DeSantis: Founding Fathers Would Hate Sociology

Florida Politics reports:

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. 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.”

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Florida is the only state to remove sociology as a core course, degrading higher ed and putting students at disadvantage.

Comm. Diaz called it too “woke” without any evidence or research in order to boost DeSantis in Iowa— where he lost by 30% and dropped out.

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— Carlos Guillermo Smith (@CarlosGSmith) January 28, 2024