The solid of CBS Saturday Morning unfold some misinformation in regards to the state of training in Florida when correspondent Cristian Benavides claimed that “lecture rooms and college libraries appear to be this” whereas displaying a photograph from a substitute trainer that was fired on Wednesday for spreading misinformation.

Throughout his report, Benavides interviewed trainer Andrea Phillips, who was not the one who was fired, however who was there to offer the anti-Gov. Ron DeSantis emotion, “And not using a numerous number of books that signify my college students, I am unable to get them fascinated about books.”

Reporting over some viral photos, Benavides recalled, “Duval County Public Faculties, which incorporates Jacksonville, mentioned it might conduct a proper evaluate of all books. Whereas that evaluate is ongoing, lecture rooms and college libraries appear to be this.”

What Benavides neglected was an announcement from the district. From First Coast Information:

In dialogue between the district and ESS concerning this particular person’s misrepresentation of the books accessible to college students within the faculty’s library and the disruption this misrepresentation has brought on, it was decided that he had violated social media and cellphone insurance policies of his employer. Subsequently, ESS decided these coverage violations made it essential to half methods with this particular person. (emphasis added)

Benavides then referenced the regulation’s precise contents, “Underneath Florida’s HB1467 regulation, starting this 12 months faculty books need to be reviewed by a media specialist to make sure they’re freed from pornography or sure race-based teachings from kindergarten to 3rd grade, the books should be freed from instruction on sexual orientation and gender id.”

This raises the query whether or not Phillips was fearmongering earlier within the phase or whether or not she is giving eight year-olds inappropriate studying materials, however Benavides wasn’t fascinated about that. As an alternative, Phillips was proven lamenting, “They’ve come for academics over masks. They’ve come for academics over books. Lecturers have been referred to as groomers.”

Later, Benavides ignored his personal reporting in regards to the Ok-3 elements of the regulation by citing a sixth grader who “fears certainly one of his favourite books could also be banned from the classroom.” The boy in query then claimed, “As a result of there is a boy who likes a boy within the sequence.”

In yet one more occasion of dishonest framing, when Phillips was “how loopy this entire state of affairs is,” CBS confirmed a picture of a stack of books by Roald Dahl whereas the writer of his books, Puffin, has taken it upon themselves to take away phrases like “fats” and “girls and boys” and including passages he by no means wrote to suit a political agenda.

When the phase ultimately ended, again in studio co-host Michelle Miller puzzled, “I feel the worry lots of folks have is what will likely be erased from the lecture rooms. Who will likely be represented, who will not be? And you understand, it is trickling all the best way as much as highschool now. The ban on the AP historical past course that’s piloted now throughout the nation, and a lot extra. The place will it cease?”

Fellow co-host Dana Jacobson concurred, “I feel, Michelle, that was very properly mentioned as to erasing who you might be erasing out of issues, out of books proper now, and who’s making these selections, as properly.”

To reply Miller’s query, it can finish when the left stops making an attempt to push their partisan agendas on kids.

This phase was sponsored by Progressive.

Here’s a transcript for the February 18 present:

CBS Saturday Morning

2/18/2023

8:30 AM ET

JEFF GLOR: We start this half hour with the controversy over Florida’s training reform regulation championed by Governor Ron DeSantis. Protesters marched on the state capitol in response to DeSantis’s rejection of AP African-American Research programs in Florida’s public colleges. 

The Republican governor has additionally championed an training reform regulation that has led to books being pulled from lecture rooms and faculty libraries. Cristian Benavides reviews on how this new regulation is affecting the state’s educators. 

CRISTIAN BENAVIDES: Jacksonville trainer Andrea Phillips makes a speciality of serving to third graders who battle to learn. 

ANDREA PHILLIPS: And not using a numerous number of books that signify my college students, I am unable to get them fascinated about books. 

Here is my ebook jail—

BENAVIDES: In January because the state celebrated literacy week in colleges, Phillips says she was advised to pack up her classroom library. 

PHILLIPS: We had been being directed till all books might be vetted and we might make certain that we had been in compliance with the state legal guidelines – 

BENAVIDES: Duval County Public Faculties, which incorporates Jacksonville, mentioned it might conduct a proper evaluate of all books. Whereas that evaluate is ongoing, lecture rooms and college libraries appear to be this. 

Underneath Florida’s HB1467 regulation, starting this 12 months faculty books need to be reviewed by a media specialist to make sure they’re freed from pornography or sure race-based teachings from kindergarten to 3rd grade, the books should be freed from instruction on sexual orientation and gender id. 

The college district reminded educators violating components of the regulation may lead academics to be charged with a felony. 

PHILLIPS: They’ve come for academics over masks. They’ve come for academics over books. Lecturers have been referred to as groomers. 

BENAVIDES: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a number of new training legal guidelines that he says empower mother and father. 

RON DESANTIS: Floridians need our faculty system to be about educating youngsters, not indoctrinating youngsters. 

BENAVIDES: Sixth-grader Jonas Walter fears certainly one of his favourite books could also be banned from the classroom. 

JONAS WALTER: As a result of there is a boy who likes a boy within the sequence. 

BENAVIDES: Stefani Jorgensen Walter is his mom. 

STEFANI JORGENSEN WALTER: I feel what the laws is doing is making an attempt to stoke worry that issues are occurring within the classroom that are not occurring. 

BENAVIDES: Phillips vows to proceed her struggle for as lengthy as she will. 

PHILLIPS: These all need to go. 

So I’ve some well being points that I don’t how for much longer I’ll be within the classroom, it’s very upsetting and it’s actually arduous for me to not simply need to yell and scream at—about how loopy this entire state of affairs is.

BENAVIDES: Faculty libraries have hundreds of books. Add to that classroom libraries, and infrequently it is only one media specialist per faculty sorting by way of all of it. For CBS Saturday Morning, Cristian Benavides, Jacksonville, Florida. 

MICHELLE MILLER:  I feel the worry lots of folks have is what will likely be erased from the lecture rooms. Who will likely be represented, who will not be? And you understand, it is trickling all the best way as much as highschool now. The ban on the AP historical past course that’s piloted now throughout the nation, and a lot extra. The place will it cease? 

DANA JACOBSON: I feel, Michelle, that was very properly mentioned as to erasing who you might be erasing out of issues, out of books proper now, and who’s making these selections, as properly.