Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools

> Appropriate for the grade level and age group for which the materials are used or made available

If I was in grade school when this happened, this would have hampered my ability to learn. I was generally reading above the standard level and loved reading in class.

Reading this post just makes me sad. Kids aren't getting the same opportunities I got to nurture my curiosity.

The same people who oppose freedom of speech are over here supporting DeSantis and his crusade against education and his push for bigger government.

Prepare for “route around the damage” moment where districts are going to start requiring teachers to get media specialist certified just to avoid the legal headache.

I am not a lawyer, but the fact that it is a felony seems particularly aggressive to me. Usually stuff like this (related to how a school is run) is usually administrative law and the school district would be the one responsible for insuring that it is enforced (so they might fire a teacher for non-compliance, but it would be the district itself being taken to administrative court by the state government for not following the law, rather than a specific teacher). This is also just bad in general, but the fact that the law criminally targets teachers rather than being put into the boring administrative code just shows how politically and ideologically motivated this is.