The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for teaching African American history in the state.

The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for teaching African American history in the state.

  • @[email protected]
    22•1 year ago

    The Florida Department of Education says the new standards don’t teach that slavery was beneficial.

    However, one of the benchmarks (SS.68.AA.2.3) states students will be taught, “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

    Either this is some very unfortunate phrasing for establishing that people like Phillis Wheatley are required material (and even then it was less ‘thanks to’ and more ‘in spite of’) or something more nefarious is afoot.

    • Th4tGuyII
      14•1 year ago

      Don’t think I need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out the answer to that question

    • @[email protected]
      8•1 year ago

      Sorry, why are we giving florida right wingers the benefit of the doubt? In full context this is obviously nefarious.