This year, back to school season feels kind of sad for Anita Carson.

This week is really the first time that it's hitting me that I'm not going to be in a classroom

again.

Anita taught sixth grade for seven years.

She quit this summer.

And that's a little bit heartbreaking for me because I love teaching.

I love my students and so it was really hard to leave.

It's not like Anita was planning to change careers.

It's just that she had been teaching in Polk County, Florida.

And the way Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislature worked hand in hand to up end

the public school curriculum last year.

I felt like too much.

After that don't say gay bell passed, parents started questioning Anita's judgment.

Like when she sent an email to the families of kids she taught, saying something totally

banal, like tell your kid to check if they've gotten me missing assignments.

And I had sent out basically those words using they as a common placeholder for pronouns

because I'm not going to write each individual parent.

I'm just going to send out, please make sure that your student has they need to make

sure.

And I got a text back from my mom saying you're not allowed to use that pronoun crap anymore.

Then, this mom reported Anita to her principal.

So we have now empowered parents that have extreme views about what's acceptable in schools

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