DeSantis' furious response to Kamala Harris' lies about Florida curriculum



Ron DeSantis has frequently been criticized by the left for how he chooses to run education in his state, and Kamala Harris’ latest attack is no different.

On July 24, Harris tweeted: “In the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery. They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.”

Clay Travis spoke to DeSantis about her tweet and asked for his reaction.

“Well, obviously, she’s lying,” DeSantis says without skipping a beat.

“You know that there is going to be corporate press that are going to run with that and try to create a narrative. Now, there’s actually been some that have pushed back because it’s so egregious,” he continues.

DeSantis claims that the history the left wants him to teach is not real history. This is why he decided a couple of years ago to get critical race theory out of Florida school’s curricula.

The Florida governor and presidential hopeful explains that his bill essentially dictates that “you must teach accurate history, you must teach about racial discrimination, you must teach about all aspects of African-American history because we believe in true history.”

He claims that the current curriculum is “very thorough and it is every little aspect of not just slavery but the black experience in America from colonial times, the beginning.”

“The reality is, they’re lying again. They’re creating a narrative,” he adds.


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Whoopi Goldberg tore into Governor Ron DeSantis on “The View” for “trying to repeat [slavery]” after Florida’s Board of Education approved curriculum standards for African-American history last week.

“I feel like [the Board] didn’t talk to any African-Americans” when they developed these standards, she says.

“We’re telling you this history; it’s our American history because you need to know so we don’t repeat it. And here you come, DeSantis, trying to repeat it,” she spits.

“First off, Whoopi, you gotta lay off the pipe,” Rubin says, adding, “I’ve heard from multiple sources you show up to that show stoned every day.”

Rubin is certain that DeSantis does not intend to reinstitute slavery or deny that it happened.

“[She] flat out lied when she said that they should've talked to some black scholars about this,” he says.

Dr. William B. Allen as well as Dr. Frances Presley Rice, both of whom are African-American, were on the board that approved the curriculum.

Maybe Whoopi missed that little detail. Perhaps she needs to get her facts straight before her next tirade.


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Florida teacher fired for instructing students to write their own obituaries before active shooter drill, says he's 'done nothing wrong'



A Florida teacher was fired hours after instructing students to write their own obituaries ahead of an active shooter drill on campus. The teacher said he has done nothing wrong and doesn't regret the lesson plan.

Psychology teacher Jeffrey Keene gave the controversial assignment to 11th and 12th-graders on Tuesday at the Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando. Keene asked students in his first-period class to write their own obituaries.

Keene said he told his students that the lesson "isn't a way to upset you or anything like that."

By the second-period class, students informed the teacher that school officials interviewed them about the assignment. A school supervisor came to the class to observe the lesson. Before the second-period class, Keene said he gave students a disclaimer after one pupil became upset in the first class.

Before the end of the seventh period, Keene had been fired.

A spokesperson for Orange County School District said in statement, "Dr. Phillips High School families were informed that a teacher gave an inappropriate assignment about school violence. Administration immediately investigated and the probationary employee has been terminated."

Keene, who had just been hired at the school in January, was not a member of the union, so he reportedly has no recourse to reverse the district's decision.

The teacher of 15 years is appealing his termination.

Keene, 63, did not regret his lesson plan.

"It wasn't to scare them or make them feel like they were going to die, but just to help them understand what’s important in their lives and how they want to move forward with their lives and how they want to pursue things in their journey," Keene said.

He said of his lesson plan, "If they died 24 hours from now, what would they do differently than they did yesterday? And that’s to get them to get rid of all the fluff and show them what’s important in the world."

“It wasn’t to say, ‘You’re going to die, and let’s stress you out.'”

Keene asked, "If you can't talk real to them, then what's happening in this environment?"

"I don't think I did anything incorrectly," Keene told WOFL. "I know hindsight is 20/20, but I honestly didn't think a 16-, 17-, 18-year-old would be offended or upset by talking about something we're already talking about."

The teacher defiantly declared, "In my mind, I've done nothing wrong."

Keene recalled being fired, "When they said you have the option to resign without violating your contract, I said, ‘I didn’t do anything wrong.’ I said, ‘If I did, tell me what it is.’ They said, ‘We can’t do that.’ I said, 'In that case, since I don’t know what I did wrong, you can go ahead and terminate me without cause.'"

Keene hopes to find another teaching job and vowed not to change the way he teaches students.

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Mother says 'strong-minded and fearless' daughter, 7, suspended 36 times from school for not wearing a mask may have to repeat second grade



A Florida girl may have to repeat second grade after she was suspended 36 times for not complying with the school district's mask mandate.

Bailey Lashells describes her 7-year-old daughter as a typical child who enjoys drawing, arts and crafts, and making jewelry. The mother also says her daughter's priorities have changed since the pandemic.

Fiona Lashells — a student in Palm Beach County — first refused to wear a face mask at school on Aug. 31, and was forced to eat a silent lunch alone in an office hallway. The second-grader has since been suspended 36 times.

"Fiona is a strong-minded and fearless young girl who was ready to conquer the world at seven," the mother told the Tampa Free Press.

"Unfortunately, the blows just seem to not stop as she was recently told after completing every assignment her teacher will provide that she is not only failing second grade but that there is no way she could catch up, per her teacher," Bailey Lashells said.

Fiona's fight against mask mandates caught the attention of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The Republican governor signed an executive order in July banning mask mandates in Florida schools, giving the parents the choice to mask or unmask their children. The Palm Beach County school district was one of several school districts in Florida to defy the mask mandate ban.

The School District of Palm Beach County's universal mask mandate for students will finally offer parents an opt-out option on Monday after a judge declared that the DeSantis administration was within its authority to impose a ban on mask mandates.

DeSantis appeared on "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday with Fiona.

"I'm not wearing a mask because you touch it, and you have germs on your hands, and then you put it on your face and then you breathe in all the germs," Fiona said.

"Fox & Friends" host Steve Doocy asked Fiona how she felt about the possibility of having to repeat the second grade.

"Well, I don't feel good about that, and I don't want to take the grade over again because I've also been doing most of the work at home," the young girl said.

DeSantis noted, "All 67 counties have had a huge decline in COVID cases among school-age children. Most of them did not have forced masking. So this is not something that has been proven to be effective. And obviously, as we see with Fiona, it has caused harm to some of our students."

DeSantis pointed to Glenn Youngkin's victory in the Virginia gubernatorial election as a sign that "people are rebelling against what the Democrat Party stands for nowadays," including "never-ending mandates and restrictions because of COVID."

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