fight for the speakers dpafbl house speaker kevin mccarthy put that hard fought victory to work and announced a piece of legislation that is at the heart of the republican platform. standing in front of the portrait of george washington the speaker described rights. so many parents were attacked, call terrorists because they simply wanted to go to a school board meeting to be heard on what s going on. one thing going on in this country is education is a great equalizer and we want parents to be empowered, and that s what we re doing today, that you have a say in your kids education, not government, and not telling you what to do. the irony here is almost too obvious to explain. here s a bill introduced by the speaker of the house changing the way parents children are taught in school. mccarthy is literally the government telling them what to do, and he s not alone. in the past several months there s been a wave of republican led bills attacking schools and attacking educa
desantis. this is what he said. the core curriculum must be grounded in actual history, the actual philosophy that s shaped western civilization. we don t want students to go through at taxpayer expense and graduate with a degree in zombie studies. what is his definition of actual history? that s very, very vague. what do you think it is? i don t know. he doesn t tell me. i think he just wants to show one side of history, but the world is messy. the world is, like the world is diverse. you have to show that. when it comes to that statement by ron desantis i personally find it i guess comedic and ridiculous in my own sense because i m a neuro science major and i m minoring in applied mathematics computer science and chemistry. zombie studies. so i don t think i ve seen a major listed as zombie studies and how that connection with history came about. i think someone who must have