Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law this week that ends teachers’ ability to abuse a book challenge law that was implemented to protect children from pornographic materials in school.
The law now significantly limits the ability of Florida residents who do not have children in the state’s education system to be able to challenge book titles.
“The idea that someone can use the parents rights and the curriculum transparency to start objecting to every single book to try to make a mockery of this is just wrong,” DeSantis said the day before the bill signing. “That’s performative. That’s political.”
DeSantis said that people did not want their time wasted by the leftists who were trying to get classic books banned.
“We don’t care about your performative efforts to try to make a name for yourself, that’s not appropriate,” he said. “So when you have some school administrators or teachers that are saying that…
