Newly elected Florida school board member wants to revive corporal punishment, cut rights for LGBTQ students

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Rutherford said he wants to bring back corporal punishment and said behavior from disabled students, in particular, is 'out of control.'

For example, he said, an LGBTQ student group in Collier County gave teachers a sticker to put on their doors with a rainbow that says"safe zone." One teacher, he said, refused to put it up.

"Queer students in Florida, especially those of color and those who are trans and nonbinary, are being cruelly targeted by extremists," said GLSEN executive director Melanie Willingham-Jaggers. "They are facing a hostile climate amid curriculum censorship laws and have been repeatedly subject to political attacks. Florida's students deserve so much better from the adult politicians who are supposed to support them.

In short, while religious texts like the Bible are allowed in public schools for the purpose of studying, what is not allowed is devotion orRutherford said he wants to see"textbooks that are free from bias, censorship and rewritten history," as well as"morals and ethics in school." Rutherford was also eager to see a civics class reinstated in the curriculum, where students would study the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, per Gov. Ron DeSantis' recent policy.

 

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Let's punish those already suffering seems to be his message...if you're not mirroring the subservient & obedient normals, you're a ass-kickable troublemaker? When bullies are in charge...

katievoteblue Try putting hands on kids like that in public schools. Let alone disabled kids. I foresee terrible problems for Florida!

Julesistheway Fascism expanding. I wouldn't live in FL if you paid me. Way too much government control. Gops claim more freedoms as they take them away.

If he do that he would facing with the rebellions from the students, cause they are more critismand they will never accept this kind of punishment and they are a good children who wants to treat and appreciate them as a normal people

Our parent were raised that way. This generation is sacrified by the radical left.

Hateful.

So he wants to beat disabled kids? Bold political move !

Florida is a gun-toting state. Just see how long parents will let FL gets away with smacking someone’s child on behalf of the public school system.

USA

Doesn’t sound great, it’s 21 century

Floriduh

Unhappiest place on earth

I mean yet again….Florida. Just moonwalking through life. “We love moving backwards” should be their motto. DeSantis is correct. Nobody is “woke” in Florida. Everyone is asleep.

Excellent! Good for him. Good for the district.

lol florida is a cesspool

The people get what they vote for. Congratulations Florida.

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