Teachers in Coastal Hillsborough County Florida, they were given specific instructions about the content they couldn’t teach their students in public schools and colleges. Among those censored were books in English William Shakespeare‘hamlets‘ And ‘Romeo and Juliet‘.

Language and literature students, in this new school year they could only read certain excerpts that have no sexual or racial reference whatsoever.

This censorship is part of the Law on parental rights in educationpopularly known as the “Don’t say gay” bill and promoted by the ultra-conservative governor Ron DeSantis. What this law does is prohibits the installation of racial or gender identity issues in the educational curriculum.

But the measure has expanded so far that teachers are not allowed to say anything about gender or sexuality except in health classes, and even then there are restrictions.

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Last March, it was learned that Hope Carrasquilla, principal of a school in the Florida capital, Tallahassee, had been forced to leave her post for showing her 11- and 12-year-old students images of Renaissance sculptor Miguel Ángel’s “David,” which some parents considered “inappropriate”.

The “David”, displayed in the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, depicts the biblical king of that name naked.

“The teachers are scared. I mean they don’t know what they can and can’t do and they are so walking on thin ice when meeting the needs of the studentsRob Kriete, president of the Hillsborough County Teachers Association, told WSLN.

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DeSantis’ conservative law has also caused a nuisance for students.

a matter of Advanced Psychologywhich is used by high school students who want to study psychology at university, had to be removed from some schools. This is because the subject teaches LGBTQI+ and gender identity content, in academic terms, but that is much more than what education authorities can allow under the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

He University Council of the United States announced that the Florida Department of Education had “effectively banned Advanced Psychology from the state by instructing Florida superintendents that teaching fundamental content about sexual orientation and gender identity is illegal under state law.”

The academic authorities later reversed their decision to scrap the course, specifying that they can only teach the content they deem appropriate, which is a contradiction for some professors.

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“If we don’t teach all the content, our students don’t get credit. If we teach any content, our instructors are breaking the law,” a Florida education district explained in a statement.

Under the law, the state has the authority to remove books from school libraries and curriculum plans.

A single complaint from a student’s parent could result in a book being removed from Florida school libraries or having a book removed from the classroom under some of these new laws.

Ron DeSantis is currently a presidential candidate for the Republican party.