�Groomer�-obsessed Gov. Ron DeSantis partied with students as a 23-year-
old teacher

God knows what kind of under aged sex occurred?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has made �protecting� the state�s school-
age children from the �woke left� a major policy priority for his
administration. His press secretary Christina Pushaw has gone so far as
to suggest that anyone who doesn�t support the state�s Don�t Say Gay law
is �probably a groomer.�

But a recent New York Times investigation suggests that DeSantis himself
behaved questionably when he taught at a private Georgia boarding school
during the 2001�2002 school year.

According to the Times, several former students recall the then 23-year-
old DeSantis frequently attending parties with seniors while teaching
history at Darlington School.

�As an 18-year-old, I remember thinking, �What are you doing here,
dude?�� a former student said.

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Former students remember DeSantis attending at least two post-graduation
parties where alcohol was served.

�It was his first job out of Yale, he was cute,� one former student said.
�We didn�t really think too much about it.�

Last year, the blog Hill Reporter unearthed a 2002 photo of DeSantis with
three female Darlington students. One of the young women in the photo
appears to be holding a beer bottle, and the photo was reportedly taken
prior to graduation.

Another former student remembers seeing a memo reminding teachers that
fraternizing with students was inappropriate. ��That�s got to be about
Mr. DeSantis!� That�s what I remember everyone saying,� recalled 2003
Darlington grad Gates Minis.

DeSantis also made waves as a history teacher. His counter-factual views
on the Civil War were so notorious that students made a clip for the
school�s video yearbook mocking them. In the clip, a student imitating
DeSantis says, �The Civil War was not about slavery! It was about two
competing economic systems.�

�In history class, he was trying to play devil�s advocate that the South
had good reason to fight that war, to kill other people, over owning
people � Black people,� Danielle Pompey, a 2003 graduate, said. Pompey
also alleges that during her time at Darlington, DeSantis was �hostile�
toward her because she is Black.

Passed earlier this year, Florida�s Don�t Say Gay bill bans teachers and
schools from discussing gender identity and sexual orientation with
students in third grade and under and restricts such discussions in older
grades. Opponents of the law cite high suicide rates among LGBTQ youth as
a reason LGBTQ identities shouldn�t be treated as shameful, and they also
said that students being raised in LGBTQ households shouldn�t be forced
to hide what their family is like.

In defending the law, DeSantis has said that schools should not �have
pornographic materials.�

�Let�s focus on educating these kids. Let�s cut out the indoctrination,�
he said in August. �Let�s not worry about all this stuff that�s
inappropriate.�

While DeSantis has made education issues � including �critical race
theory,� a term that has become a catch-all on the right for any
discussion of the history of racism in the U.S. � central to his tenure
as governor, his campaign website does not mention his time as a teacher.