single school district and 114 people spread out over 6 states should be clear.

What’s the “don’t say gay law”? Show me a law that say this?
I don't believe you're this naive. Jim Crow survived on the ruling of Plessey vs. Ferguson's "separate but equal" for decades, enforcing the separation while ignoring the equality. A law is not required to have explicitly discriminatory language in order to have discriminatory intent and effect.

Red just offered an example in the objection to Disney's Strange World. To the degree that there was a difference at all, Aladdin and The Lion King had more explicit scenes. However, they were of heterosexual couples, and no one would object to them being shown in school. The only reason for the objection to Strange World is that it depicts homosexual attraction (without any sort of contact, much less sexual contact, IIRC). This is not a bug, it's a feature of the law and exactly what it was carefully designed to allow.

Again show me where educational books are being banned? Show me where black history is being removed. It’s all fear porn. You literally have no idea what’s going on here. None.
There is a fair amount of fear porn coming from the left and right. However, educational books don't get banned, they are just not ordered, or the publishers are presented with a list of changes to make before they can be purchased. How black history is presented is more important than whether it is presented.

Yes some person complained about a Disney movie that was shown. I bet there would people who complain if there was a teacher who showed a Christ movie in school…
Do you think that particular movie belongs in a high-school classroom? I've not seen it, but I read it described as "torture porn".

Or what about just Disney movies in general, not in Florida?
No one objected to the choice of movie in question.

You tried to trash the Florida education system, yet you didn’t know that it’s thriving.
It has been thriving. Why fix something that was not broken?

Yes the teachers union cite republicans and parents politics. Let see what they are up to…

Wow… 18% to politics and ONLY 9% to “representational activities”. Out of a $374 million budget. Focused more on politics than the teachers. I bet they are pretty neutral on political donations…
I would expect otherwise. Democrats typically are much more supportive of raising teacher pay, unionization, and getting kids educational support. The teachers' unions spend money on politicians who support the unions and the teachers. I'd be shocked if they spent it equally.

It’s the definition of a left wing teacher. You asked it. It’s a teacher which has left leaning political views. It’s an easy question to answer. What’s a right wing teacher? I bet you would love to sit in a classroom that has MAGA flags on the wall, red hat sitting on the desk and a large photo of Christ on the door. Then not ask what is a right wing teacher.
What's the left-wing teacher equivalent to MAGA flags, the red hat, and the photo of Christ? Which teacher had them?

I don’t care about the rules. I’m the victim here.
What rules were broken by showing Strange World?
 
Bucknutz must sing in the choir or else! No differences of opinion are allowed!
TheThriller has every right to choose what he reads or does not. It's a very miserable person that feels pressure from being ignored.

..., I found this 5 minute video to succinctly describe their mindset.
Melanie Phillips is a climate change denialist, an antivaxxer, an Islamophobe, and anti-gay. She deserves as much respect as Matt Walsh or Ken Ham. I'm not surprised she's one of your go-to sources.
 
Wow… 18% to politics and ONLY 9% to “representational activities”. Out of a $374 million budget. Focused more on politics than the teachers. I bet they are pretty neutral on political donations…
I would have to do more research than I care to at this point to determine exactly what they are calling "representational activities," but when I was a shop steward, that would have only included the times when we were directly in meetings with management about specific members, not about negotiating the contract, organizing, etc. Literally only defending members.
 
TheThriller has every right to choose what he reads or does not. It's a very miserable person that feels pressure from being ignored.
I don't think anyone feels pressure from being ignored by The Thriller. The comment was highlighting the obviousness in The Thriller's own wording that he does not seek any information on anything. All he wants is affirmation. If words in front of him are not exactly what he already believes then he seeks to banish it from his universe.
 

I actually agree with that. You can be a fatass and play baseball and be in the hall of Fame.

Not so much in basketball. Basketball players are freaks for the most part.
I was eating at Ruth's Chris steakhouse and some jazz players came in. They were different than everyone else in the restaurant. They stood out due to their size.
If a bunch of Yankees players came into the restaurant I wouldn't even notice.
 
I actually agree with that. You can be a fatass and play baseball and be in the hall of Fame.

Not so much in basketball. Basketball players are freaks for the most part.
I was eating at Ruth's Chris steakhouse and some jazz players came in. They were different than everyone else in the restaurant. They stood out due to their size.
If a bunch of Yankees players came into the restaurant I wouldn't even notice.
Yeah, I remember meeting that giant, Chris Paul.
 
The NFL has several different body types... but they are pretty closely tied with specific positions.
 
Next Desantis will tell us how "certain" NBA players have extra muscles that make them better for working in the fiel....uh throwing a basketball around.
 
I actually agree with that. You can be a fatass and play baseball and be in the hall of Fame.

Not so much in basketball. Basketball players are freaks for the most part.
I was eating at Ruth's Chris steakhouse and some jazz players came in. They were different than everyone else in the restaurant. They stood out due to their size.
If a bunch of Yankees players came into the restaurant I wouldn't even notice.
I dunno. I think the era of fatasses smoking in the dugout has ended. I remember the big guy from Boston, Big Poppy not exactly being malone. He was more THT’s frame after eating a dozen donuts. But I don’t think baseball players are the sloppy athletes they were years ago. The game is too popular internationally and there’s too much money to be made to remain out of shape. At least, I think. I’m not a huge MLB guy.

But it’s hard not to see the racial undertones he was trying for. It was a knock a wink to the “very fine people” he’s hoping to steal from Trump. @LogGrad98 nailed it
 
Nowadays, or back in the 1930s when the NBA did not even exist?

There have been a lot of fat baseball players. Pitchers can be fat. First baseman as well. Cecil fielder, big papi are a few. There was a yankees pitcher too recently. I dont watch baseball at all but those are a few that come to mind.

Anywho, i just dont think that this is a huge deal. Its like the tan suit with obama or something in my opinion.
 
There have been a lot of fat baseball players. Pitchers can be fat. First baseman as well. Cecil fielder, big papi are a few. There was a yankees pitcher too recently. I dont watch baseball at all but those are a few that come to mind.

Anywho, i just dont think that this is a huge deal. Its like the tan suit with obama or something in my opinion.
*gasp* you brought up suitgate! How dare you

It was almost as big of a scandal as when Obama ordered the wrong type of mustard.

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Do you know where Hernando county is? Because if you knew, you wouldn’t have posted this. This is a few left wing teachers teaching in a very red district. You’re trying to continuously create and feed everyone a narrative which is not true. You can’t even point to any banning of educational books or removal of black history in public schools. It’s just false.
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There will be 50 people leave and there will be thousands of more people moving in. Because it’s a fast growing RURAL county. It’s about 1 hr from Tampa, with no traffic. Farm land everywhere. We have about 800 customers up in this area now because of the constant growth. It will probably grow 5% in the last 2 years. It’s a very red county.

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Here is a story, just last year, from the Midwest that shows teachers are quitting because of left wing policies.


Why don’t you bring up this? Maybe it’s where people live and they don’t like the state/local politics. It’s like hearing the right wing people in California bitch all the time about their state government.

1) That’s a heck of a reliable source.
2) That’s an even better survey…lmao
 
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