{"id":1121346,"date":"2021-12-15T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1121346"},"modified":"2021-12-15T11:44:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:44:29","slug":"watch-desantis-gives-powerful-speech-introducing-stop-w-o-k-e-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-desantis-gives-powerful-speech-introducing-stop-w-o-k-e-act\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: DeSantis Gives Powerful Speech Introducing Stop W.O.K.E. Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-desantis-gives-powerful-speech-introducing-stop-w-o-k-e-act%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1121346&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a powerful indictment of Critical Race Theory (CRT) ideology being foisted on public schools and corporations across the nation on Wednesday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis introduced the Stop W.O.K.E Act, stating, \u201cNo taxpayer dollars should be used to teach our kids to hate our country or to hate each other.\u201d DeSantis explained that the proposed legislation would give \u201cparents a private right of action to be able to enforce the prohibition on CRT and they get to recover attorneys\u2019 fees,\u201d adding, \u201cA lot of times, these people will fear lawsuits more than a fine from the state Department of Education because when you do a lawsuit, you get discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also announced that the proposed legislation would \u201cdefund any money for K-12 or higher ed going to CRT consultants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis began by asserting, \u201cI think it\u2019s important to say, what are we doing positively in terms of what we want to be in our schools. I think we\u2019ve done more than any other state to place a renewed emphasis on American civics and teaching kids about the Constitution and what it means to be an American. And we\u2019ve been able to get requirements back into the high schools, which is very important; we have the ability and we\u2019ll be doing exams when people leave school, which will be like a citizenship exam that naturalized citizens have to take because at the end of the day, everybody that comes through our school system, some of them will go into a variety of different fields but everyone\u2019s going to be an American citizen, and they\u2019re going to have duties and responsibilities. And they need to understand what that means and they need to understand the principles that our country was founded upon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also have been able to help teachers; we just launched \u2014and it\u2019s going to come into effect next year \u2014 the civics training program, where if you go through it, really get deep knowledge and understanding on the fundamentals, you get a $3,000 bonus,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we want all our students to understand: why was our country founded? What were some of the key ideas that made us different?\u201d he asked rhetorically. \u201cFor example, our founding fathers said that we are endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights. The rights do not come from government. So these are natural rights, and we create a Constitutional system not to give us rights, but to protect the rights that we already have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what you see now with the rise of this woke ideology is an attempt to really delegitimize our history and to delegitimize our institutions,\u201d he declared. \u201cI view the wokeness as a form of cultural Marxism. \u2026 They really want to tear at the fabric of our society and our culture and things that we\u2019ve taken for granted, like the ability of parents to direct the upbringing of their kids. So this is really, really significant, and when you see these things throughout the country, where they take down a Thomas Jefferson statue in New York City or they take down Abraham Lincoln in Massachusetts or they take George Washington\u2019s name off schools in California, that is an attempt to erase history. They want to delegitimize the founding of the country and the institutions and they basically want to replace it with a very militant form of leftism that would absolutely destroy this country if that ever took hold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so we have a responsibility to stand for the truth, to stand for what\u2019s right. \u2026 We have to protect our kids from some very pernicious ideologies that are trying to be forced upon them all across the country,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we are going to be introducing to the public, and we have legislators who are going to help us with this, &nbsp;a new piece of legislation for the upcoming legislative session, called, \u201cStop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act,\u2019 the Stop W.O.K.E. Act,\u201d DeSantis announced. \u201cAnd this will do a number of things that are very important: One: It will put into statute the (Florida) Department of Education\u2019s prohibition on CRT in K through 12 schools. No taxpayer dollars should be used to teach our kids to hate our country or to hate each other. And that\u2019s important and that\u2019s all well and good but I think what we\u2019ve seen recently is you can legislate things like parents\u2019 bill of rights, you can have certain things and sometimes the school districts always follow it. And so we are going to be including in this legislation giving parents a private right of action to be able to enforce the prohibition on CRT and they get to recover attorneys\u2019 fees when they prevail which is very important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then DeSantis pointed out the efficacy of the proposed law: \u201cHere\u2019s the thing: A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a powerful indictment of Critical Race Theory (CRT) ideology being foisted on public schools and corporations across the nation on Wednesday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis introduced the Stop W.O.K.E Act, stating, \u201cNo taxpayer dollars should be used to teach our kids to hate our country or to hate each other.\u201d DeSantis explained that the proposed legislation would give \u201cparents a private right of action to be able to enforce the prohibition on CRT and they get to recover attorneys\u2019 fees,\u201d adding, \u201cA lot of times, these people will fear lawsuits more than a fine from the state Department of Education because when you do a lawsuit, you get discovery.\u201dHe also announced that the proposed legislation would \u201cdefund any money for K-12 or higher ed going to CRT consultants.\u201dDeSantis began by asserting, \u201cI think it\u2019s important to say, what are we doing positively in terms of what we want to be in our schools. I think we\u2019ve done more than any other state to place a renewed emphasis on American civics and teaching kids about the Constitution and what it means to be an American. And we\u2019ve been able to get requirements back into the high schools, which is very important; we have the ability and we\u2019ll be doing exams when people leave school, which will be like a citizenship exam that naturalized citizens have to take because at the end of the day, everybody that comes through our school system, some of them will go into a variety of different fields but everyone\u2019s going to be an American citizen, and they\u2019re going to have duties and responsibilities. And they need to understand what that means and they need to understand the principles that our country was founded upon.\u201d\u201cWe also have been able to help teachers; we just launched \u2014and it\u2019s going to come into effect next year \u2014 the civics training program, where if you go through it, really get deep knowledge and understanding on the fundamentals, you get a $3,000 bonus,\u201d he added.\u201cSo we want all our students to understand: why was our country founded? What were some of the key ideas that made us different?\u201d he asked rhetorically. \u201cFor example, our founding fathers said that we are endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights. The rights do not come from government. So these are natural rights, and we create a Constitutional system not to give us rights, but to protect the rights that we already have.\u201d\u201cI think what you see now with the rise of this woke ideology is an attempt to really delegitimize our history and to delegitimize our institutions,\u201d he declared. \u201cI view the wokeness as a form of cultural Marxism. \u2026 They really want to tear at the fabric of our society and our culture and things that we\u2019ve taken for granted, like the ability of parents to direct the upbringing of their kids. So this is really, really significant, and when you see these things throughout the country, where they take down a Thomas Jefferson statue in New York City or they take down Abraham Lincoln in Massachusetts or they take George Washington\u2019s name off schools in California, that is an attempt to erase history. They want to delegitimize the founding of the country and the institutions and they basically want to replace it with a very militant form of leftism that would absolutely destroy this country if that ever took hold.\u201d\u201cAnd so we have a responsibility to stand for the truth, to stand for what\u2019s right. \u2026 We have to protect our kids from some very pernicious ideologies that are trying to be forced upon them all across the country,\u201d he stated.\u201cToday, we are going to be introducing to the public, and we have legislators who are going to help us with this, \u00a0a new piece of legislation for the upcoming legislative session, called, \u201cStop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act,\u2019 the Stop W.O.K.E. Act,\u201d DeSantis announced. \u201cAnd this will do a number of things that are very important: One: It will put into statute the (Florida) Department of Education\u2019s prohibition on CRT in K through 12 schools. No taxpayer dollars should be used to teach our kids to hate our country or to hate each other. And that\u2019s important and that\u2019s all well and good but I think what we\u2019ve seen recently is you can legislate things like parents\u2019 bill of rights, you can have certain things and sometimes the school districts always follow it. And so we are going to be including in this legislation giving parents a private right of action to be able to enforce the prohibition on CRT and they get to recover attorneys\u2019 fees when they prevail which is very important.\u201dThen DeSantis pointed out the efficacy of the proposed law: \u201cHere\u2019s the thing: A lot of times, these people will fear lawsuits more than a fine from the state Department of Education because when you do a lawsuit, you get discovery. And you\u2019re subject to that, and when they say they\u2019re not doing CRT and then you have all this information showing that they are doing it, it really is an uncomfortable position for them.\u201dHe slammed CRT advocates, saying, \u201cWe also need to understand that this has become a cottage industry, this CRT. There\u2019s people making huge amounts of money. They basically will get tens of thousands of dollars to go in and do a training, sometimes at schools, sometimes in businesses, basically saying, \u2018Pay me $50,000 so I can teach your employees how racist capitalism is.\u2019 And I\u2019m thinking to myself, \u2018Well, you\u2019re certainly charging a king\u2019s ransom to do that. You don\u2019t complain about capitalism when you\u2019re lining your own pocket.\u2019He concluded, \u201cOur legislation will defund any money for K-12 or higher ed going to CRT consultants.\u201d[embedded content]The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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