We scan so much negative news these days. It is exhausting. It seems to be a number of disparate negative trends. But take a step back. This is ALL about education, because that is the way to change a society and ultimately a government.
Let me start with something that is so incredulous that it might make a reader smile. The producer of zombie movies has to tweet that no, vaccines will not turn you into zombies because zombies are not real. Really?
And real elected officials spout the fact that vax will turn you into magnets. Do people really believe that?
Well, 40 years ago I was working and writing to warn people that “Back to Basics” was a deadly GOP plot. Taking the post Sputnik-era logic out of the nation’s school curricula was a highway to hell. And here we are.
We are at war. And we don’t even know the battlefield. It is at an elementary school near you.
Let’s keep it simple. Florida, Florida, Florida. If you are rich (aka GOP) you can get state money to pull your child out of a public school (AKA COVID culture dish) and go to a safer private school. Or you can send that child to a logic-free, rote learning online system.
Florida staff are resigning in droves. It is not that they don’t love their jobs and their kids. They are afraid for their lives.
DeSantis is not stupid. The ultimate threat to any future GOP success is not the census (although that is important.) It’s education.