Florida’s education system exists to create opportunity for our children. Critical Race Theory teaches kids to hate our country and to hate each other. It is state-sanctioned racism and has no place in Florida schools. pic.twitter.com/ludv7ARgNP
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) June 10, 2021
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis remains supportive of the state Board of Education’s decision. On Thursday, DeSantis described critical race theory as “state-sanctioned racism” that does not belong in Florida schools.
The Republican governor also maintained that the Florida education system should teach young Floridians how to think for themselves, as opposed to what they should think.
Nationwide pushback against critical race theory
Florida is far from the only state to take action against critical race theory. This type of Marxist indoctrination is not something that Republicans view as appropriate for classrooms; conservatives also reject the notion that skin color deems someone either inherently oppressive or oppressed.
Democrats, of course, are all for critical race theory in classrooms. In fact, the left now claims that pushback against critical race theory is an attack on free speech itself. Opponents of critical race theory maintain that classrooms are not the place for teachers to force political agendas onto young, impressionable minds.
