‘The point is intimidation’: Florida teachers besieged by draconian laws

Teachers say they're feeling more disrespected, unappreciated and under attack than ever before by new laws championed by Governor Ron DeSantis

Adam Tritt, a high school English teacher in Palm Bay, Florida, was shocked when his school's librarian - eager to comply with Florida's new law restricting inappropriate" books in schools - removed one-third of the books on his classroom shelves, including a collection of Emily Dickinson's poetry that was not on her list of approved books.

Vivian Taylor, a seventh-grade teacher in Miami, says she was told to hardly discuss Emmett Till - the 14-year-old victim of one of the US's most notorious lynchings - in her civics classes because under Florida's year-old stop woke" law, people say you're not supposed to talk about that because it will make children uncomfortable".