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I noted earlier in this blog that the FL legislature was seeking a way to use mask mandates to expand their voucher program… and Axios Reporter Shawna Chen describes the creative solution in her recent article, “Florida will offer school vouchers in cases of “COVID-19 harassment“. It seems that in its relentless push to privatize public education  over the years, at one time FL created “Hope scholarships” to provide a way for the parents of students who were bullied and harassed to get vouchers to attend private schools. The law has now been expanded to cover PARENTS who experience “Covid harassment” which is defined as 

“any threatening, discriminatory, insulting, or dehumanizing verbal, written or physical conduct an individual student suffers in relation to, or as a result of, school districts protocols for COVID-19, including masking requirement, the separation or isolation of students, or COVID-19 testing requirements.”

In his effort to dispel any fear that their children will be exposed to the Covid given Florida’s status as the most infected state, Governor DeSantis blamed the surge on a “seasonal pattern” and “media hysteria.”

Feel free to insert your own tag line here about the “Hope scholarship” moniker… and hope that not too many children suffer because of the harassment their parents suffer,.