Florida has been busy with this cultural stuff; I don’t think these issues are that important to most voters. The economy, crime, health care, jobs, inflation, climate change, immigration etc. are the major issues. To most, I think these are side issues unless one is a die-hard ideologue on one side or the other. I can agree that any type of sex education shouldn’t be taught to kids in K-8th grade.
In 2020 there were 1,765 US females UNDER the age of 15 who got pregnant 0.0005% of the US population). There were also 38,578 US females 15 to 17 (0.0115%) who got pregnant and another 158,043 (0.0470%) between the aged 18 or 19 who got pregnant.
That's a grand total of 0.059%
Obviously there is absolutely no need for any sex education in American schools whatsoever since the number of US females 19 or younger who got pregnant is such a small percentage of the American population. Right?
To me those kids are too young. They have in all this other stuff gone too far, overboard.
Pushed your "comfort zone" did they?
School Vouchers has been a hot topic for decades now, that is another I understand. Letting parents have the ability to get their kids from poorer schools to better schools make sense to me.
Yep, and when you take the 500 kids from the poorer (read as "mostly 'Black' students) and ship them off to the "better school" that has an enrollment of 500, those 1,000 kids are all going to get the same quality of education as the 500 that had previously gone to the "better school" because the taxpayers are going to joyfully pony up the several millions of dollars to design and construct (on a "crash priority" basis) the additional facilities that the "better school" will have to have to accommodate the extra 500 students. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee they are.
We used to have race relations classes when I was in the army, it’s called something else today.
It's commonly referred to as "Diversity Training".
But something like that for High School kids, perhaps Junior High depending which could include trans-genders.
Unfortunately, if you want to do that, you have to actually teach the reality of the history as well as the reality of contemporary society and doing that isn't allowed (where it is most needed) because it's "woke".
What I found is kids being kids go out and play with each other regardless of race and have loads of fun when young. This hatred of different races must be taught at some time during a kids growing up period. A learned trait.
Indeed, but you aren't allowed to teach that because that would be "woke" and might make the people who are teaching the kids that other kids are inferior because of some quirk of genetics feel bad about themselves.
How will all this culture war stuff play if DeSantis enters the presidential race? It may help him in the Republican primaries. I don’t think it will be an asset to him in the general election, quite the opposite.
Well, it will give the members of "Claque Failed Casino Operator" someone to vote for - won't it?
But that the main, normal issues like inflation, crime, the economy, jobs, healthcare etc. will probably override the cultural stuff as it usually does.
Not if those who want to see a reactionary and "fundamentalist theocratic" America have anything to do with it.
I’ve found out over the years that those who vote on cultural issues one way or the other have been die hard voters for one party or the other for decades. It’s the main issues and how the country along with one’s own personal life are doing that will decide how swing voters vote.
Most of those "swing voters" belong to the category that was known (where I choose to live) as "30 Second Socreds". Those were the people who moaned and griped about "Da Gummint" for 31,557,550 seconds out of the year, and then marked their ballots to keep the same party that had been the giverning party as the governing party in the 30 seconds left over.
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