DeSantis hits back at Biden’s ‘book burning’ comment: ‘We want education, not indoctrination’
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis strike again at Joe Biden Thursday throughout an “Ingraham Angle” city corridor function just after the president alluded to politicians “burning books” to try and “rating political points.”
“Now there are also quite a few politicians hoping to score political points, attempting to ban textbooks – even math books,” Biden explained Wednesday during the annual Nationwide and State Academics of the Year award ceremony.
The president appeared to be referring to the Florida Section of Education’s decision to bar 41% of math textbooks for general public colleges they claimed provided significant race theory and “social-psychological understanding.” Nine of these books have been reinstated right after the publishers scrubbed the prohibited articles.
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Ron DeSantis speaks during the Conservative Political Motion Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on Feb. 24, 2022.
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“Did you ever feel when you are instructing you’d be worrying about reserve burnings and banning guides all mainly because it does not suit somebody’s political agenda?” Biden included at the time.
Speaking from Orlando Thursday, DeSantis was questioned by Laura Ingraham about the apparent “pot shot” from Biden and he reported that “we attract a difficult line in Florida” relating to education.
“We want education and learning, we do not want indoctrination,” DeSantis reported before he was cut off by a extensive round of applause from the viewers.
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DeSantis included that his administration thinks parents have a “fundamental job” in their children’s upbringing and schooling though Biden and his administration think parents need to “butt out” so schools can indoctrinate “what they assume your kid should really study or feel.”
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“This is a enormous debate in our region – it’s sad that it is,” DeSantis ongoing.
“Why would you not want mom and dad associated? But they never want mothers and fathers included because they know that will stand for an impediment to them indoctrinating them the way they want.”
