Last year, Sunshine State Governor Ron DeSantis created a 50-hour, online Western Civilization course for Florida teachers. They get $3,000 and a ‘Civics Seal of Excellence’ if they take it. So far, according to the Governor’s recent comments, twenty-one thousand teachers have completed the course. This is the way.
CLIP: Governor DeSantis explains new classic studies for teachers program (2:47).
DeSantis said over $60 million has been paid to Florida teachers in bonuses so far. Beyond the direct help to teachers, that number matters much more because every one of them returns to the classroom with a deeper understanding of where our ideas about democracy, individual rights, and the rule of law actually came from— and they pass it on to students who, in most other states, will never encounter those ideas in any structured way.
It’s the opposite of the DEI model: instead of teaching kids what to think, it trains teachers to explain how we learned to think in the first place. More, please.
