Florida Board of Education approves new Black history standards that critics call ‘a big step backward’
Florida Board of Education approves new Black history standards that critics call ‘a big step backward’
The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, sparking criticism from education and civil rights advocates who said students should be allowed to learn the “full truth” of American history.
The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, sparking criticism from education and civil rights advocates who said students should be allowed to learn the “full truth” of American history.
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The new standards require instruction for middle school students to include “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” a document listing the standards and posted in the Florida Department of Education website said.
My mom would talk like this; she had the displeasure of being raised by people that had Klan ties and was never fully deprogrammed. Absolutely terrifying.
They were actually just unpaid interns so it’s all okay, nothing to see here
And, unlike interns, they had access to free meals and a free sleeping place! Times sure were better back then!
/s
Unpaid internship is also pretty fucked up though (unless there’s a lot of mentorship involved)
I had a kindergarten teacher lie to us that her grandfather had a slave and he liked being a slave. I don't even know why she did that, but this reminds me of it. Just straight up bullshit about slavery.
She probably did it because it’s a really comfortable thing to believe, but it’s obviously bullshit so she just kept saying it to keep believing it
Yeah, but also it was the 1980s, so I don't think it was even possible even if she was really old (she seemed like she was, but I was 5).
What in the actual living fuck‽
Oh so it’s not just that activists and critics read that as saying “slavery was beneficial,” that’s just the plain reading of the law
Holy fuck. That is unbelievably backwards.