TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida’s ban on teaching critical race theory in schools and workplaces is back in the House for discussion on Tuesday.
House Bill 7, entitled “Individual Freedom,” would, according to the legislature, “expand” the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992 and protections of the Florida Educational Equity Act.
HB 7 would block teaching racially-focused subjects and examinations from educational curriculum or workplace trainings. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis first announced the idea behind the legislation at a December 2021 event in Wildwood, Fla., where he called it the “Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids And Employees Act,” or “Stop WOKE Act,” which would codify current state Department of Education bans on critical race theory into law.
The text of HB 7 states it is discrimination to force anyone to take any teaching or training that makes them “feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress” based on their “race, color, sex or national origin.”
HB 7 also states any such teaching, training or activity that “espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels” them to believe their race, color, sex, or national origin is morally superior to members of another is also discrimination.
HB 7 states it constitutes discrimination to subject any student or employee — or any individual “as a condition of employment, membership, certification, licensing, credentialing, or passing an examination” —to any training or instruction that “espouses, promotes,...
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