On Tuesday, the Florida Senate’s education committee passed a bill banning businesses and schools from forcing individuals to be subject to divisive leftist theories, like critical race theory.
According to a summary of the legislation, “The bill specifies that subjecting any individual, as a condition of employment, membership, certification, licensing, credentialing, or passing an examination, to training, instruction, or any other required activity that espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such individual to believe certain specified divisive concepts constitutes unlawful discrimination.”
“The bill defines individual freedoms based on the fundamental truth that all individuals are equal before the law and have inalienable rights. Accordingly, the bill requires that instruction, instructional materials, and professional development in public schools be consistent with principles of individual freedom,” the summary added.
In a push against recent leftist radicalism, “The bill provides a legislative acknowledgment of the fundamental truth that all individuals are equal before the law and have inalienable rights.”
The bill also banned schools from pushing ahistorical education like “denial or minimization of the Holocaust, and the teaching of Critical Race Theory.” Additionally, the bill says educators cannot “define American history as something other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence.”
