Florida, known for its oranges and being really bad at educating its children, is having a totally normal time with student permission slips. Last time they made headlines for firing a teacher over a permission slip to see fine art. This time they decided to bring the art to the room.
From NBC News:
A Florida school district is drawing fire for asking parents to consent to having their children participate in the reading of an African American author’s book to comply with state law.
We all know the POSIWID approach to the Stop WOKE Act is to pretend people who don’t fall in the same demographics as Toby Keith have no history, but if you want to keep up the facade that it is actually about parents having the right to make informed decisions about their children’s education, you have to at least give better context than this. An African American author? Which? Is it Frank Wilderson reading excerpts from “The Prison Slave As Hegemony’s Silent Scandal” or Thomas Sowell reading “Social Justice Fallacies”? Being Florida, it’s probably the latter, despite Florida being one of the largest sites for unpaid prison labor camps. The permission slip may as well have said “I don’t really have a lesson plan, but one of my brave/smart/wacky Black friends has something nice to say at show and tell. Sound cool?”
Call me cynical, but I hope that this trend continues. Send the kids home with a permission slip telling parents that some white guy you routinely point and laugh at with no chance in hell of winning the presidency wants to talk about a big election and have them wonder if the school means Ron DeSantis or Carrot Top.
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
