Sen. Shevrin Jones: My GOP colleagues in the Florida Legislature are helping Ron DeSantis destroy our colleges. These students are fighting back.
. Students trying to understand the world in which they exist and the inequities in our society would be penalized for doing what we should expect all students to do: analyze their communities and fight for progress. Higher education is supposed to be an experience through which students can explore new topics and be exposed to diversity of thought across various areas of study.
Contrary to what DeSantis and my conservative colleagues would have you believe, professors at our state schools do not indoctrinate students. They don’t tell them what to think or believe. They help them develop the critical thinking skills necessary to debate the issues in our complex world. House Bill 999 is part of a larger war to curtail students’ ability to think, question and engage in our democracy.
It’s those who are pushing this dangerous legislation who want our next generation to be compliant, ill-informed and ill-equipped to live in modern society. As he obviously prepares to run for president, DeSantis’on public education is far bigger than this bill. House Bill 999 is part of a larger war to curtail students’ ability to think, question and engage in our democracy.
Engaging in our democracy was what those Divine Nine members from Florida A&M were doing when they showed up at last week’s committee and got some of the language in House Bill 999 changed. And it’s what all Floridians, whether they’re in those organizations or not, need to do to help kill the entire bill.Shevrin Jones is the first openly LGBTQ state senator in Florida history.
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