What educational materials are you referring to? In Florida, the responsibility for choosing educational materials, negotiating with publishers, etc, was at the school district level.
Schools need to adhere to the Common Core subject areas, but what materials they use in teaching that was up to the district.
Recently, Florida's state-level Department of Education has been restricting the textbooks that school districts can use, but this is more of a reject list, than an accept list.
If the local area has a subpopulation with enough political power to ban the teachings of things they don't like, such as basic science, should they be allowed to do that given the harm it will cause the kids and society?
Yes — I believe in democratic societies where if a majority feels something is dangerous, they have a right to make policy around that issue.
I also believe in constitutional republics where we have overriding laws which protect minorities — but that doesn’t apply in this case, as there isn’t an inherent right to discuss sex with other people’s young children.
>I believe in democratic societies where if a majority feels something is dangerous, they have a right to make policy around that issue.
So it would be acceptable for those same religious people to stop females from getting the same sort of education males receive? The damage done to others by such actions has to be taken into account.
> I also believe in constitutional republics where we have overriding laws which protect minorities
I addressed that already.
> The damage done to others by such actions has to be taken into account.
This is something said but not done: look at how the male minority is treated in education, where the female majority speaks about equality while engaging in institutional sexism against the minority.
If Democrats want me to believe they are genuine in those principles, they should apply them consistently.
It absolutely is not the case educational material decisions are a purely local choice as the “status quo”.