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Towlie

(5,324 posts)
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 08:55 AM Oct 2021

Why is the Florida Board of Education populated with low-life child-murdering scumbags?

Wouldn't it make more sense to have a board that actually cares about the life and welfare of children (that is, after they're born)?

Florida Board of Education votes to sanction 8 school districts with mask mandates with no opt-out

The Florida Board of Education on Thursday voted to sanction eight school districts that have instituted Covid-19 mask mandates without giving parents the ability to opt their students out.

In doing so, the state board said that school districts in Alachua, Brevard, Broward, Duval, Leon, Miami-Dade, Orange and Palm Beach counties were not in compliance and directly violating a Florida Department of Health emergency rule.

And here's the especially heinous part:

As a penalty, Florida Board of Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran has requested that funds for each district be withheld "in an amount equal to 1/12 of all school board members' salaries," in addition to withholding any amount equal to federal grant funds awarded to those districts by President Joe Biden's administration.

That last provision amounts to intercepting money meant to go directly to school districts and diverting it to the state's coffer. It's more than just a "penalty", it's overt embezzlement of federal funds.
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Why is the Florida Board of Education populated with low-life child-murdering scumbags? (Original Post) Towlie Oct 2021 OP
It's Republican. That's what leftyladyfrommo Oct 2021 #1
Republicans have installed henchmen to carry out the local Herr's edicts. Alexander Of Assyria Oct 2021 #2
 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
2. Republicans have installed henchmen to carry out the local Herr's edicts.
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 09:37 AM
Oct 2021

Florida is becoming the second statewide incubator in how to do fascism in the whole of America, the first being Wisconsin years back.

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