Education in Florida. DeSantis is still going at it when it comes to suppressing education. No matter what you call it he is suppressing the education that our students and future workers are going to need in the real world. His attacks on equity, inclusion and diversity training will affect, in my opinion, the ability to function in the real world. I think the most important job of any educational system is to prepare our young people to function in the real world. It is a sad day when our governor signed legislation that is meant to groom our students than make them think.

I often wonder what kind of world DeSantis thinks he is sending these students out into after they graduate. In my opinion he is not wanting to prepare them at all. Does he really think that he can just legislate the idea of racism out of our vocabulary by eliminating the teaching of racial history in America? Is he really that stupid, or, is he really that big of a bigot. For me he is just proving that Critical Race Theory should be taught more now than at any point in our history. You can’t solve the problem of racism until you learn to understand what racism is and how it has affected the development of our nation, the problems that is facing us now, and we will face in the future. Black people are not going away, in most cases their ancestors have been here longer than most of our families. Many of their lineages go back long before the American Revolution. They did not migrate here they were captured and brought here as slaves. They are here because of Anglo Saxon greed for cheap labor. You can say that they should go back to Africa but they are a bigger part of American History than most of my ancestors have been which mostly migrated here in the early 1900. This is their home and we made it their home the minute we stole them away from their families in Africa over 300 years ago and sold them here as slaves.

 Our students that will eventually go out into the work force, whether DeSantis likes it or not, will be working in a very diverse place. They could have a Gay boss. They could have a Black boss. They could have a Woman boss. All those things exist in the real world. So why in the hell is DeSantis so dead set about diversity? As the world gets smaller and smaller the more of a need to recognize the diversity of our society that fits into the bigger world. We are more and more dealing with an international market and we need to prepare these students to deal with the international market. We are so arrogant to think that the future revolves around us. China is about 3 times bigger than we are and so is India. People make up the consumer market and India’s and China’s markets are huge. Our young people have got to be trained in that very diverse world that includes many different cultures and beliefs. Disney recognizes that. Look at all of the people from all around the world that visit that park. On any given day you can here dozens of different languages with many different cultures. I think that many businesses recognize that. You can play to the White superiority all you want but that is not going to help us in the long run.

You can say that you don’t care what the rest of the world thinks but if we are going to continue to be the leader of the free world we better start caring. The rest of the world knows what we have done and what we are doing. In today’s digital world there are not many secrets. They know about our Black History probably better than we do. Why? Because history is written by Historians and not by Politicians. No matter who wins the Presidential election that person will never be able to rewrite our history. In today’s digital age is pretty much impossible to undo the truths that have already been written and try to change those truth with lies. Just think about every book in every library where we can access all those books 24/7 around the entire world. Just think of all the news articles that are archived about the reporting of our history while it was happening. Those archives well go back centuries. Just do a Google search for Selma’s Bloody Sunday and just see what you come up with. Our history cannot be just legislated away by signing a bill. By trying to hide our sins it only makes us look like liars to the rest of the world. Liars that can’t be trusted. We cannot lecture other counties about human rights when we deny many the basic rights at home.

Should parents be involved in their children’s education? Of course they should. Parents play a huge role in their children’s education. Most of the best educated people I know came from homes where their parents were involved in their children’s education. They worked with the teachers making sure that their child was performing up to standards that were being set. They made sure that every day their child prepared for the classroom and in a lot of cases wanted to make sure that their child was challenged in the classroom. Parents should not use their children as some political pawn for power by any political group. Some parents are doing that in Florida.  A Principal was fired in
Florida because the students saw a picture of Leonardo Di Vinci’s sculpture of David which is one of the most perfect pieces of art ever created. That parent change the direction of the entire school and did a disservice, in my opinion, to the entire student body. No parent should be able to object to what is being taught by any school district that has carefully established a curriculum that will benefit the future success of the entire student body. A parent that objects to the fact that their child is learning about the real world and changes that curriculum for the entire student body is doing a disservice to the entire student body. If they are so dead set against the teaching of the truth to students in our schools then maybe them should home school their children?

If you want to look at why other countries are performing better educationally than we are all you have to do is look at the home and the commitment that the home has for education. I was looking at an article in Newsweek from 2021 on the most educated countries in the world and I was not surprised to see that we were ranked 11^th. I was not surprised that both South Korea and Japan were ahead of us. The only country that was on the list that was ahead of us that surprised me was Russia.