![]() Now, 18 years after her death in 2005, the publishing company Studies Weekly was competing for the lucrative Florida market in social studies textbooks. She refused to move, and marched into history. 1, 1955, for breaking a law requiring Blacks to surrender their seats to whites on a full bus and - whether full or not - sit in the back. Parks, a Black woman enshrined in the nation’s gallery of the greatest Civil Rights heroes, was arrested in Montgomery on Dec. It happened to a publishing company, too, aiming to teach the history of Rosa Parks in a weekly text lesson for public school children. ![]() But the penalties for violating them are so uncompromising - job loss or third-degree felony conviction - that fear of consequences has compelled a wide range of reactions from school boards, school administrators and teachers statewide. Taken together, the laws are not definitive. The bill also would ban teachers from calling students by pronouns differing from their birth sex, require teachers to prohibit girls from talking about their periods in school, for example, and restrict the way issues of sex and sexuality can be taught or even discussed, among other consequences. ![]()
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