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📚📚BOOK APPROVAL FINANCIALS 🧵
I'm not a lawyer. Just a dad who cannot understand why my children have access to 1.53% of the titles available in January.
As a financial analyst I couldn't understand how HB 1467 didn't go through financial review for public funding, so I read
Since
@GovRonDeSantis
specifically would like to continue to claim it is a "false narrative" here are the same books shelves but at the end are all the books available to a school of 1200 students 3 weeks into the review of 1.6m titles
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Since y'all wanna play the "this isn't really happening" game
They removed every single book from my children's classrooms...
I read books about the consequences of this when I was in school...
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They removed every single book from my children's classrooms...
I read books about the consequences of this when I was in school...
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Not only did they have all the teachers remove the books from their classrooms they took any library book the kids were reading and didn't let them finish.
All in a week where they are having a book fair fundraiser
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Nah. Not only that they removed the media/resource elective from their schedule and telling the kids that the librarian has to review every single book
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My kids seriously handled COVID horribly being schooled at home. The fact that my kids are heartbroken over this makes me a proud parent
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Since
@GovRonDeSantis
specifically would like to continue to claim it is a "false narrative" here are the same books shelves but at the end are all the books available to a school of 1200 students 3 weeks into the review of 1.6m titles
Since y'all wanna play the "this isn't really happening" game
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It's been a week without my kids having access to the books at school and I feel like I am crazy for being the only one who thinks this is crazy.
Apparently teachers have a list but students can't see it.
My daughter has been working on her own book with a working title
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@RonDeSantisFL
can we stop the games with my children's education? This is an elementary school yesterday with covered books.
Your answer dismissing the reality of what you are doing to our children didn't sit right with a lot of teachers and parents in Duval.
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Do I need to keep going or can my kids have their books back and parents have the right to sign an opt-in/out permission slip to have the same access to books as they had two weeks ago?
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It has come to my attention that the governor and school board are claiming my video didn't show the books on the other side of the room. You tell me if this is a library or storage...
This is what it looked like on February 6th.
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FL should have dropped the DeSantis
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Also,
@GovRonDeSantis
if you legitimately do not believe my kids reality i invite you to visit their elementary where I learned my kids lost all the books during literacy night and saw them covered for the first time while they were raising funds with a book fair.
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This is an unfunded capital project that was implemented without even having the catalogue infrastructure in place.
This "Final Review" deadline is July 1st, 2023. Less than 5 months away for less than 52 media specialist to review 1.6 million books.
DCPS BOOK REMOVAL 🧵:
Tl;Dr the removal of all books vs. parents signing permission slips is difference of $6.44 million vs $20k and it will take 2.5 years to complete the 1.6m books with current staffing at 10 minutes per book and would need 254 more SME to meet the deadline.
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It's me.. guy in Jacksonville
@GovRonDeSantis
references here.
the district has 6,000 of 1,600,000 titles approved making 99.625% of books inaccessible to students 3 weeks after a 100% removal and he is doing nothing to correct this in a timely manner.
DeSantis on the media: "They've tried to create in Florida a narrative -- it's basically a book ban hoax. It's a hoax, what they're doing."
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But you do not have to listen to me
@GovRonDeSantis
because
@DuvalSchools
posted this instructional video asking for "patience and grace" for these specialist that were removed from the classroom for this project.
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Got the "your services are no longer needed" call.
Kinda crazy to be gaslit by the school board when their directive to remove classroom libraries is posted online.
So if anyone knows of a financial planning & analysis job in Jax I would appreciate the heads up.
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This is from the district...
Greene doesn't give a !$#@ about tearing down classroom libraries, and don't take my word for it; take hers, or her lack of them anyways.
Classroom Libraries' via
@YouTube
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This was the books that were approved on the 14th that were available to students to check out.
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Dilla is a stand up guy. A while ago Dylan told him he was deaf and asked what a video said... Out of all his notifications since then he remembered and takes the time to summarize when asked.
It's the little things that make you a good person
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He mentioned his endorsed sheriff twice in a 45 second condolences video but did not acknowledge a single politician who immediately rushed to the scene. It is a choice to choose politics over people.
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"targeting people based on their race which is completely unacceptable" is rich coming from the governor who targets children based on race and gender identity.
BREAKING:
@GovRonDeSantis
issues a statement on Jacksonville shooting. Calls gunman a ‘scumbag’ says he took the cowardly way out. Condemns the racial motivations behind the shooting.
@ActionNewsJax
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My son's class was in the middle of reading "Ungifted" by
@gordonkorman
and he was reading "Measuring Up" by
@lilylamotte
for the Sunshine State challenge during state literacy week to win an ice cream social.
I just can't believe this is real life I have to explain to my kids.
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The
@VP
just came out and gave a no microphone speech to the overflow room. Here is my bad quality video.
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Losing a debate hosted by Sean Hannity on Fox News to a Democrat who is not running for president is exactly the reason why DeSantis is losing to a guy with 91 charges by 41 points in his home state.
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Already an upgrade with
@DonnaDeegan
!
Jacksonville has a mayor who will rap instead of quote rappers on napkins. 😂😂
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The district has said they have reviewed 6,000 titles (0.375% of the 1.6m) 16 days since media guidance resource where librarians work on reading comprehension with elementary students to complete this mandate for one county in Florida
UPDATED 📚 FINACIAL 🧵 🧵
This is a case where both sides can have their own truth but I am focusing on the reality of my kids education the past few weeks.
We 16 working days since all the books were removed and 6,000 titles is 0.375% of the 1.6 million titles.
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Jacksonville needs a mayor who wasn't a close friend with a pedophile
Not surprising.
Crime is a top issue for Jacksonville voters.
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"This isn't a political thing for me, and I'm obviously not trying to profit off of it... My main priority is to make sure that my kids' reality is known and attached to the people that made it my kids' reality... I just want my kids to be back to the normal they had a month ago"
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@bobmarkel
@theJRuss
Correct. Nobody asked them to do this. No school administrator would agree to this. They were told they must do this or be charged with a 3rd degree felony.
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Funny that i have posted all the receipts and the county has said the 6000 out of 1.6m are available making 99.625% of books in the country inaccessible to students.
Granted every interview and never hear a word from this definitely not being paid for this opinion journalists.
The teacher was not fired for posting a video.
The teacher was fired for posting a video that was bullish*t.
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@HiJaxxed
@PonchyJohn96
That isn't what is happening. Teachers are being threatened with jail because of the laws DeSantis put in place.
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Here is the list of approved books in DCPS middle schools. These are the only books that students can currently be checked out over a week after all books were removed.
It appears they will only list approved book lists to avoid having a banned book list.
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DCPS BOOK REMOVAL 🧵:
Tl;Dr the removal of all books vs. parents signing permission slips is difference of $6.44 million vs $20k and it will take 2.5 years to complete the 1.6m books with current staffing at 10 minutes per book and would need 254 more SME to meet the deadline.
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Cry more.
There is a right side of History. Monuments that embrace the horrors of our past refuse to allow us to move forward.
Deegan is our Mayor, not our Monarch. Waiting until nightfall before taking a backhoe to the Women of the South monument is blatant overreach.
This was Council’s decision to make. Regardless of your opinion of the monument, this is abuse of power & disregard for transparency.
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They want very badly to make the story about this one middle school but my kids in elementary school still don't have their media guidance resource because of this decision.
You have publicly announced the removal. why you can't admit this was a mistake and give permission slip
@jsh_franco
The viral video you are sharing shows less than half the story. Yes, those shelves were empty. But they were in a room full of books. See the video below for the full story.
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UPDATED 📚 FINACIAL 🧵 🧵
This is a case where both sides can have their own truth but I am focusing on the reality of my kids education the past few weeks.
We 16 working days since all the books were removed and 6,000 titles is 0.375% of the 1.6 million titles.
Books about Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron from Essential Voices are among nearly 6,000 books that are now reviewed/approved through the new state-required book review process. This topic has produced much misinformation. Read some facts here:
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Posted this video of empty bookshelves that pissed the sitting governor off...
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"Where are the stored books?"
-February 6th, 2023
Books were removed January 26th. This is my kids reality
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I know that my kid's truth and reality is important but it is hard being attacked by the state and local government.
I'm honestly just a dad who goofs around with Jaguars fans and tweets into the void.
You don't get to choose the things that go viral.
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My only goals
1.) Allow librarians teaching media resource again and
2.) Give parents the right of a opt-in/out permission slip saying they trust their teachers and specialists until reviewed
Maybe develop the system for kids and parents to review books at home.
DeSantis is requiring that EVERY book in classroom libraries & media centers be reviewed by 'certified media specialists'.
To show how idiotic this is, in Duval County, where there are 1.6M books on school shelves, it has taken 54 "specialists" 16 days to …
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The best part about this clip is that DeSantis just showed all his opponents (who will have an equal microphone) how to get under his skin. It will only take one response like this during a debate
“You have allowed people to hunt people like me”:
A Black audience member gets into a back and forth with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) at a Jacksonville news conference after questioning state policies he says have led to violence against Black people.
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Holding an hour long press conference starting with showing porn and mentioning my firing I think means you think you are losing...
Like in football, if a team is always playing defense you don't have to look at the score to know who came in with a solid game plan.
Yesterday, we exposed the “book ban” hoax.
If news stations could not show this explicit material on air — why should it be in our schools?
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He started this video by showing my video of empty bookshelves before showing pornography then within 2 minutes of his speech talked about "that guy in Duval who was fired for the video that was a hoax".
@FLFreedomRead
Ron DeSantis recently released a deranged video full of creepy imagery designed to portray opponents of book bans as perverts and deviants.
A big goal of all this is to *deliberately* whip people up into book-ban frenzies that also target political foes:
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@travisakers
Children should not have to learn to hide in closets because adults cannot create a society where weapons of war are not accessible to the mentally unwell.
It is the guns. It is mental health. We have done very little to address either issue for the sake of our kids.
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A lot to unpack about this experience...
I am so thankful that
@RepMaxwellFrost
made sure that the teacher and students of Florida Public Schools were heard.
📚📚BOOK APPROVAL FINANCIALS 🧵
I'm not a lawyer. Just a dad who cannot understand why my children have access to 1.53% of the titles available in January.
As a financial analyst I couldn't understand how HB 1467 didn't go through financial review for public funding, so I read
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These are the people who are willing to raise their hand and say "this is exactly as planned" when it comes to my kids all books removed from classrooms and libraries.
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I am so glad that this stink is sticking with him. Pathetic that nothing has been done to stop the second major disruption of my kids elementary education under
@RonDeSantisFL
BREAKING: John Oliver completely tore apart Ron DeSantis on ‘Last Week Tonight’. While his show was very lengthy, here are my favorite 5 minutes covering DeSantis’ incredibly hypocritical fascism. DeSantis pretends to be all about free speech, anti-cancel culture, and stopping…
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Just a reminder. Travis has more followers on Twitter than Moms 4 Liberty has followers and members NATIONALLY.
They are an over-vocal minority (most without public school students) gifted political capital to harm the institution of public education and minority communities.
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It's always a good day watching Jaguars football with nice weather with one of my favorite people! Let's get this win!
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This isn't political for me but for the teachers and librarians who have inspired my kids to become avid readers and are quietly crying and supporting each other in Duval County. I was in a position to witness the removal of books without the fear of losing my certificate.
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@NateMonroeTU
@Jason_Garcia
Jacksonville allowed them to feel comfortable and now doesn't realize they have become a Nazi bar.
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Provide us with free water so we don't have to sit in the sun like bacon
Plan ahead this gameday.
Designate a sober driver or catch a ride service.
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I wanted to be a good teacher and nice to see they wanted me to stay despite they viral video. Nobody talked to me about it for 3 weeks and I was fired the day after DeSantis was asked about it.
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This is my wife's quilt shoppe. They donated over 500 masks so far!
Coronavirus pandemic: Jacksonville quilt store delivers 200 masks to Brooks Rehabilitation
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I know
@E_Dilla
gives credit to everyone but shout out to having developed a group where we can send someone thousands of dollars off goofin' and knowing it will get to the right place. That's not overnight work
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Just so everyone knows that that a teacher was interviewed by a local media when this went viral and they talked about how the principal was a reading teacher and it was in an article but now has disappeared from the internet.
I will name the station when I find out who it was.
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Oh my goodness. please rt this.
We have a M4L school board member who was at the January 6th Insurrection who was just put on the FL School Board Association legislative committee while being the VP of an opposition conservative school board group.
Moms for liberty school board member who pledged her allegiance to Desantis for his endorsement in 2022 will represent DCPS schools & students next legislative session despite opposition by some community members & colleagues
Maybe this is the concern:
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This is what leadership looks like.
I shot this video one year ago today. Before
@DonnaDeegan
was
@MayorDeegan
. If you follow me you know how that worked out
Today, the library was full of children on a Saturday morning for River City Readers. What a difference a year can make.
Since y'all wanna play the "this isn't really happening" game
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Anyone realize that he never mentions examples for these actions that happen in Florida but says "across the country"?
He is the governor of FLORIDA and he knows this is a blueprint and does not care about the impact his ambitions have on my kids education.
Q: Here in Duval County, we have seen bookshelves in schools empty in response to Florida's new guidelines for boo--
DESANTIS: Actually, you know, that video, that was a fake narrative
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So glad Tim picked that side because this is what that back corner looked like on February 6th in their full library and definitely not storage area.
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Also if you or someone you love has an aquarium you can purchase my product and they will love you for it.
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Tim Robinson is an Orange Park resident who said he served in the Army and the Air Force for two decades.
Robinson questioned DeSantis about policies that allow weapons to get into the hands of “immature, hateful people that had caused the deaths of the people who were murdered”
Florida Gov.
#RonDeSantis
says he should not be connected to the Aug. 26 shooting where a white supremacist visited
#Jacksonville
Clay County and killed three people because they were Black.
@JAXTDY
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@Eve6
@MrChew3131
There is a student who submitted "Beast mode" as their official nickname and teachers and students are complying.
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.
@VivekGRamaswamy
keep my city's name out of your f*cking mouth
Ramaswami implies to Dana Bash that the Jacksonville shooting was caused by the civil rights movement and activists for taking away white privilege and causing anger.
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This is why it's insane that they are trying to control the narrative that this isn't what is happening to my kids.
@JagsFanBrian
@GovRonDeSantis
@DuvalSchools
This is also
@DuvalSchools
' "I was just following orders" statement.
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Cute that they picked a charter school to read books since they have completely ignored the removal of books and reading comprehension resource from Duval County Public Schools
Literacy has always been an issue close to the hearts of First Lady Molly Curry and Mayor
@lennycurry
📖 For Read Across America Day, Ms. Curry spent the morning reading with the kids at Impact Learning Center. Remember - just 20 minutes of reading a day can make a huge impact!
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Remember that Florida legislation is able to find $2B for kids to go to private schools but have dinosaur arms when it comes to supporting public school teachers.
Add that they can't even trust them to provide appropriate books to students.
A new bill in Congress would give US teachers a $60K minimum wage.
Median teacher salary is ~$61K, per the BLS. But some places are worse than others (avg. salaries):
1. Hawaii $47,156
2. Maine $48,968
3. South Dakota $49,713
4. Florida $50,443
5. District of Columbia $50,556
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I will tell you that I'm amazed we were the only ones waiting to meet a 101 year old WWII veteran today! At 7 years old idk he will have another opportunity!
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Cry more.
This was the fulfillment of a campaign promise while you were trying to pass legislation to illegally remove elected officials from office for it.
Hope it's bitterly cold over there on the wrong side of history.
The uniltateral decision to remove the Women of the Southland Memorial at Springfield Park is a stunning abuse of power by
@MayorDeegan
.
This action, undertaken in the middle of the night, during the holidays, without consultation of city leaders or a vote by the council, is…
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They sent more books to be recycled than they have reviewed. This is a modern day book burning. They are being removed without review because
@DuvalSchools
has only reviewed 7% of titles since January - but somehow added 78k titles in the past two weeks.
DCPS have sent about 60 tons of library books to a paper recycling center in GA since FL passed its new book review law last year. That’s almost 2x as many tons as the district sent for recycling the year prior, according to recycling logs.
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This meal just cost me $78 at Newark airport this is why Americans think the economy is terrible
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I am speaking as a dad and the complete removal of books and reading comprehension resource from elementary schools is unacceptable and to treat teachers like they are the boogie man is low.
If this were a legitimate concern then charter schools would be held to equal standards.
Standing ovation for America's Governor,
@RonDeSantisFL
🚨
"I believe parents should be able to send their kids to elementary school without having an agenda jammed down their throats... They should not be teaching a 2nd grader that they can choose their gender. That is wrong."
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Glassdoor says the average salary is $50,216 doe Media specialist in Duval County.
At this pace it will cost this just county $34,988,852 to review all books to a level my kids had a month ago.
I'll keep going until media specialists are back in elementary schools for my kids
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Very confident for a guy who has removed all these books and thinks that reviewing 1.6 million books with 52 media specialists will take no time. Parents aren't complaining about the review. It's the act of removing all books in the middle of the school year
Watch Ron DeSantis angrily gaslight Floridians over Roberto Clemente kids' book pulled from school libraries thanks to book-banning laws HE SIGNED. 🤣
He also blames teacher's unions for book bans--unions play ZERO role in this process. ⬇️
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Our governor carried a poop map in his pocket.
Newsom: Ron has literally the worst mental health system in America. Forgive me outside of Mississippi and Texas..
DeSantis: *hold up feces map*
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Nothing says protecting kids than removing all the books but making sure they have access to guns before they graduate.
Florida Republicans look to reverse post-Parkland school shooting measure, lower limit to buy rifles, long guns via
@jaxdotcom
,
@DouglasSoule
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And this video only tells half the story. At the end of the video they didn't show the approved books available. 99.625% of the books in this video are not accessible to students 3 weeks after 100% removed per district orders.
@jsh_franco
The viral video you are sharing shows less than half the story. Yes, those shelves were empty. But they were in a room full of books. See the video below for the full story.
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Just trying to advocate to change my kids reality. I don't care who wants to take responsibility, I just want reading comprehension back in elementary school resource schedule and permission slips where parents have an opportunity to choose we trust our children's teachers...
Today
@edkrassen
and I interviewed Brian Covey (
@JagsFanBrian
), the Duval County Florida Teacher who was fired for posting a viral video of empty bookshelves at the school he worked at. (The full video can be found here: )
Covey's firing came 24 hours…
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After 16 school days from 100% removal they have a list of 6,000 titles making 99.625% of books in the district inaccessible to students.
This review is being done by removing media guidance resource where librarians work on reading comprehension with elementary students.
.
@TUmarkwoods
cuts through a lot of noise and bad info and gets right to the heart of the matter in this great one -
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I would like to add I do not believe in any banned book list. They are doing the approved book list to avoid it
Like when I asked my son "what would happen if you found a book with the F-word in it?"
"Give it to the teacher and they put it on the shelf where nobody can get it"
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Woke is why my children lost their reading comprehension resource and classroom libraries without a plan in place to complete it in a timely manner
Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) slams Ron DeSantis after the Florida governor visited Chicagoland Monday: "We have a much better system than they do... He's got nothing to brag about when it comes to education. So he uses this word 'woke' to try to describe everything [he doesn't like]."
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And this is after they spent 2 days cleaning up the library after DeSantis was asked about it just for this video as "proof".
At least they removed the table on its side and whiteboard that prevented people from going around the isles.
@PeterSchorschFL
Take a closer look at that video. There’s are tons of empty shelves AND a lot of books opened and standing on shelves. The shelves that were filmed are completely empty. That library looks like it’s missing a lot of books.
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will send anyone with a FL address a banned book for the cost of shipping ($3.99) and $1 goes to
@FLFreedomRead
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For every vacancy there are about 50-150 students impacted.
This is Florida. My niece doesn’t have a biology teacher. Real consequences.
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I went to
@904ward
banned book week event and in my small group was a black child who said that most books in school have mainly white characters and how she loved finding books where she felt she could relate and felt seen. She was in elementary school. Kids feel the impact.
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Know what they don't have to worry about? Dealing with the insurance crisis he created.
100 year old oak tree falls on the Governor’s Mansion in Tallahassee — Mason, Madison, Mamie and I were home at the time, but thankfully no one was injured.
Our prayers are with everyone impacted by the storm.
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