A school in the Miami-Dade County School District has come under fire when its attempt to comply with Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’s snowflake-y law demanding explicit parental permission for their child to participate in a controversial lesson. The lesson in this case? According to NBC News, a “read aloud” of a book by an African-American author.
“Students will participate and listen to a book written by an African American,” the permission slip from a teacher at Coral Ray Elementary in Miami stated as the description of the activity. The slip does not name the author, the book, or the subject of the event.
“My daughter didn’t even mention it to me. She didn’t want me to sign it because she thought it would be boring,” Charles Walter, a parent whose child received the slip, said, adding, “The idea that kids can have a say in what activities they participate in is really strange. And then the idea that some kids would be taken out of class, that just seems bizarre.”