FL basically wants to teach kids that slavery was "job training"

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/19/florida-black-history-standards/

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The Florida State Board of Education approved new rules Wednesday for how Black history will be taught in public schools that critics are decrying as a “step backward.”

The updated standards include noting that enslaved people developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit,” and that in teaching about mob violence against Black residents instructors should also note “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.”

“These standards are a disservice to Florida’s students and are a big step backward for a state that has required teaching African American history since 1994,” the Florida Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, said in a statement.

The standards are the latest development in an ongoing debate in Florida over how Black history should be taught in school. Earlier this year, the education board rejected a new Advanced Placement high school course on African American studies, arguing it lacked “educational value.” Under Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s leadership, the state legislature also passed a law that forbids teachers from offering instruction that makes other students “feel guilt” because of actions committed by others in the past.

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This is despicable.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Well sure. Assuming, you know, the job was to be an unpaid, captive slave that made $$$ for owners

That's exactly what it was.

[Grins]

2. Give me another reason why...

Give me another reason why I will never visit (much less live in) Florida….

[Hekate]

3. This makes me physically ill

[Biophilic]

4. This is so amazingly f'd up.

Really? Job training? I just don’t have words. How do they keep a straight face? And what a disservice they are doing to their kids.

[lapfog_1]

5. This is never going to stop

until the people that push this crap are enslaved and made to live like the slaves of White Plantation owners.

10 years...

Have their children taken and sold on the auction block. Whipped by the overseer. maimed or killed for not performing.

Then 10 more years of being 2nd class or 3rd class citizens...

Maybe then they will think different about how to teach our history.

Probably not... but just maybe.

[Disaffected]

6. Hey, Hitler got the trains running on time (or so they say).

What's not to like??

[tableturner]

7. Job training: How to get beaten, raped and murdered...such GREAT educational value!