[thread] Florida Board of Education
Florida Board of Education Guidelines Imply Slavery Benefited Black People
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/florida-board-of-educations-new-guidelines-imply-slavery-benefitted-black-people
* FL Board of Education dictates how Black history taught in public schools
* implies enslaved African-Americans learned skills for “their own personal benefit”
* civil rights advocates: guidelines “sanitized & dishonest telling of history of slavery in America”
#HistoricalRevisionism #DeSantis #BlackHistory #BlackLivesMatter #FloridaEducation #GOP #neofascism
Addendum 1
re: Politics & racism:
Libertarian Party Thinks It’s OK to Tweet at Black People About Picking Crops
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110749205397291984
Compared slavery to affordable health care in attack on former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner
https://newrepublic.com/post/174485/libertarian-party-suggests-former-black-lawmaker-pick-crops-free
#LibertarianParty #racism #NewHampshire #BlackHisory #HistoricalRevisionism #BLM #GOP #BlackLivesMatter
Addendum 2
Florida Board of Education Imposes Strict Anti-Trans Bathroom Disciplinary Rules
Require termination of employees who 2x violate anti-trans bathroom law
See also:
No Labels’ Latest Recruit: The North Carolina Ex-Governor Behind the Infamous “Bathroom Bill”
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110532464003605711
Discrediting the Transphobic "Bathroom Predator" Myth
https://persagen.com/docs/transgender_bathroom_meme.html
Transphobia
https://persagen.com/docs/transphobia.html
#Florida #FloridaEducation #transphobia #BathroomMeme #DeSantis #CultureWars #neofascism
Addendum 3
Florida to Approve Classic Learning Test as Competitor to SAT
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/sat-alternative-florida-classical-learning-test.html
* accepted by >200 private/religious colleges, universities
* emphasizes Western canon, Christian thought
* 2023-05 DeSantis (R-FL) signed bill allowing public schools to administer CLT
https://persagen.com >> search: desantis AND "hillsdale college"
Education in Florida (L/R arrow keys to nav.; content fades in):
https://persagen.com/html/intro_01.html#/38/0/7
