FL Dems back planned student walkout on Friday to protest education restrictions
Students from more than 300 high schools and colleges in Florida plan to participate in a mass walkout at noon Friday to protest bills restricting the LGBTQ+ community and education policies in Florida.
“This is not a single-day revolution and this is not a spontaneous attack,” said Zander Moricz, a 19-year-old student activist who is helping to coordinate what is being called the “Walkout 2 Learn” event.
Moricz kicked off a press conference announcing the event in the Fourth Floor Rotunda at the Capitol in Tallahassee Thursday. It took place a day after the Florida’s Board of Education expanded last year’s “Don’t Say Gay” law (officially called Parental Rights in Education) to prohibit discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity through the twelfth grade.
Last year’s bill banned such discussions from kindergarten through the third grade.
“We cannot keep ignoring young people,” Moricz said. “A year ago, hundreds of students told you that this would happen. We told you that and yesterday we were proven right.”
Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. played down the expansion of the law on Wednesday, telling the Associated Press, “We’re not removing anything here. All we are doing is, we are setting the expectations so our teachers are clear that they are to teach to the standards.”
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