Today at Tampa's Tiger Bay Club political forum, a candidate for Hillsborough County School Board said a recent Florida book ban was justified, and defended the state's attacks on "critical race theory" (CRT), despite little evidence of it being taught in public schools. Alysha "Aly Marie" Legge, candidate for county-wide District 6, was one of six school board candidates to speak at the forum, but the only one who spouted inaccuracies about Governor Ron DeSantis' recent book bans and CRT. Legge is involved in multiple right wing anti-vaccination groups and has taken a hard stance against CRT—a critical way of understanding how racism in America has shaped the country's history and public policy—from being taught in grade school.
Today at Tampa's Tiger Bay Club political forum, a candidate for Hillsborough County School Board said a recent Florida book ban was justified, and defended the state's attacks on "critical race theory" (CRT), despite little evidence of it being taught in public schools. Alysha "Aly Marie" Legge, candidate for county-wide District 6, was one of six school board candidates to speak at the forum, but the only one who spouted inaccuracies about Governor Ron DeSantis' recent book bans and CRT. Legge is involved in multiple right wing anti-vaccination groups and has taken a hard stance against CRT—a critical way of understanding how racism in America has shaped the country's history and public policy—from being taught in grade school.