Florida Governor Ron DeSantis delivered a statement about the future of Florida today while visiting Cape Coral on the Southwest coast. During his remarks, the governor highlighted his support for parent’s rights, taking the position that parents should be the ones making decisions for their children on masks, schools and vaccines, not government.
Governor DeSantis promised Florida residents there will be no lockdowns, no mandates, no restrictions and no school closures. Additionally, the governor urged all local communities to follow common sense science and said he will soon issue an order allowing parents or guardians to choose whether their child wears a mask in schools.
“As of today, very few [school districts] are requiring it. Nevertheless, we have a lot of push from the CDC and others to make every single person, kids and staff have to wear masks all day,” DeSantis said during the event. “That would be a huge mistake.” WATCH:
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The Florida Education Association (FEA), the largest teacher union in the state, said they will fight the Florida governor on all measures. The teachers union is considering not going back to work with in-person teaching, and has vowed not to give up control of the (k-12) children to the parents. “Governor DeSantis continues to think that Tallahassee knows best what all Floridians need,” FEA President Andrew Spar said in a statement. “We reject that kind of thinking” Spar continued.
“Instead, we ask Governor DeSantis to allow all Florida’s citizens to have a voice by empowering the elected leaders of cities, counties and school districts to make health and safety decisions locally based on their unique needs and circumstances,” Spar said. Emphasizing how the union feels they have more power in the blue and leftist urban area, and they have vowed to fight any conservative effort in the state to undermine the teachers financial interests and control over Florida students.
I wish I could move back to Florida.
Just do it.
The judicial system holds my children hostage. I can’t leave without abandoning them.
It’s not as easy for some people to “just do it.”
Honestly? Go full bore on charter schools and schools vouchers / tax credits. The only way to get rid of the cancer of teachers’ unions is to use the flamethrower. They have worn out their welcome.
Think Reagan firing the Air Traffic Controllers.
I posted the same thing and then read yours! We think alike.
I was living in Pakistan at the time and it was a big deal for many to see an American president do such a thing.
Brian, I totally agree. They have become swamp creatures themselves. Just another brick in the wall…
if DeSantis did that he could break the teachers union in Florida.
and never too soon!
Parents not enrolling their children this next year would do the same.
BRING THEM TO THEIR KNEES.
You are dead on!! I’ve said this for decades. We need to start a grass root movement. This would go a long way to addressing a multitude of issues
Vouchers were a big factor in electing him over the black Democrat candidate. Lots of black voters for vouchers.
Not very difficult to imagine the state of the State of Florida under Andy Gillum.
It would look like DC under Gollem. spelled wrong intentionally.
Smart black voters.
The charters have been “following cdc guidance” too because the State has the power to revoke charters.
DeSantis could throw down the gauntlet by passing and signing legislation directing that “the money follows the child”. If the child is enrolled in home school, the money that ordinarily would go to the District goes to the parents instead. Parents could then use it to pay for an in-home teacher, a private company (there are some great private companies that offer excellent math/reading instruction). Or, parents could pool their money to hire their own teachers.
Reducing the public schools by 50% would ruin the unions.
Excellent idea, Hokkoda
If I may?
Brilliant, as all simple solutions are to “complex” problems.
Indeed. Parents I know who’ve home schooled their kids are so frustrated with this very thing because they’re paying taxes that go to schools yet get no financial reimbursement for home school their kids. Every parent who home schools their children should get that money back for each child they teach at home.
Hokkoda Sir, A Bright Light, Have You!
Outstanding.
I’ve said for a long time that the money needs to be attached to the student so that parents could pull their students out of failing schools. I think you’d see schools improve quickly.
My brother lives in Tampa, a victim of TDS.
Im so, so jealous.
He enjoys the benefits of a rational Governor.
Me, hiding out out in a Chiraq suburb.
Much, much safer here.
I fled Illinois in retirement five years ago, landing in gorgeous western NC, where I niw find the jerk governor is a tyrant. Out of the frying pan …
Kinda sorta the same story in your neighboring NE GA mountain counties. We’re under the thumb of “Day Late Dollar Short” Kemp and Brad “Dominion” Refuseburger … with Tank Abrams a’rumblim’ in the wings of the state house.
I feel your pain @Cisco. I lived in NC for 35 years (western NC for 7 years) and loved it, but simply could not abide by the tyrant governor’s dictates anymore. I finally made the decision to move to Florida, as have thousands of others. Hope you can flee, as well.
The NC Governor used the same fraud system to get himself re-elcted as GA, PA, AZ, and others used to fraud Xiden into office. It is literally impossible that the current resident of the governors mansion was re-elected. Satan himself would have beaten him. He was the most hated man in the state. I’m in WNC, have lots of contacts in the Demoncrat center of the state, and even quite a few in eastern NC. NOBODY liked Cooper! NOBODY! Even the most hardcore generational Democrats hated him. Everyone that I’ve talked to, Demoncrat or Rethugligan, is convinced that horrific cheating is the only way he was re-elected!
I despise teachers’ unions whether local or national. They have shown their true colors during the pandemic with their lack of concern for children and their disdain for parents. Public education has failed our children miserably by making them political pawns. And, I was a public schools educator for 30 years in Maryland, no less. I know about what I speak.
My wife homeschooled 2 daughters while running a business.
Tough. But it can be done.
G-d bless you and your wife. And I think you hit the nail on the head when you said it was “tough.” I can only imagine. You both walked the walk and until more on our side are willing to do that, our chances of overcoming this nightmare are so much less. In my view, that also applies to having families. Large families. Where children are raised with strong values. Yes, it takes enormous sacrifice, but that’s one critical way of being on the front lines. Again, G-d bless you and your wife for stepping up to the plate. My hat’s off to you both.
Thank you, Sarah. But I can’t take any credit for this, my wife did it all on her on, before we met.
I got lucky when I met her, and ain’t letting her get away!
Please, keep talking and exposing them.
Maybe better legal minds than mine could comment, but couldn’t DeSantis fire any teachers that defies state law?
Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers when they thought they had the nation by the you-know-what.
That sticks in my mind as the model to follow.
So could DeSantis deploy in the national guard to teach the kids? Probably better teachers than the one’s we’ve got.
Ironically enough, most are probably better educated too.
I would say STEM degrees are not that uncommon.
We could also use an executive order that dismantles the federal civil service…
Reagan was able to fire them because they were not legally able to strike. I don’t know if the Florida teachers have such a restriction in their contract.
Florida Statutes 447.505 – Strikes prohibited
I new I could rely on our readers for this. Thank you Guyski.
Treepers Rock!
But that would depend on how “strikes” is defined. A collective “sickout” could occur.
Wouldn’t bind DeSantis to buying their ruse.
From the satute:
Strike: means the concerted failure of employees to report for duty; the concerted absence of employees from their positions; the concerted stoppage of work by employees; the concerted submission of resignations by employees; the concerted abstinence in whole or in part by any group of employees from the full and faithful performance of the duties of employment with a public employer for the purpose of inducing, influencing, condoning, or coercing a change in the terms and conditions of employment or the rights, privileges, or obligations of public employment, or participating in a deliberate and concerted course of conduct which adversely affects the services of the public employer; the concerted failure of employees to report for work after the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement; and picketing in furtherance of a work stoppage.
And they all probably have months of sick days stockpiled.
Joey: Gov. Desantis, could you…”
Gov. D: NO! NO! NO! NO!…. Now don’t you have something the eat off of your face?
At this point, with the knowledge now vaccinated people can potentially be super spreaders, all interstate travel by air or ground, require the vaccinated to quarantine 14 days upon arrival into your state. Turnabout is fair play, so require proof of negative covid test within the last 48 hours too before leaving quarantine.
Can’t be to careful after all…
Yup. If it saves one life.
The left loves mandates when they use them to boss us around but don’t like them when they result in freedom.
Such a bunch of bizarre, dysfunctional, hall-monitor rejects. Moonbats all.
Moonbats? More like vampire bats, sucking the life blood out if everything they see.
Wuhanbats!
“The teachers union is considering not going back to work with in-person teaching”
Fire them all. Hire competent teachers. Note: A Teaching Certificate, like membership in a teachers’ union, does not make a teacher competent.
Best thing that could happen to the kids.
Amen! I taught middle school in SC for 40 years, and I saw some sorry “teachers” along the way. Getting rid of them was next to impossible. I never wanted to become a principal because I would be held accountable for some of the decisions those jackass incompetent “teachers” would make, and I wouldn’t be able to kick their @$$#! out the door. It was infuriating to see them in action and not be held accountable for their incompetence. I say let us “old school” educators take the reigns to right this ship.
The bureaucrats who have never set a foot in the classroom and wouldn’t survive doing so are calling the shots in most school districts. I have always encouraged parents to get involved in their children’s learning to offset the garbage curriculum that has been pushed. I could go on for a lengthy amount of time to share events I have witnessed that would make one’s blood boil.
Please by all means lead the way. We need this to happen. Many old school teachers feel the same way.
Governor DeSantis should fire every teacher who won’t go back to school if the union tells them. Do a Ronald Reagan on them like he did to the Air Traffic Controllers.
The left is trying to target Florida and Texas like they did a year ago.
Bring it.
Imo, that’s where the illegals are being dumped
He’s one helluva solid man!! He’s an unapologetic alpha male, rather than some neutered coward carrying the water for their pimps
Mask Disclaimers state, “ Will NOT Stop the Inhalation of Viruses “. Pretty clear they don’t work for Viruses. They do say, for Dust, Pollen, Smoke and other Particles.
I am glad I am moving to Florida next week!
Can I catch a ride with you?
I’m so glad I just moved to Florida … a few weeks ago … people are so nice.
I went to the Tax Collectors office this week and saw maybe 8 masks out of about 70 people in the room where they were helping us transfer our DL and Vehicle Registration to Florida.
We need conservatives here.
Congratulations
Recall the Black Plague and Spanish Influenza. Seems government didn’t stick their noses in peoples health status. They just removed the dead and kept working.
Up vote as a big Monty Python fan, also true.
During the Hong Kong flu (which I had) they allowed Woodstock and sent men to the moon and back.
“Bring out your dumb!”
De Santis shows how it’s done. And it’s not rocket science. Yet he stands alone while all other GOP governors appear to have no clue.
Not just most GOP governors. Most GOPe senators, representatives, and committee chairs are equally useless. Consuming valuable oxygen, drinking scarce fresh water. Eating food that should go to hungry migrants – AOC cannot feed ’em all.
True on all points. But please don’t forget that AOC is spread thin, what with having to take care of her Abuela. Cut her some slack.
In Britain and Canada, the minority party is officially called “Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition”; the key word is loyal.
Respecting the democratic process, and the outcome of elections, is a liberal concept. The Democrats are no longer liberals, they are leftists, and only power is respected. Notice how obsequious the news media is to Democrats who have achieved power. The revolution is only energized by losing an election.
RINOs who talk compromise morning, noon and night are our enemies. The struggle is about power, and leftists/Democrats only understand winning or losing.
Extreme Federalism.
It’s growing, and is the real resistance.
Forget the D.C. politicians.
I know Fl. being a right to work state makes Teachers unions fairly weak and working for the school district in Manatee County for 12 years as a member of AFSME it is much different here then in those big D cities. Wages for teachers and all other workers are on the low side and firing people is not all that difficult. Have a niece in NJ who after 5 years as an elementary teacher makes 80 k plus. Fl is closer to 40k
Marc, here is how you solve your problem, move back to,
“Have a niece in NJ who after 5 years as an elementary teacher makes 80 k plus. Fl is closer to 40k”
Just about sums it up,
“12 years as a member of AFSME”
In Central Texas next to Austin O had a man at the door demand I put a mask on , he worked there, said, “The CDC came out today, you must”
I thanked him took the mask and never put it on
However, 90 percent of the people did, OH, there were several families of illegals clearly with 8-9 kids each
They didn’t have masks on but they are illegals and spreading China flu like crazy so they don’t count
This man, Desantis, is dangerous…to totalitarians.
The FEA lost the last time when they tried to keep the schools closed, and they’ll lose again if they wish to go against the Best. Governor. Ever. The governor has data at his fingertips from the entire 2020-2021 Florida school year that shows no statistical difference in infections whether masked or not. Plus the Delta variant is less deadly than the Alpha version, a fact that DeSantis tweeted out recently. Based on those two things the NEA can’t win, though they’ll almost certainly try.
WAIT, JUST ONE EFF’EN SECOND! Say what?
(FEA), the largest teacher union in the state, said they will fight the Florida governor on all measures. The teachers union is considering not going back to work with in-person teaching, “and has vowed not to give up control of the (k-12) children to the parents. “
See, control of my children?
Control?
They are on a slippery & dangerous slope.
The point of no return.
Vowed?
How about parents vow not to return their children to abusive bureaucrats.
You want to be funded as a teacher? Work WITH families not against them
“Governor DeSantis continues to think that Tallahassee knows best what all Floridians need,”
When everyone knows that the unelected teachers’ union knows best what all Floridians need! /sarc
“Governor DeSantis continues to think that Tallahassee knows best what all Floridians need,” FEA President Andrew Spar said in a statement. “We reject that kind of thinking” Spar continued, “Because deciding what is best for Floridisns is the EXCLUSIVE RIGHT OF THE TEACHERS UNION.”
FIFY Comrade Spar.
Now he needs to roll out early treatment protocols.
an in-depth (3-hour) dive in the treatment protocols direction?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-save-the-world-in-three-easy-steps/id1471581521?i=1000525032595
DeSantis probably can’t risk that — but parents and citizens can spread the word.
Print up the early treatment protocols and distribute discreetly. Mail discreetly to doctors and pharmacies, schools and politicians. Raise awareness
It’s not a risk, it’s a path to get us out of this mess. Early treatment saves lives. This is not about a single medication. There are a host of early protocols that reduce hospitalizations and death that are being suppressed. There is no way to lose. Any reduction in death rates over useless NPI’s would be a deathblow to the whole charade.
Sundance,
Thank you for posting some good news.
I know it’s hard to find it sometimes and we need to hear the good and the bad.
P.S. After reading your post about the house infrastructure bill and the let our country burn comments from your readers I was feeling surrounded by quitters.
Governor DeSantis (R) is fighting back and that’s the attitude I support.
Let’s hear all the red state governors taking this stand and refuse any further lockdowns or mask mandates.
Let common sense prevail …
1. If you’re sick, stay home.
2. If you’re sick and must go out in public, wear a mask.
3. If you’re healthy, masks aren’t needed (and they won’t keep you from catching any bug).
4. If you catch a bug, then go back to #1.
Florida May be in danger . The Bush Cabal are plotting and planning . Mayor Francis Suarez of recent Fox News fame is now circulating a flyer among the young republicans to form a new Post Trump GoP party to Dump Trump .
So the Never-MAGAs can out themselves?
Cool.
link?
Better get an Audit going or De Santis might be the last decent Governor in Florida ever.
That article Sundance quoted is full on bakassward. Empower the voice of the people by letting officials speak for them??!!
Commie Speak
Fire all the teachers hire long term substitutes. QED
If it weren’t for the humidity I’d move there. Maybe I could put up with the humidity, actually.
And then there are the bugs. Lots of ’em. And they’re pretty big.
Was told that the bugs are repelled by baskets of a particular citrus that monster waterbugs don’t like. Is this true Floridians?
I’d rather put up with bugs than the rotten blue state policies.
There are so many things now people are becoming aware….part of the plan. This is not good for the; UniParty politicians, Deep State bureaucrats, Democrats and Big Corporations. “Exposure” is the weapon right now and it has the “Bad People” in desperate panic.
The next several months will determine Freedom or Totalitarianism.
“The teachers union is considering not going back to work with in-person teaching, and has vowed not to give up control of the (k-12) children to the parents.” Read that again and think about what it says.
It is time to decertify the teachers’ union or unions and eliminate them from public schools. Unions do not overrule parents when it comes to the parents’ children and it is past time for the parents to take control.
The FEA is concerned about control and financial interests and not much of anything else. My father, a teacher for 30 years would be appalled.
I had some of the best primary school teachers who ever lived, and cherish their memories.
This is not against teachers. It is against upside down priorities with disturbed people who somehow got too much power that went to their heads.
Hey Mister FEA President: You sure as snap do not know what parents need. Your main issue (as with your colleagues in other states) is financial: Teachers’ salaries, teachers’ pensions, teachers’ healthcare benefits. The Big Guy over the NEA stated, on camera a few years back, that none of what you do is about children or (God forbid) parents. s a result, I await federal Department of Education penalties for Florida’s noncompliance with mask and vaxx fascism. How dare anyone put childrens’ needs first – one such as DeSantis must never rise up again.
Make America Florida!
DeSantis should take a tip from President Reagan and fire all the teachers and hire new ones if they refuse to come to work.
Remember when President Reagan did that in his first term with the aircraft traffic controllers? Everybody loved it! That cemented his popularity.
Larry Elder for Governor of California
California has a huge Governor recall election coming up in mid September. Wether you are a democrat or a republican, everyone must be convinced to vote for Larry Elder.
Larry Elder will manage the Covid crisis in California much better than the current governor as he won’t be needlessly closing down businesses and crushing the middle class.
He will also follow the real science and not the political science when it comes to masks, vaccine passports, and other mandates.
We have all seen what a difference a Governor can make with regards to vaccine passports in Florida. These vaccine passports can be blocked by a Governor and we need that here done here in California.
Save yourself, save the California, and ask everyone you know who lives in California to please vote for Larry Elder.
I know many of you have written off California but there are many of us here that need to be saved. Help us to get this message out.
Absolutely doing my part. I think it’s critical that every single patriot exert influence over those in their sphere of potential influence. This is one very important issue that is front and center.
Mr Todd,besides being off topic, here is the biggest problem you have in CA, your mindset, there is no crisis,
“Larry Elder will manage the Covid crisis in California”
Larry Elder is a great man… I live on the East Coast, can’t vote for him but donated to him! I agree, we need to save Cali from themselves!
Even the Low-Information people are beginning to question, “Do I want this”?
The Democrats are running full push desperation ads. However, the people are not buying it. California is a car State and they are reminded the result of Biden at the gas pump every time they fill their car tank.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1421158804998209543
Is there really a Delta Variant or is it that the Vaccine just doesn’t work so if you have no protection and a weak natural immune system, then you can get the virus, no different than the flu.
But if 75% of those getting infected are vaccinated then maybe, just maybe there is something in the vaccine or how it works that promotes your body to be more susceptible?
Could that be possible?
ABSOLUTELY just listen to both Dr. Malone and Dr. McCoullough. They call it ADE
ANTIBODY DEPENDENT ENHANCEMENT IS WHY THE VACCINATED ARE GETTING COVID AND THEY DON’T BELIEVE IT IS A NEW VARIANT AT ALL.
And if your loved ones were snookered into the deadly shots, please read up on what has been helping others.
Ron DeSantis is the best Governor all state use,
Thank goodness Abbott is up for reelection so he may be forced to make the same move. It’s a hit or miss with him.
Lots of RINOs in TX.
https://www.kusi.com/let-them-breathe-attorney-says-majority-of-parents-want-kids-to-be-maskless-in-school/
This video is about the “Let them breathe “ lawsuits in California, A local news show with a ton of common sense and good questions .
This will affect all of California and they are using science to convince a judge to stop the mask madness in our schools.
Good moves Mr. Future President Desantis (assuming you can get past the voter fraud in other battleground states, let alone Florida unless you ban all voting machines there).
Now is also the time to launch a scorched-Earth, forensic audit of the 2020 election in Florida. Not to overturn the election (because we know that President Trump won Florida, even with the fraud), but to identify the bad actors and their methods to reinforce the momentum for other states considering audits and to give greater credibility to the forthcoming blockbuster results of the Arizona audit. I don’t want to hear about 2022 or 2024, I want to fix 2020, otherwise every two-year cycle after 2020 will be irrelevant once the voter fraud is institutionalized across the country. 2020 is the Pearl Harbor of our age, it is the hill to die on. And, once you see the scale of voter fraud in Florida (but not enough to stop the Trump Tsunami of 2020), then BAN ALL VOTING MACHINES IN FLORIDA. If they can ban voting machines in Germany, you can do it in Florida.
Keep hope alive. The great American Revival is coming and within reach!
Yes ditto
Well then, watch for severe weather events / hurricanes (geoengineeringwatch.com) and possible additional regional unrest – sneaky migrant drop offs, Cuba, etc.
The virus isn’t the only hoax out there, and the globalists won’t let this go without a response.
Any teacher not returning to school should be fired immediately.
Do like Regan did. Every teacher that will not return to school under the Governor’s policies will be terminated on Day 1.
To hell with them and their damn union.
“We are the teachers. You are merely the parents! HOW DARE YOU try to defy the teachers, as they dictate to you what must be done with regards to your children? Who the hell do you think you are?” ?
Fire all the FL teachers and rehire those who follow the US Constitution.??♀️
Hire ones that actually teach reading, REAL history, & math.
God Bless this man.