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Here's a fun variation on that "Florida man" game that was going around (just type "Florida man" in Google, hit enter, and be rewarded with a story about some goober shooting his rifle to stop a thunderstorm or some such...)

Let's play "Florida Schools." Ready?

Florida schools are removing Shakespeare due to sexual content concerns. Yes, the schools in the Too Much Sunshine State have concerns about sexual content in the educational material in their "schools." The State That Made DeSantis Famous has something called "Bench-marks for Excellent Student Thinking" and how do you like this, that dirty old Willie Shakespeare is on the list for writing materials with sexual content.  

Several Florida school districts are now avoiding Shakespeare's works, and other classics, because Ron D. Santis feels there is too much sexual content in them. Hillsborough County is instructing teachers to assign excerpts from plays like "Romeo and Juliet," instead of having them read the whole daggone play, says the  Tampa Bay Times.

Joseph Cool is a teacher at Gaither High School. He points out that  "Taking Shakespeare in its entirety out because the relationship between Romeo and Juliet is somehow exploiting minors is just absurd." He added “I think the rest of the nation — no, the world, is laughing at us." 

The teacher is right, as usual.

I never thought I would see the day when classic literature is taken out of the classroom. Of course, they need the time down there during the school day to teach kids that slavery was a marvelous internship opportunity, and that Native Americans were offered the chance to relocate to a Valhalla at the end of the Trail Of Tears.

Oh Ron, it's time you Woke Up.