Gov. DeSantis: ‘When Parents Send Their Kids to School, It’s for Education, Not Indoctrination’

‘Even Harvard admitted, Florida, we’ve seen no widening of any achievement gaps between rich/poor, black/white, because we’ve actually had kids in school’

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DESANTIS: “And if you look also in terms of education, these lockdown states that — the unions locked these kids out of school. They didn’t want them in class, and the result has been huge learning losses, unprecedented learning losses, but even Harvard admitted, Florida, we’ve seen no widening of any achievement gaps between rich, poor, black, white, because we actually had kids in school. And so, that’s going to have a huge impact, negative in these other states, and we will have mitigated a lot of the damage by having it here in Florida. And you can’t put a price tag on that.

(Applause)

You can’t put a price tag on opportunity for kids and making sure parents have the ability and, of course, separate from the budget, we believe that when parents send their kids to school, it’s for education, not for indoctrination. We’re going to hold that line in Florida.”

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