
Seniors from Apopka High School line up at the start of their graduation commencement ceremony at Amway Center on May 26, 2022, in Orlando, Florida. - Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS
This is what we believe to be true about Florida parents: They don’t want the government indoctrinating their kids, or usurping their own decisions when it comes to belief systems, sexuality, faith or politics. That’s true of Republicans. Of Democrats. Of those who have rejected partisan labels, and those who don’t care about politics at all. Politicians understand that as well. That’s why they often pitch their most egregious efforts to interject themselves into those family conversations as responses to attacks on parental freedom from “the other side.” Liberals and conservatives alike have ...