His plan aims to apply his particular conservative instruction manual throughout the country. Although his campaign may be in the doldrums, DeSantis seems the only candidate capable of standing up to Donald Trump.

It is a movement that has taken hold across the country, at the same pace as the increase in political polarization, but, as is now the norm on the multiple fronts of the “culture war,” it is being waged with particular viciousness in Florida.ĭeSantis has made the issue a priority and a trump card in his more than likely run for the White House in 2024. The conservative book ban has become part of the American landscape since the pandemic, when parents across the country who were home schooling their children, took a look at what they were required to read, and launched a crusade to “question” the curriculum. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on April 19 in Charleston, South Carolina, in front of a mural that reads “Florida’s Example.” SEAN RAYFORD (Getty Images via AFP) “They are suffering a full-fledged attack on public education,” he said. In a telephone interview with EL PAÍS on Monday, he was adamant that when he uploaded the video he was not acting as a teacher, but as the father of his two children, aged seven and 10, who are students in Duval County school district. That put an end to Covey’s plans to become a teacher he had previously worked in finance.

“We will no longer require your services,” he was told. Visiting Jacksonville, the state’s biggest city, a local reporter asked Governor Ron DeSantis about the 17-second tracking shot: He dismissed it as a “false narrative.” The next day, Covey received a call from the company that had hired him as a substitute teacher at another school in the district. The footage, which went viral, showed empty bookshelves in the library of a middle school in Duval County, Florida. Last January he posted a video on his Twitter account, in which he gave vent to his passion, above all, for the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team. Brian Covey says he did not set out to become a symbol of the resistance to the United States book bans, a phenomenon that has set yet another all-time record.

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