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Ohioboy

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6. I'm glad we're letting them know they can't add this crap without us knowing

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Jul 26, 2023, 02:45 PM

Jul 2023

I've heard it argued that there is a lot of overreaction over this, that the rest of the 2023 Academic Standards For Florida are good, and that they teach a lot of good truth about slavery.

Great! Then why add something that even hints that slavery may have had a good side?

The controversy isn't over all the standards- just the bad ones they are trying to slip in.

Keep the good standards and don't add BS. That is all.

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Eugene Robinson: Florida curriculum on slavery is an obscene revision of Black history [View all] Nevilledog Jul 2023 OP

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I'm glad we're letting them know they can't add this crap without us knowing Ohioboy Jul 2023 #6

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