{"id":2026723,"date":"2023-09-09T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miami-dade-school-board-again-rejects-lgbtq-month\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T11:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T15:54:27","slug":"miami-dade-school-board-again-rejects-lgbtq-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miami-dade-school-board-again-rejects-lgbtq-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade School Board Rejects LGBTQ Month Once More"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fmiami-dade-school-board-again-rejects-lgbtq-month%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=2026723&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--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<p>For \u2063the second \u2063time, the \u2063Miami-Dade County School Board rejected \u200ba proposal \u200dthat would&#8217;ve made October \u2063&#8221;LGBTQ history month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A similar measure proposed \u200din September 2022 \u200bhad already \u200cfailed in an 8\u20131 vote.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 7, the Florida\u200c school board decided 5\u20133 to turn down the \u2063measure at 1\u2062 a.m. in the\u200c morning after allowing dozens of speakers \u200dfrom \u200dboth sides to make \u200dtheir respective cases in an \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bathroom-monitors-and-no-urinals-california-school-district-stretches-to-protect-kids-without-violating-trans-law\/\" title=\"California school district implements measures to protect students without violating transgender laws, including bathroom monitors and removal of urinals.\">hours-long debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Related Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/disney-executive-who-left-after-dont-say-gay-controversy-made-119505-per-day-4997446\">Disney Executive Who Left After &#8216;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8217; Controversy Made $119,505 per Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp-caption\">1\/20\/2023<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/floridas-desantis-rebukes-dont-say-gay-media-narrative-does-it-say-that-in-the-bill-4324240\">Florida&#8217;s DeSantis\u2064 Rebukes &#8216;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8217; Media Narrative: &#8216;Does It Say That in the\u200d Bill?&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp-caption\">3\/8\/2022<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the last two years, the school boards across the Sunshine State have been increasingly filled with members\u200b aligned with conservatives in support of legislation that opponents\u2064 call &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8221; laws.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 so-called &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8221; movement\u200d called for parents\u2062 to exercise their rights and influence local curricula to protect their children from the \u200cLGBTQ agenda.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>Many parents are increasingly up in arms as\u2062 schools across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miami-dade-school-board-again-rejects-lgbtq-month\/\" title=\"Miami-Dade School Board Rejects LGBTQ Month Once More\">country promote sexually explicit \u200dcontent<\/a>,\u200c homosexuality,\u2063 and sex changes for minors, without their consent.<\/p>\n<h2>Florida at the Forefront of\u2062 the Parental Rights Movement<\/h2>\n<p>The Miami-Dade school board last recognized\u200c &#8220;LGBTQ history month&#8221; in 2021 after social conservatives took over\u200c after being appointed by Florida&#8217;s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shortcode post-related-videos\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The \u2062state&#8217;s Don&#8217;t Say Gay Bill was signed into\u200b law in March 2022 and \u200cbarred public school teachers from discussing\u200d gender identity or sexual orientation with students.<\/p>\n<p>Initially called the Parental Rights in \u2063Education \u200bAct, the legislation originally only banned \u2064those subjects for students in grades\u200c K-3, but the Florida \u200cBoard of \u200dEducation expanded its scope to include all grades in April.<\/p>\n<p>The usage of pronouns that do not recognize the two biological genders\u2063 was also banned in schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is about someone&#8217;s sexual preference and not a cultural issue,&#8221; Roberto Alonso, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-fight-conservative-school-board-member-blows-the-lid-off-inner-workings-of-the-lefts-monopoly-on-education\/\" title=\"America's Fight: Conservative School Board Member Blows the Lid off Inner Workings of the Left's Monopoly on Education\">conservative school board member<\/a> \u200dwho voted to \u200creject the proposal, told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s imposing ideologies and a sexual discussion that should not be happening \u2062inside of our schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under a \u200cseparate Board of Education \u2063rule, teachers could lose their educator credentials \u200bfor teaching those topics to students through grade 12.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>The new\u2063 policies are part of a conservative effort to eliminate left-wing radical &#8220;indoctrination&#8221; in Florida schools, \u2064particularly\u200c around classroom\u2064 topics and literature about race and sexuality.<\/p>\n<h2>LGBTQ Advocates Cry Bigotry for Failed Vote<\/h2>\n<p>Miami-Dade County \u200bschool board member Lucia Baez-Geller, \u2064who supported recognizing &#8220;LGBTQ history month,&#8221; called the\u2062 proposal a &#8220;ceremonial&#8221; and &#8220;nonbinding&#8221; way to support members of that community in the \u200dstate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Advocates called the proposed observation \u200ba\u200c reminder &#8220;to \u200ball cultures within our wider community of the important\u2063 roles \u2064that LGBTQ people have taken in \u2064shaping the social, historical, legal, and political \u200cworlds we live in today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dproposal specifically \u200cstated that the \u200cbill would \u2063be &#8220;in accordance with state \u2062and federal\u2064 law&#8221; to avoid a confrontation with Florida&#8217;s parental rights law.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>Ms. Baez-Geller blamed\u2064 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pas-democrat-secstate-resigns-after-botching-process-over-amendment-for-child-sex-abuse-victims\/\" title=\"PA\u2019s Democrat SecState Resigns After Botching Process Over Amendment For Child Sex Abuse Victims\">failed vote<\/a> on &#8220;anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and\u200d agenda&#8221; from the DeSantis administration and state lawmakers, noting that the idea was not seen \u200bas controversial when it passed in \u200c2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This didn&#8217;t happen in 2021 before the Parental Rights in Education bill,&#8221; she said at the hearing,\u200b adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s the cultural politics, it&#8217;s the political agendas, it&#8217;s the war on\u200d minorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami-Dade County School Board rejected a proposal for the second time, denying October as &#8220;LGBTQ history month.&#8221; Previously, a similar measure failed in September 2022 with an 8-1 vote. 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