{"id":1939463,"date":"2023-05-27T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaking-to-homeschool-parents-desantis-pounds-parental-rights-and-educational-change\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T20:29:28","slug":"speaking-to-homeschool-parents-desantis-pounds-parental-rights-and-educational-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaking-to-homeschool-parents-desantis-pounds-parental-rights-and-educational-change\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis emphasizes parental rights and education change to homeschool parents."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fspeaking-to-homeschool-parents-desantis-pounds-parental-rights-and-educational-change%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=1939463&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--><h2>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Champions Education and Parental Rights<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0527\/36c856ce-0539-42b5-a9f2-c3c4e712f542\/audio.mp3?length=5109165&#038;duration=426\"><\/div>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently spoke to a crowd of homeschool parents in Orlando, recapping the best hits of his administration to an appreciative audience. At his first public speech since declaring his candidacy, the crowd frequently roared their approval.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Much of what DeSantis has done to fight what he typically calls \u201cthe woke agenda\u201d is aimed at parents concerned about what their children are learning in school.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And this was a room full of people\u2014more than 4,000, according to DeSantis\u2019s office\u2014who think schools are so out of whack they teach their kids at home.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4390202\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/04\/07\/IMG_8795-1200x900.jpeg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/04\/07\/IMG_8795-1200x900.jpeg\" alt=\"Opponents of the academic doctrine known as critical race theory protest outside of the Loudoun County School Board headquarters in Ashburn, Va., on June 22, 2021.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>DeSantis has done a lot to fight against the &#8220;woke agenda&#8221; in schools. He has reopened Florida\u2019s schools early during the COVID pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaking-to-homeschool-parents-desantis-pounds-parental-rights-and-educational-change\/\" title=\"DeSantis emphasizes parental rights and education change to homeschool parents.\">pulled sexually explicit materials<\/a> off public school library shelves, and put the Constitution and civics back in the classroom. He has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-war-on-charter-schools-is-sending-families-into-the-arms-of-republicans\/\" title=\"Democrats\u2019 War On Charter Schools Is Sending Families Into The Arms Of Republicans\">increased school choice<\/a> and support for homeschool families, and backed vocational education at college.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Florida is ranked No. 1 in education by U.S. News and World Report.<\/li>\n<li>Ranked No. 1 in college affordability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DeSantis has also cleaned house at the state\u2019s New College, firing the president and installing a new board of conservative members charged with making the school a classical liberal arts college.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s his war with Disney, the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-urges-workers-to-make-your-voice-heard-as-amazon-employees-vote-on-union\/\" title=\"Biden Urges Workers to \u2018Make Your Voice Heard\u2019 as Amazon Employees Vote on Union\">biggest private employer<\/a>, with Disney World just outside Orlando. It was triggered by the company\u2019s opposition to his signature Parental Rights in Education bill, but DeSantis has also made it about the company that once defined itself as \u201cfamily friendly\u201d beginning to sexualize its child-directed entertainment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4129512\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/11\/29\/2021-06-23T014600Z_729588600_RC2V5O97ZAOL_RTRMADP_3_USA-RACE-EDUCATION-1200x818.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/11\/29\/2021-06-23T014600Z_729588600_RC2V5O97ZAOL_RTRMADP_3_USA-RACE-EDUCATION-1200x818.jpg\" alt=\"Opponents of the academic doctrine known as critical race theory protest outside of the Loudoun County School Board headquarters in Ashburn, Va., on June 22, 2021.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>DeSantis has bolstered parents\u2019 rights to advise and consent to what their children are being taught, restored age-appropriateness to what children are taught at various grades, and halted what he has begun calling \u201cthe pronoun Olympics\u201d from public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Parents at the Florida Parent Educators Homeschool Convention frequently erupted in cheers, going wild for lines like \u201cgender ideology has no place in our education system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho would have thought the FBI would ever go after parents going to school board meetings? And yet that is happening and has happened,\u201d DeSantis said, alluding to parents in Loudoun County, Va., tagged as domestic terrorists\u2014and whose political reaction helped feed the upset victory of Glenn Youngkin in the Virginia governor\u2019s race in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said Florida wants parents involved in their children\u2019s education and \u201carmed with the ability to make sure their kids are in a safe environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe political left, though, \u201cmake no mistake, they don\u2019t want the parents involved in education, because they view you as an impediment to their ideological agenda. They view you as an impediment to their ability to indoctrinate kids with their beliefs and their agendas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Supporting the restoration of civics education to Florida classrooms, he said it was essential to teach about the republic\u2019s foundations, its religious influences, and those of the English constitution, \u201call these important things that have become a lost art in modern American society.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3240962\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/02\/17\/Washington_Constitutional_Convention_1787.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/02\/17\/Washington_Constitutional_Convention_1787.jpg\" alt=\"The 1856 painting \u201cWashington at Constitutional Convention of 1787, signing of U.S. Constitution\u201d by Junius Brutus Stearns.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>DeSantis tied together broad themes like education, the Framers\u2019 intent in creating the Constitution, and what it takes to keep a democracy alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re doing is taking education into our own hands as Floridians, and you\u2019re doing it as parents in the homeschool movement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re doing it in Tallahassee, as governor and our legislature, to say education is just something we\u2019ve got to get right. You cannot have a society in which education just totally collapses into a lot of these side issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always took for granted that we lived in a free country,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cI never thought that there would honestly be a threat to freedom here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the bureaucracy\u2019s overreach during COVID-19 and the \u201cweaponization\u201d of agencies like the FBI, he said, \u201cit\u2019s really impressed upon me just how fragile freedom really is.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5275562\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18\/id5275562-Jim-Jordan-1200x800.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/18\/id5275562-Jim-Jordan-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) speaks during a news conference on \u201cFBI whistleblower testimony\u201d at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on May 18, 2023.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOur Founding Fathers understood this when they met in Philadelphia to frame the Constitution in 1787. They brought with them an intense study of the history of every republic that had ever been tried in the history of mankind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir study showed them that there was only one thing that all of these experiments in republican forms of government had in common, throughout history, and i<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis highlighted his administration&#8217;s achievements to homeschool parents in Orlando on May 26. This was his first public speech since announcing his candidacy two days earlier. The crowd frequently cheered in approval of his efforts to combat the &#8220;woke agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":1939464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[5103,4980,5152,17227,9379,8818,5007,5579],"class_list":["post-1939463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-change","tag-desantis","tag-education","tag-emphasizes","tag-homeschool","tag-parental","tag-parents","tag-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}