Ron DeSantis claims ‘Founding Fathers’ would reject sociology in remarks to homeschoolers

DeSantis image via EOG from Homeschoolers Convention
'It's highly ideological and it is not the type of academic rigor that we're looking for.'

Gov. Ron DeSantis is sounding off about sociology yet again. And this time the architects of the American experience have his back.

The Governor went back for a second slam of the academic discipline in as many months on Thursday, in remarks to the Florida Homeschool Convention in Orlando.

“Florida used to require all students to take a course in sociology,” DeSantis reflected. “Now, look, if you want to do sociology, I mean, fine but why are we requiring sociology but not requiring American history or other classical subjects? So we in Florida we got rid of the requirement that you have to do sociology. And we added a requirement for American history for all of our undergrads. The media did not like that at all.”

The Governor wasn’t done with the press corps, though.

“But think about it. Why would they get upset about that? If this is such an important subject, then you wouldn’t have to mandate, there would be people that would do it right. And people would be crawling over,” DeSantis added. “But really, it’s very mushy. It’s highly ideological and it is not the type of academic rigor that we’re looking for and that our Founding Fathers would have thought essential to be educating folks.”

The precise education system the Founding Fathers might have wanted is a matter of speculation, of course, but the crowd was good with his latest visitation of the topic.

He’d previously griped about “sociology” degrees as bad value in a recent denunciation of President Joe Biden’s restructuring of student loan debt obligations.

“He doesn’t have the authority to do. It is to basically say, you know, ‘If you’re a truck driver, you didn’t go to college, you don’t have student debt. Sorry, you’re going to have to pony up to pay the student loans of somebody, you know, who maybe got a degree in sociology or something and is not gainfully employed and can’t afford the loans.’ That is not fair,” DeSantis said in St. Petersburg  last month.

According to ZipRecruiter, it is possible for Floridians to make a living wage of close to $50,000 per year with a sociology degree, though that number is roughly $20,000 below the national average, in yet another illustration of depressed wages in an increasingly expensive state.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


110 comments

  • ScienceBLVR

    May 23, 2024 at 8:48 pm

    Yeah, I’ve got a history course I’d love to educate DeSantis with.. you know, that includes topics like the evils of slavery, Jim Crow laws, racism, civil rights. What is this weird obsession he has with sociology courses, anyway?

    • Tom

      May 24, 2024 at 7:12 am

      I think his kids are names Mason and Dixon or something like that so you know deep down he’s damaged goods. The free state of Florida where history is just stuff someone made up.

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    • Richard Paula

      May 24, 2024 at 9:52 am

      I wonder if Gov DeSantis ever reflects that slavery was legal in many of the American colonies and later the states for hundreds of years until 1865 and that slavery in practice was prevalent in varying degrees in the south until well into pthe 1960s

      • Josh Green

        May 25, 2024 at 9:39 pm

        He knows, and would bring slavery back if he could
        He’s a racist piece of filth, and he’s proven that with his own words and actions.

      • MH/Duuuval

        May 27, 2024 at 9:18 pm

        Our friends in New England also enslaved indigenous folk.

    • Elvis Pitts "The Big Voice On The Right" American

      May 24, 2024 at 6:34 pm

      Good evening “Dook 4 Brains Leftys,
      You “DOOKS” are always and forever what you accuse your opponents of being.
      Our Sage Black Men and Sage Blaxk women here have left “The Democratic Plantation” and casting their votes for Donald J. TRUMP!!!!
      Ot is clear now to “One & All” that the evils of slavery, Jim Crow laws, racism, civil rights, have “ALWAYS & FOREVER” been forced upon our Great Nations Blacks by The Grand Wizards of The Democratic Party.
      In retrospect:
      QUESTION:
      What did the USA Blacks get out of the Democrat’s last election’s panderings of BLM?
      ANSWER:
      Nothing.
      The Evil Charlations AKA The Democrats must “PAY WITH THEIR POWER” and America’s Sage Black Men & Black Women are going to “Make You DOOKS PAY & PAY DEARLY”.
      Thank you,
      Elvis Pitts “A Sage Brother Himself” American.
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    • Sally B

      May 24, 2024 at 8:52 pm

      It could be from his undergraduate degree in history from Yale with honors.

      • rick whitaker

        May 24, 2024 at 9:14 pm

        SALLY B, wrap a turd in 2 or 3 degrees with honors, put a bow on it, and it’s still a turd wrapped in degrees with honors.

    • Hung Wiil

      May 25, 2024 at 4:12 pm

      You’re projecting again. It’s you that has the obsessions. Now put some mustard on your shit sandwich, tool.

      • rick whitaker

        May 25, 2024 at 6:52 pm

        HUNG, sounds like you could take a course in sociology to improve your social understanding. right now, you sound like a jerk, are you a jerk, or are you just having a bad decade?

        • Hung Wiil

          May 25, 2024 at 8:40 pm

          Blah blah blah

          • rick whitaker

            May 31, 2024 at 7:23 pm

            HUNG, what language are you speaking, sounds like southern maga to me.

  • KathrynA

    May 23, 2024 at 8:54 pm

    Isn’t that the truth? My sociology classes were so good and helped you realize how communities and families and more operate–nothing whatsoever bad in them at all. They want to “dumb down” this entire state!

    • Frankie M.

      May 23, 2024 at 9:01 pm

      It’s about time parents were educated about the evils or Social Emotional Learning (SEL). We’re turning our kids into a bunch of empathetic pansies the founding fathers would eat for lunch. On an unrelated note can Ronnie D reimburse me for my history degree. It isn’t t worth the paper it’s printed on.

      • Michael K

        May 23, 2024 at 9:28 pm

        The degree is only a piece of paper. The application of knowledge is where the rubber meets the road. Some have it, some don’t. Some of the most successful people I know have liberal arts degrees and can think critically and adapt to change. The secret sauce is to question assumptions. That’s how we make progress. Rigidity and conformity are the goals of petty autocrats and dictators.

        • Richard Paula

          May 24, 2024 at 9:47 am

          Right on! Good for you

        • Hung Wiil

          May 25, 2024 at 4:14 pm

          Your secret sauce is running down your leg.

      • MH/Duuuval

        May 26, 2024 at 10:01 am

        The Founding Fathers, most of them, were happy to enslave folks they got overseas who were kidnapped and then sold in the marketplaces of the US.

  • KathrynA

    May 23, 2024 at 8:57 pm

    Amazing too, after seeing sea levels rise and heat up and we’re enduring heat indexes well over 100 degrees; we’re to ignore obvious climate change and not teach or discuss this. Look at how many more hurricanes we’ve had the past few years and how intense some are becoming. Look at the intensity of the tornadoes the last few weeks in the mid-section of our country and how many are occurring, but never mind–just bury your head and ignore it all.

  • Bye Rhonda

    May 23, 2024 at 8:57 pm

    Right!!! Give Rhonda a history course on facist nazi racist bigots that lose presidential elections. Oh! That history lesson is still being written! Bye Rhonda!

  • Recall DeSantis

    May 23, 2024 at 9:02 pm

    I can’t help it, Ron DeSantis you came into office and gave us hope but slammed our faces right in the pile of poop on the ground, your poop! Get over yourself, stop this ignorant “ideology, indoctrination, woke” nonsense and get back to helping people and the environment! You’re not going to be picked for vice president because you’re a chump and a loser and Trump knows it! I’m a voter of yours but I wished now I hadn’t of voted for you!

    • Cheesy Floridian

      June 3, 2024 at 10:19 am

      Same here thank you for your comment. I am sad that I voted for this man in 2018. I did not vote for him in 2022. I believe he is the one doing the indoctrinating. He is a bad governor.

  • MarvinM

    May 23, 2024 at 9:03 pm

    What the hell schools don’t require American History?
    And what the hell is he talking about “So we in Florida we got rid of the requirement that you have to do sociology. And we added a requirement for American history for all of our undergrads. The media did not like that at all.”

    Undergrads? He’s speaking to a Homeschooling organization.

    I think he might not know completely what the hell he is talking about.

    • Hung Wiil

      May 25, 2024 at 4:15 pm

      Stupidity

  • Michael K

    May 23, 2024 at 9:20 pm

    Of course, DeSantis hates sociology. He also hates Sunshine Laws equity, and transparency. Sociology helps us understand the dynamics that gird our political, social, and economic systems. People like DeSantis want people to remain stupid, ignorant and unquestioning. This from the guy who refuses to allow outdoor workers in South Florida water breaks while laboring in 100+ degree heat.

    And by the way, most of our founding fathers refused to consider women equal citizens, worthy of voting or owning property. Most all benefitted from the enslavement of human beings. In other words, the “good old days” for so-called “originalists.”

  • My Take

    May 23, 2024 at 10:05 pm

    Is DeScamus the dumbest Ivy League grad?
    Or are there a few dull legacies as bad or worse?

    • MH/Duuuval

      May 27, 2024 at 9:21 pm

      W gets my vote

      • rick whitaker

        May 30, 2024 at 2:31 pm

        yale graduates need to demand a refund

  • Audrey Cummins

    May 23, 2024 at 11:43 pm

    His dumb war on wokeness didn’t get him anywhere in his primary bid for President. Or maybe it was that he has the personality of a rock. Why is he dead set on shoving it to Floridians? What a strange little man!

    • MarvinM

      May 24, 2024 at 5:05 pm

      Why didn’t Ron’s presidential bid go anywhere?
      Just estimating here, but could be:
      Personality of a rock – 49%
      Exposed he can’t ad lib without saying a lot of stupid stuff – 29%
      Dumb war on wokeness – 10%
      Exposed authoritarian bent – 10%
      White Boots – 2%

      • Ocean Joe

        May 25, 2024 at 5:45 am

        You left out the cow bells and the lifts.

  • PeterH

    May 23, 2024 at 11:56 pm

    Education is designed to prepare students of all ages for the world of the future…. not some imaginary generation two hundred years ago when half of our so called founding fathers were slave holders.

  • FortmyersLena

    May 24, 2024 at 1:03 am

    sociology is science, the science of social structures and culture, there are several legs in sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of religion etc, Desantis is a conservative ideologue trying to erase science in favor of religious BS, he wants to be the white nationalist christian moral pope, he is a danger to humanity

    • Hung Wiil

      May 25, 2024 at 4:17 pm

      There is no science to it moron.
      The scientific method is required for it to be science. Sociology is about liberal feelings not science. Choke on it.

      • rick whitaker

        May 25, 2024 at 6:44 pm

        HUNG, you do know you sound like a bitch, right.

        • Hung Wiil

          May 25, 2024 at 8:41 pm

          I own you Ricky

          • rick whitaker

            May 26, 2024 at 1:14 pm

            HUNG, my major in college was behavioral science. it seems based on your posts that you are either not aware of the science, or just don’t care. behavioral science is generally made up of five branches. philosophy, sociology, theology, psychology, and anthropology. so, you don’t care about these things huh? no wonder you are so disrespectful of others.

      • Michael K

        May 26, 2024 at 9:13 am

        You really don’t know anything about science, or the scientific method of inquiry, do you? Did you know that economics is also a science? Ever heard of behavioral science?

      • Dont Say FLA

        May 27, 2024 at 10:03 pm

        Lil, you’re a Scientologist? You sound just like Tom Cruise hopping around on Oprah’s couch all over again. Is Top Gun the reason you profess to be in love with Flop Gov? Scientology made you do it? Now I see why you’ve been so so bitter lately. Damn Scientologists, making you do stuff while taking all your money.

  • Eric H

    May 24, 2024 at 5:27 am

    Who cares what the founding father said? The founding fathers were trash slave owners who fled europe due to abortion. They fled Europe specifically to own other prople.

    • Eh

      May 24, 2024 at 5:28 am

      Abolition not abortion.

      • Ocean Joe

        May 25, 2024 at 5:46 am

        They might have been fleeing abortion…post birth abortion in some cases.

        They brought a few Indians back to London as pets.

        • MH/Duuuval

          May 27, 2024 at 9:27 pm

          Dee denies whites stole the land inhabited by the First Nations. So many of his views are pernicious, but I find this the most preposterous.

      • Ocean Joe

        May 25, 2024 at 5:46 am

        They might have been fleeing abortion…post birth abortion in some cases.

        They brought a few Indians back to London as pets.

    • Hung Wiil

      May 25, 2024 at 4:18 pm

      YAG backwards

      • rick whitaker

        May 25, 2024 at 6:48 pm

        HUNG , you keep advertising with that gay word turned around backwards. is that what you want, to be turned around backwards? has anyone answered your call yet?

  • Gary

    May 24, 2024 at 7:37 am

    The founding fathers would have problems with sociology, yes. And with Black slaves and women learning to read. And with public high schools.

    Why doesn’t this retrograde, knuckle-dragging moron keep his half-baked “history” theories to himself?

    • Hung Wiil

      May 25, 2024 at 4:19 pm

      Gary
      How does it smell so far up your ass?

      • rick whitaker

        May 25, 2024 at 6:43 pm

        HUNG, does talking like a punk make you feel something good?

  • Rona is a blowhard

    May 24, 2024 at 8:12 am

    Rona knows about as much about the Founding Fathers as Don Tramp knows about having a solid bowel movement. Why can’t he just shut the big yap, put on his white rubber boots and stand on a beach in South Florida scaring away Haitians?

  • Derek Wohlust

    May 24, 2024 at 9:04 am

    I wonder how they would feel about diverting tax payer funds from public education to religious schools?

  • KathrynA

    May 24, 2024 at 9:17 am

    Last night, the top news stories on the Tampa news stations was a dog trapped in a very hot car while the owner was at the beach. I agree this is despicable and the owner should face consequences, but the state says it’s “pro-life”, but won’t mandate that outdoor workers have water breaks when the heat and humidity are well over 100 degrees. Why are not people’s lives at least as important, as dogs.

  • Kathryn

    May 24, 2024 at 10:39 am

    OMG, I’m about to get started. Why is he even talking about sociology to homeschoolers? Especially since private schools and homeschools do not have to follow the same curriculum as the public schools in Florida. Moreover, public schools have never mandated that sociology be taken. However, history is a requirement in public schools. Why is he even talking about a rigorous education to those who home school. Home and private schools can CREATE THEIR OWN CURRICULUM AND
    ARE NOT REQUIRED TO ADMINISTER STANDARDIZED TESTS NOR DO THEIR STUDENTS HAVE TO TAKE THEM. It’s just beyond my comprehension as to why Desantis is hell bent on turning out future dummies.

    • Ocean Joe

      May 25, 2024 at 5:49 am

      The best example of this is when a home schooled kid (with some exceptions) shows up to a public high school math class.

      • MH/Duuuval

        May 27, 2024 at 9:28 pm

        This then becomes the public schools problem.

    • Hung Wiil

      May 25, 2024 at 4:21 pm

      Kat
      I’m sure he’ll hire you to be the speechwriter since your such an obvious genius

      • rick whitaker

        May 25, 2024 at 6:04 pm

        HUNG, disrespect is your calling card.

    • rick whitaker

      May 25, 2024 at 6:06 pm

      KATHRYN don’t pay attention to hung, he lacks social skills, he must have been homeschooled.

      • Hung Wiil

        May 25, 2024 at 6:29 pm

        Considering getting rid of Sociology as a required class was my proposal, I feel respected. I gave this idea to Rep Barnaby in 2022, got it done through the DOE. I don’t need you Ricky. I get it done.

        • MH/Duuuval

          May 26, 2024 at 10:06 am

          Who knew you were so connected?

          Sociology invariably looks at class structure in the US and this is the greatest fear of the Right who want to imagine we are a classless society — until their legacy can’t get into an Ivy.

    • rick whitaker

      May 31, 2024 at 7:34 pm

      KATHYRN, one of my daughters homeschooled all of her 5 kids. as soon as they turned 18, they all got the hell out. homeschooling is a form of child abuse in many cases.

  • Playing with ?

    May 24, 2024 at 10:48 am

    Culture is you have to hire potential offender’s that ain’t been caught yet.
    And then give 2 3 4 chances to co exist with.
    All a crop to sell porn

    • Hung Wiil

      May 25, 2024 at 6:32 pm

      Your playing with yourself cause your a dipshit

  • My Take

    May 24, 2024 at 12:46 pm

    How did a redneck gasbag clown persona persist through two Ivy League educations?

    • MH/Duuuval

      May 27, 2024 at 9:31 pm

      We never established whether Dee paid back his students loans when he got the million-dollar book advance,

  • Elvis Pitts "The Big Voice On The Right" American

    May 24, 2024 at 6:39 pm

    Good evening America,
    Please take the time to read Elvis [FKA Earl] Pitts American’s posting and “Knowledge-Share” of “Great & Sage Wisdom Above.
    Thank you America,
    Elvis [FKA EARL] Pitts American

  • Sally B

    May 24, 2024 at 8:55 pm

    Ron DeSantis — America’s Governor — is the greatest principled conservative leader in a generation and the most effective governor in the history of the free state of Florida. That’s why he won re-election by the greatest landslide in the history of modern Florida politics.

    • Elvis Pitts "The Big Voice On The Right" American

      May 24, 2024 at 10:50 pm

      Thank you Sage Sally B,
      We know our next VPOTUS Ron DeSantis is on the right side of history when so many “DOOK 4 BRAINS LEFTIST POSTERS” rant, rave, and gnash their teeth in response to his Wisdom as they did in the above comment section.
      Elvis Pitts American

    • My Take

      May 25, 2024 at 12:14 am

      A would-be Caribbean-style two-bit potentate.
      Baby-Doc DeSantis

    • Ocean Joe

      May 25, 2024 at 5:53 am

      Sally, he got re-elected because all these Republican carpet baggers have flooded the state and vote party line. There is absolutely no other reason.

      Will agree he has been the most effective governor in dividing us, in attacking tolerance, in climate denial, in being absent from office while running for president, although the latter was a gift from God. As was his extremely poor showing on primary day everywhere he was on the ballot. Salud!

      • Hung Wiil

        May 25, 2024 at 4:22 pm

        Whaaa.

      • Sally B

        May 26, 2024 at 8:09 am

        The Republican margin of registered voters over the Democrats’ has only increased exponentially since then. I suppose that’s why John Morgan of Morgan & Morgan, one of the erstwhile megadonors to the Democratic Party of Florida, called the political organization “a joke”, adding that its current chair, Nikki Fried, would never again win statewide office. He was smart in leaving the Democratic Party of Florida. Other registered Democrats in Florida have reportedly followed his lead. #LeadershipMatters. Meanwhile, DeSantis has won another lawsuit filed against him in federal court by supporters of another state attorney removed by America’s Governor for neglect of duty. It was but a few months ago that Disney’s lawsuit against America’s Governor was “summarily” dismissed in federal court. He just keeps winning with more than two years left in the Governor’s Mansion. Rest assured he’ll be doing even more in the months and years to come. It’s only fitting that the Lee County Board of County Commissioners want to name a bridge after him in honor of his leadership, especially in times of emergency and crisis. I love the free state of Florida, but paradise is not for everyone.

        • MH/Duuuval

          May 26, 2024 at 10:10 am

          Welcome, your majesty.

        • rick whitaker

          May 26, 2024 at 1:24 pm

          SALLY B, sounds like in the back of your mind you know that desantis has made florida a national laughing stock, but you wouldn’t dare admit it. sally b., you are either a phony poster or a very screwed up person, no doubt a christian.

        • jean solomon

          May 31, 2024 at 10:38 am

          please…..DISNEY’s lawsuite was not ‘dismissed’, Florida; wirhdrew from the lawsuit, i suppose the DISNEY lawyers scared the the Florida bunch…they knew they couldnot win…more tax payer money down the Desantis rabbit hole.

    • Debra

      May 26, 2024 at 5:28 pm

      3.7% I recall

    • Joe

      May 28, 2024 at 11:08 am

      Sally B’s username is listed as a prime example of the textbook definition of “useful idiot.”

  • 🌞

    May 25, 2024 at 3:33 pm

    Florida is 32 credits to graduate. Others are 36 to maybe 38 credits …either way it is not the founder’s ..why? because the grade level is different
    Today’s world and no more land to do what they did back then.is over.
    Concrete cities have taken its place.
    Get with the updates

    • Hung Wiil

      May 25, 2024 at 6:33 pm

      Imbecile

      • Dont Say FLA

        May 25, 2024 at 6:53 pm

        There’s been an increasingly apparent tinge of anger and bitterness with the MAGA commenters the last few weeks.

        Trump’s up in the polls in swing states, so what’s gone and crawled up yer butts, fellas?

  • Dont Say FLA

    May 25, 2024 at 6:50 pm

    The founding fathers are as dead as Rhonda’s campaign, so who gives AF what they might think about social sciences or anything else?

  • Dr. Franklin Waters

    May 25, 2024 at 9:29 pm

    The Founding Fathers owned slaves and didn’t give women the right to vote. Who gives a sh*t what they would have thought.

    • Sally B

      May 26, 2024 at 8:18 am

      They only wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. You may now dispense with your trite, disingenuous mantras about defending the Constitution and upholding the rule of law when you woke neo-Marxists don’t believe in either. Das Kapital, comrade! By the way, former Florida governor Jeb Bush contended to CNN’s Jake Tapper that Ron DeSantis may go down as the greatest governor in the history of the state of Florida.

      • Debra

        May 26, 2024 at 5:31 pm

        Jeb Bush, ? who cares!

      • Dont Say FLA

        May 27, 2024 at 10:09 pm

        Jebra Loves Rhonda

        How adorable!

        • MH/Duuuval

          May 28, 2024 at 9:49 pm

          They kissed made up in time for Jeb! to sit on the second inaugural stage. But, not to celebrate — he was shuffled off, stage right, to let the the snufflers take the stage.

      • MH/Duuuval

        May 29, 2024 at 12:21 pm

        Not to put to fine a point on it, but the enslaved didn’t worship the documents you do: Here’s a quote from a letter the author had left for his [former] enslaver in 1839, shortly before escaping:.

        “Sir, I have left you not to return,” he wrote. The letter was signed, “No longer yours, John S. Jacob.”

        The Constitution was redeemed by the Reconstruction Amendments, and most historians agree that the Civil War was the original revolution — which had to be fought for and restored again after WW2.

      • rick whitaker

        May 31, 2024 at 7:39 pm

        SALLY B so you can’t think for yourself huh? maga is a poor replacement. your remarks are infantile.

  • Sally B

    May 26, 2024 at 7:17 am

    U.S. News & World Report has once again ranked Florida the #1 state in education and in economy. #Leadership Matters

    • MH/Duuuval

      May 26, 2024 at 10:11 am

      #50 in average teacher pay — most of the laurels are for higher-ed.

      • Sally B

        May 26, 2024 at 10:24 am

        False narrative propagated by the neo-Marxist national teachers’ union that has since been debunked.

        • Elvis Pitts "The Big Voice On The Right" American

          May 26, 2024 at 10:47 am

          Good morn ‘Ting Sweet Sally B,
          Dont allow what seems to be a preponderance of “Dook 4 Brains Lefty Posters” sway you from Truth, Justice, & The American Way.
          Wanna know a little seceret Sally? There are actually only 6 fat White Boy Leftys posting here. They are all 25 – 37 years old, living still in Mom’s basement, smelly in-frequent shower taking pajama pants wearing (when not toutching themselves inappropriatly) “Jerkey Boys”.
          I know it seems us Patriots are the Minority here … but as I proved above we are not ….. Beaytiful Sally B we are The Sage MAJORITY !!!
          Thank you Sally B,
          Elvis Pitts American

          • rick whitaker

            May 26, 2024 at 12:37 pm

            GARY BURBANK/BILLY PURSER/ EARL, another racist, sexist comment. with people like you in florida, no wonder it has such a bad national reputation.

        • rick whitaker

          May 26, 2024 at 12:44 pm

          SALLY B , what a paranoid statement. you are 100% wrong, but are too commie scared to know it.

        • Debra

          May 26, 2024 at 5:35 pm

          oh, my, “false narrative” is spit out of Desantis mouth. google it. Florida is #50th in the nation for teacher pay. Google SAT scores too. 9,000 teacher left Florida last year due to book banning and other BS due to Desantis. You might be delusional, if you believe Desantis is your savior.

        • MH/Duuuval

          May 27, 2024 at 9:37 pm

          Debunked, where?

          Fla and WV are battling it out for #50 in average teacher pay.

        • MH/Duuuval

          May 28, 2024 at 9:54 am

          Pshaw!

      • Michael K

        May 26, 2024 at 10:24 am

        Florida is having trouble attracting top national talent at colleges and universities because of the culture war nonsense and climate of regression that has made Florida a laughing stock and a place with little regard for academic freedom and freedom of expression.

        • Elvis Pitts "The Big Voice On The Right" American

          May 26, 2024 at 10:54 am

          Wrong Michael K [Dook 4 Brains Lefty],
          Florida does not want “Your Stupid Idea of Top Talent”. We are doing just fine with our “Sage Acidemic Talent” here in Florida without any of your “Dook 4 Brains Lefty Professors and Administrators”.
          Thank you very much Michael K [Dook 4 Brains Lefty],
          Elvis [FKA Earl] Pitts American

          • Speedy y SloPoke

            May 26, 2024 at 11:06 am

            Gracious Senior Elvis for stepping in and doing the spanking of that dook Michael K. My cousin SloPoke had already tracked his Mamacieta’s smelly basement apartment and was loading up to go spank that dook Michael K himself.
            Thanks to you now Senior Elvis both me and my Savant Genius Couson SloPoke will be relaxing of the sphincters on Sunday and Mondays American holiday of the old military Dayo De El Morte.
            Speedy y SloPoke Gonzalez

          • rick whitaker

            May 31, 2024 at 7:43 pm

            EARL SHITS AKA BILLY PURSER, LEFT IS RIGHT, AND RIGHT IS WRONG. SIMPLE

    • rick whitaker

      May 26, 2024 at 1:03 pm

      SALLY B, #45 in opportunity.

      • rick whitaker

        May 30, 2024 at 2:25 pm

        sally b you are being owned.

    • Dont Say FLA

      May 27, 2024 at 10:17 pm

      Yes, Sally B, we covered that last year when you were in Iowa. The methodology is very silly, something about percentage of high schoolers who graduate, the in-state tuition for college, the percentage of citizens having a college degree, and debt incurred for education. It’s nothing about quality or return on investment or even any type of worthiness.

      Basically the #1 ranking means there’s lots of elderly retirees in Florida, high schools pass every student, and high schools inflated grades for scholarship award purposes while in state tuition in Florida schools is low because the schools are so bad they can’t even do football right. And nobody goes into debt to go to a Florida school, lol. Ain’t nobody that foolish with their money.

    • Joe

      May 28, 2024 at 11:06 am

      That includes only a #10 ranking for K-12 education, a number which will be dropping precipitously as qualified educators continue to flee Tiny D’s tinpot dictatorship.

  • MH/Duuuval

    May 27, 2024 at 9:40 pm

    Plenty of opportunity for those who surrender themselves at the MAGA altar.

  • Joe

    May 28, 2024 at 11:04 am

    Sociology has been an academic discipline since the time of the founders, you absolute dolt, Tiny D.
    Sorry you’re so scared of the voting population learning what a bunch of craven corrupt cowards you RepubliQans all are.

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