Florida Law Prevents Dictionaries from Being Donated to Public Schools

Mary Papenfuss, reporting for HuffPost (a source I usually disregard as being exceedingly liberal):

All book donations and purchases have been halted in the district for the rest of the year because the new law (HB 1467) requires books to be approved for suitability by state-certified media specialists, a job that doesn’t currently exist in the district.

DeSantis, who has signed laws that also restrict discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in elementary school classrooms, has said HB 1467 will help prevent “indoctrination through the school system.”

The Sarasota district, which has nearly 45,000 students across 62 schools south of Tampa, ordered all principals last week to bar new books from school media centers and classroom libraries until at least January […]

[…] a member of the Venice Suncoast Rotary Club, told The Sarasota Herald-Tribune that the club has been donating dictionaries to district elementary schools for almost 15 years.

If there’s anything Florida needs more of, it’s goddamn books, especially dictionaries. Next time they (or Texas) threaten to secede, let them.