Ep. 750 - Teachers all over Florida have been told to remove or cover all of their books or risk being arrested and charged with felonies
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
And it's not just a horrible sign of things to come, it's a horrible sign of where Florida already is. I am now seeing pictures of school libraries and classroom libraries all over the state with nothing but empty shelves. Students and teachers and parents are devastated. And it's scary on a deep level because it feels to them like they are now a part of an authoritarian regime. And in effect they are.
Let me unpack and explain it.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know if you've seen the videos or images of classrooms all over Florida, |
| 0:07.0 | in elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, from the top to the bottom, |
| 0:13.0 | that have had to remove all of their books or at the very least cover them all up. |
| 0:20.0 | It's been a devastating reality for teachers and students who are crying, |
| 0:27.0 | saying I never thought I would be in a classroom that no longer had books. |
| 0:34.0 | Many of these classroom libraries, I know because I'm married to a teacher. |
| 0:38.0 | My wife was a teacher for 20 years. |
| 0:41.0 | Many of those classroom libraries are built by the teachers just for the students. |
| 0:46.0 | And I now literally see all over the state, empty shelves, empty libraries, |
| 0:52.0 | and devastated students and teachers. |
| 0:56.0 | And I think this is a very scary problem that we're facing. |
| 1:01.0 | And I don't quite think that we really understand the magnitude of it all. |
| 1:07.0 | Let's talk about it. |
| 1:09.0 | Let me unpack and explain it. |
| 1:10.0 | This is Sean King, and you're listening to The Breakdown. |
| 1:15.0 | The Breakdown. |
| 1:18.0 | The Breakdown. |
| 1:20.0 | The Breakdown. |
| 1:32.0 | For the past few weeks, I've gotten emails from students, from parents, |
| 1:40.0 | from teachers and administrators saying, Sean, I don't think the public understands |
| 1:46.0 | what's happening here in our classrooms. |
| 1:49.0 | And one of the things that I've been asking parents and students and teachers to send me |
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