Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Bans Woke Indoctrination in Teacher Training Programs

Emily Mangiaracina : May 6, 2024
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"This bill prohibits the indoctrination in teacher preparation. There's not gonna be DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), there's not gonna be any of the bogus history, it's just gonna be standard teacher preparation without having an ideological agenda." -Governor Ron DeSantis

(Jacksonville, FL) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Thursday banning woke indoctrination during teacher training. (Screengrab image: via X)

HB 1291 specifically prohibits the "distort[ion] of significant historical events" and the teaching of "identity politics" in teacher preparation courses. It also bans courses "based on theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the US and were created to maintain social, political and economic inequities."

DeSantis explained during a press conference that while Florida has already enacted a law banning critical race theory, for example, in public school classrooms, teachers continue to be trained to teach these ideas in their own college education.

"This bill prohibits the indoctrination in teacher preparation," DeSantis said. "There's not gonna be DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), there's not gonna be any of the bogus history, it's just gonna be standard teacher preparation without having an ideological agenda."

"Parents want to send their kids to school knowing they get an education," he continued. "I don't think they're interested in an indoctrination."

"To say you're going to take one viewpoint, one perceptive, and try to impose that as the standard for curriculum, that doesn't work in Florida, and we don't do it," he added... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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