Lake County School Board ditches restrictions on children’s book about male penguin couple
'And Tango Makes Three'

The book, a true story, is back on shelves in Central Florida.

Months after access to a popular children’s book about a male penguin couple hatching a chick was restricted at school libraries because of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay law,” a central Florida school district says it has reversed that decision.

The School Board of Lake County and Florida education officials last week asked a federal judge to toss out a First Amendment lawsuit brought by students and the authors of “And Tango Makes Three” in June. Their complaint challenged the restrictions and Florida’s new law prohibiting classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels.

The lawsuit is moot since age restrictions on “And Tango Makes Three” have been lifted following a Florida Department of Education memo that said the new law only applied to classroom instruction and not school libraries, according to motions filed Friday by Florida education officials and school board members of the district located outside Orlando.

Associated Press


5 comments

  • Lynda

    August 8, 2023 at 10:21 am

    Keep traveling, Ron. Sanity is returning to school boards and education in Florida. Perhaps your next “campaign” will be for a country like Hungary which already has a dictator. whatever keeps you from roiling up your supporters to ban books and lessons about the reality of the world.

    A “true” story about penguins in a New York zoo is no longer banned except for actual classroom instruction.

    Don’t forget about the decision which cut 28,000 Florida students from taking an Advanced Placement college level course on Psychology. AP courses save students money and often make them more attractive to universities and colleges which have limited openings.

  • Yarvard and Hale

    August 8, 2023 at 12:02 pm

    Ron is only running for President because he’s trying to get his student loans paid off by us, seeing as how we clearly “failed” him, and he says unemployable graduates will have their student loans pain off by the schools that “failed” them.

    Can the little guy even pass a law that doesn’t get overturned and repealed? It seems not.

    Perhaps we can start a Go Fun Me and pay off Ron’s and Casey’s student loans and in exchange they just go away.

    But seriously, we should have failed him. F after F after F is what that boy earned. He was a pretty good pitcher, but it wasn’t worth it. Ron is embarrassing to us.

    • Kay Whitfield

      August 15, 2023 at 10:05 am

      Thank you. It’d nice to hear others echoing my opinion of the autocrat known as DeSantis. This state is turning into a haven for white supremacist/ nazi minded bigots and he is taking the state in that direction!

  • James Plattes

    August 10, 2023 at 8:55 am

    We won’t be visiting Florida. Republicans used to be about personal freedom of choice. What happened?

  • Kay Whitfield

    August 15, 2023 at 10:06 am

    Thank you. It’d nice to hear others echoing my opinion of the autocrat known as DeSantis. This state is turning into a haven for white supremacist/ nazi minded bigots and he is taking the state in that direction!

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