Florida Governor Ron DeSantis showed graphic images from woke children’s books during his debate on Thursday night with California Governor Gavin Newsom.
The moment came after Newsom was trying to defend his record on parental rights during the Fox News debate in Georgia.
DeSantis said that the materials that children are shown in schools needed to be “age appropriate.”
“The role of the school is to educate kids, not indoctrinate kids,” DeSantis said. “It’s not to impose an agenda. It’s to do the basics. And what we’ve said in Florida is it’s inappropriate to tell a kindergartener that their gender is a choice, it’s inappropriate to tell a second grader that they may have been born in the wrong body.”
“Now California has that, they want to have that injected into the elementary school, my wife and I have a seven, five and a three year old, but we don’t think that that’s appropriate. I know most parents do not think it’s appropriate. It’s also important to respect parental rights to know what curriculum is being used in the classroom, and everything should be age appropriate.”
“So this is a book that’s in some of the schools in California,” DeSantis added. “In Florida, this is not consistent with our standards called, ‘Gender Queer’. It’s some of it’s blacked out. You would not probably be able to put this on air. This is pornography. It’s cartoons. It’s aimed at children and it’s wrong. So this should not be in schools when people like on the left say that is not age appropriate.”
WATCH:
DeSantis highlights the smut in woke children’s books that Newsom supports children being indoctrinated with. pic.twitter.com/UFbcyuQPgD
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