I will also piggyback a bit more on this, because I think the state can set curriculum standards for it’s public universities, and I’m not sure if banning CRT would violate any consitutional rights. I suspect it will have to go under how they word it. I think if they say it can’t be taught that would violate constitutional rights to freedom of expression and so on, but if they don’t fund certain programs that would not be a violation. Someone with actual constitutional law experience would have to weigh in on that.
However, that doesn’t mean the debate should be closed to discussing if a state should ban certain topics. The point of a discussion is to talk about would this be good or not, and in the interest of keeping on topic and not politics. In this case, would these moves for Florida strengthen their schools or weaken them?
I mean we could just say - you don’t like it leave… but that seems both unproductive and against the purpose of a message board - which I think should be about discussing opinions in a respectful manner.