DeSantis celebrates GOP school board victories: 'Florida is the state where woke goes to die'

On the night of his state's primary elections, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addressed a Republican crowd to celebrate conservative victories in school boards all over the state

"Parents are sick of the nonsense when it comes to education," DeSantis said. "We want the schools to educate kids, we are sick of the indoctrination. We want to make sure that they’re teaching them the basics, teaching them to read, write, add, subtract all the important subjects, not trying to jam woke gender ideology down their throat, not trying to do divisive rhetoric like CRT that's teaching kids to hate each other and hate our country."

DeSantis was the target of attacks from Democrats and the media earlier this year when he signed the Parental Rights in Education Act, which prohibits teachers from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity with children until after third grade. Democrats accused the law of being anti-gay. DeSantis rejected that notion, asserting that it was merely meant to keep children from being exposed to certain subjects at a young age unless parents decided to address them on their own.