‘Our customers are our parents, and we have to be driven to give parents what they are asking us’

A year ago the Miami-Dade County School Board voted 7-1 to create LGBTQ History Month. By the margin the board voted to smother the idea in its cradle. The only change: the board had wanted to recognize Obergefell v. Hodges and Bostock v. Clayton County. Behold the courage:

Attorney Alejandro Serrano, one of the public speakers, claimed the measure went against Florida law. School Board Attorney Walter James Harvey said the recognition itself isn’t against the law, but the curriculum could be.

“They can file complaints. There is a special magistrate process … There is a procedure that requires expeditious review,” Harvey said about the opposing parents’ recourse.

Baez-Geller, who represents District 3, said the academic aspect applies to Supreme Court cases in 12th-grade classes and those would be up to the teachers. She also said parents can decide to opt-out.

“We currently at Miami-Dade County schools don’t have an LGBTQ curriculum,” Baez-Geller said adding, “This item does not indoctrinate students. It does not force an agenda on students.”

Fraga, who represents District 5, said last year she voted against the recognition and she planned to do the same this year, partly because H-11 creates a “hostile” environment and uncertainty.

But I didn’t include the most scrumptious quote. “If we are going to allow the teachers to decide what will be taught in classrooms during this time, that concerns me,” Fraga said.

Imagine — allowing teachers to teach. Socialism, readers.

By scaring administrators from presenting their curricula, the Stop Woke bill is working as intended. To teach LGBTQ history without the court cases that hastened this country’s acceptance of us as citizens with privileges and immunities is like teaching Black History Month in February without Brown v. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia. Emboldened by a governor who has concluded trans citizens make easier targets than gays and lesbians, ghoulish orgs like Moms For Liberty, aided by the ubiquitous Proud Boys, can delegitimate public education to the point where only those without recourse attend while the rest of Florida’s children enroll in private schools. And that message has penetrated credulous brains like board member Lubby Navarro’s:

Our customers are our parents, and we have to be driven to give parents what they are asking us, this school system, for their children.

They’ve sold their children out.
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