Fri
Aug 18 2023
07:50 am
By: Mark Harmon
Guest Column for KnoxViews
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, or rather, Florida. The latest from the Land of Fearing Messages is that Hillsborough County (Tampa area) schools – afraid of the state’s broad divisive concepts and restrictive sex talk laws – have stopped required reading of entire Shakespeare plays.
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