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    1 year ago

    While this would make a big statement, the real victims would be innocent teenagers. Arguably we should be doing the opposite and trying to get as many of them out of that state as possible.

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      I don’t understand why the education curriculum is not set at a federal level. It’s not like 2+2 ever equals 14, no matter what state your from.

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        It might be preferable in the current political climate, but think about what might have happened if this was the case 5 years ago.

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      Meh. If it doesn’t directly impact them or their families, conservatives won’t give a shit. So I say make it very real for them, and make it clear their children are learning a version of history that significantly undermines their academic and professional careers. Harvard doesn’t owe them shit, and Karen McBurnaBook won’t pay attention to a word you say until little Annie can’t get into college and has to take remedial classes at the community college to qualify for an out-of-state 4-year institution. Maybe that way Annie will be forced to stand up to her parents’ bullshit antics when they show up at the school board meeting to call everyone a pedophile.

      You want to make an omelet? Gotta break some eggs, unfortunately.

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          What part of my comment makes you think I’m complaining about the ideology of children?

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            Why would you restrict the opportunities of children then? That fucks them over more than the parents, and speaking of which, there are also many non-conservative parents in Florida.

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              By not allowing them to receive the basic education requirements to attend college level classes their parents are the ones fucking them over, this would just be a consequence of that…

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                Most of our parents don’t have anything to do with Ron DeSantis’s laws, we just live here.

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              Omelet. Eggs.

              Furthermore, one of the top reasons for people to move to or away from somewhere is the quality of a school district. Families can (and do) make life-altering decisions based on where their children will get the kind of education that gives them an advantage in life. If Florida has decided it’s ok with the collateral damage to children’s future that comes with hitching their wagon to culture war issues, then I’m ok with collateral damage to show them how fucked up that is. Sucks those innocent kids have to go through this, but right now it’s either a) attend shitty FL high school and still get into college, b) attend shitty FL high school and don’t get into college, or c) don’t attend shitty FL high school. I’m not super keen on letting their kids benefit from their shittiness, but I’m also not in charge of college admissions.

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                I really enjoy how everyone on this platform circlejerks about helping the poor and then advocates fucking over kids who’s parents can’t afford to leave Florida

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                  I listed very clear options for people in Florida. You didn’t refute or correct them, you just changed the subject to appeal to some kind of guilt, which is telling.

                  I. Don’t. Care. Florida citizens are very clearly and consistently voting people into office who support this bullshit. Until it bites them in the ass, they will continue to vote that way, because they have their cake and can eat it, too. It’s not my job to protect them from the pain either a) they’re inflicting upon themselves, or b) their neighbors are inflicting upon them.

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                    A large section of Floridians do not vote for Ron Desantis and are subject to things like gerrymandering which prevent their votes from mattering in the first place. Most of the people who do vote for these policies are people who place no value whatsoever on education in the first place. Your policy would end up fucking over an entire state based on the actions of a minority of its residents.

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                  I really enjoy how people like you feel self-important while doing nothing but complaining.

                  You want to help the kids? Overturn or undermine Desantis’s fucked up policies now, while those kids you’re parading around have a chance. Set up tutoring servers on Discord. Set up online libraries full of banned books and spread the links everywhere. Be the change you want to see in the world. But don’t you dare complain about institutions enforcing basic education standards on its students.

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                    Institutions rejecting me because I got my diploma from Florida is a direct threat to my future. It’s not possible for me to do anything about Ron DeSantis other than vote and encourage other people to vote, all of what you’re suggesting involves time and effort which I don’t have and can’t give.

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      While this would make a big statement, the real victims would be innocent teenagers.

      This part was true. There’s no action that we can take to save them from shit parents if they support this nonsense.