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, just graduated high school. He worked hard and was offered a full scholarship to University of Florida and considerable scholarships to the University of Central Florida and Florida State University. But in May, DeSantis signed three bills into law which thereported would “bring major change to Florida universities.” SB 266, for example, restricts which topics can be taught in general education courses, including theories regarding racism, sexism, and economic inequities.
“DeSantis has just launched this crazy war on our public university system,” Petocz, who has lived in Florida since he was one year old, said. “A lot of the programs that I would be interested in taking in college centering around [the] LGBTQ [community] and gender ideology. My personal major of choice, political science, has been under attack [too].”
Petocz made the difficult decision to turn away from the generous scholarships and toward his out-of-state choice: Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. With this choice, he leaves his family behind in Florida and will incur more debt than if he went to a Florida school, as his Vanderbilt scholarship is less financially helpful. And his plans for post-college revolve around his home state.
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