Governor Ron DeSantis’s Year as a Schoolteacher

The New York Times wrote a great article about Ron Desantis’ year as a school teacher in between his Yale graduation and attending Harvard Law School. Unfortunately, it was at an elite private school, in which tuition now tops $50k/year, and not a public school, otherwise, he would have learned a lot more about the teaching profession.

The student body, however, had many students from progressive families which made for very spirited debates with the future governor. especially, in regard to the Civil War and abortion.

He was a brash 23-year-old Ivy League graduate, an athlete who made it clear to anyone who was listening that this sojourn at the Darlington School in 2001-2002, was a pit stop on his way to bigger things; maybe he would even be president someday, he told his students.

As a baseball and football coach at the school, Mr. DeSantis was admired and respected by his team. As a teacher, he was remembered by some former students as cocky and arrogant. He once publicly embarrassed a student with a prank and hung out at parties with seniors. The students thought this was inappropriate.

He was definitely a young cool conservative, total jock, very smart and charismatic, whom the girls admired and the boys envied. Overall most students found him likable but many did not agree with his politics.

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