Infuriated by the state Department of Education’s approval of a textbook that he felt was baised in favor of Islam, Florida state Sen. Alan Hays introduced legislation giving local school districts the power to choose their own textbooks.
The legislation was signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott last month and today Hays was the guest on “WallBuilders Live” to discuss his effort where he declared that the election of President Barack Obama is proof positive that our entire educational system is fundamentally broken.
Obama’s election, Hays said, “is an indictment of our educational system in this country,” explaining that “it’s because our students have not been properly educated that somebody with that kind of resume could even be considered a candidate, much less elected.”
“It’s an embarrassment to all of us,” Hays concluded and host Rick Green completely agreed, saying that Obama’s election “shows that we’ve dumbed down the education system to the point that our people do not now know to measure a candidate against the values upon which a constitutional republic can survive”:
