The Purging Has Begun!

As teachers prepare to go back to school in the fall there is widespread panic and confusion over what it and what isn’t allowed. Some school are allowing photos of spouses on the teachers desks and other are banning photos of same sex partners.

So-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law confuses some Florida schools
AP News
By Anthony Izaguirre and Adriana Gomez Licon
August 15, 2022


Some Florida schools have moved library books and debated changing textbooks in response to a law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” — and some teachers have worried that family pictures on their desks could get them in trouble.

As students return from summer break, educators are cautiously adjusting and waiting to see how the new law governing lessons on gender and sexual orientation will be interpreted and enforced.

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But some worry it sets a tone that will leave LGBTQ teachers and kids feeling ostracized.

“The messaging of this law is horrible. It’s toxic, it’s discriminatory,” said Gretchen Robinson, a lesbian high school teacher in Orange County. “It targets, very obviously, LGBTQ students, it ‘others’ them, and that is not OK.”

I foresee LGBTQ+ students being ostracized, stigmatized, and bullied. The law has created confusion and over reach among administrators, teachers, parents, and students.

Workshops about the law that her school district’s legal team held over the summer caused confusion. Some staff said they were told teachers in kindergarten through third grade could not display pride flags or photos of their same-sex spouses. The district later said the law only applied to classroom instruction and that the photos were allowed. It apologized for offering bad guidance with a hypothetical discussion.

Robinson said schools in her area had given out rainbow-colored lanyards and inclusion stickers, but she was not sure whether teachers would continue to wear or display them. She also worried that some teachers will “err on the side of caution and leave stuff out” during lessons.

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Norma Schwartz, mother of a fifth grader and an eighth grader in Miami-Dade schools, said the law may cause some students, families and teachers to feel targeted.

“It goes against our mission and vision, to empower all children, not make them feel like they don’t belong,” said Schwartz, who is part of the Miami-Dade County Council PTA, which has opposed the law. “As far as parental rights, we are the PTA. We have been around for 100 years. We want parental engagement, we want to empower parents.”

And the violence and hate crimes has already started to increase!

Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' Law Fuels Anti-LGBTQ Hate Online
Research that analyzed social media posts finds that hateful references to gays, lesbians and other LGBTQ people surged online after Florida passed a law that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
AP via US News and World Report
By Associated Press
August 10, 2022


Research that analyzed social media posts finds that hateful references to gays, lesbians and other LGBTQ people surged online after Florida passed a law that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.

References to pedophiles and “ grooming ” rose by more than 400 percent in the month after Florida's “Don't Say Gay” measure was approved, according to a report released Wednesday by the Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy groups, and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit group that tracks online extremism.

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Critics have said the law sends a hateful message about LGBTQ people.

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Influential conservatives drove much of the increase, the researchers found, through their own posts or by liking or forwarding posts from others. They include U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and DeSantis' press secretary, Christina Pushaw, who was criticized for a social media post in March that compared criticism of the bill to pedophilia itself.

“If you’re against the Anti-Grooming Bill, you are probably a groomer or at least you don’t denounce the grooming,” Pushaw tweeted.

It is only going to get worst, this is the tip of the iceberg!

With Republicans followers talking about civil war, attacking the FBI, and Congressional Republican talking about passing laws like the ones passed Texas and Florida, things are going to get a lot, lot worst!

The bottom line… A Gallup poll found that Republicans only make up 27% of the voters, while Democrats are 29%, and independents make up a whopping 42%! It becomes obvious that we need to get the independents out and vote for the Democratic party.

We need to staff phone banks, go door-to-door, and write letters to the editors to help persuade the independents to get out and vote! We need to get over our dislike for politics and take an active part in politics, stuff envelops and other behind the scenes work or get out they on the front lines at polling places and knocking on doors. I will.