BackAgain
Neutronium Member & truth speaker #StopBrandon
The story is oddly formatted making it difficult to read.Over the past couple of years, Florida, led by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, has passed several controversial pieces of legislation.
The most recent was approved on May 29, 2024, which states that Florida's public schools will now teach a curriculum that claims Black Americans actually benefited from slavery.
You can't make this ish up folks.
Please tell me some of the benefits black rec'd from slavery.
But eventually you can find it. Their source is the national education association which claims:
Officials from the Florida State Board of Education recently released a new history standard that has caused an uproar in the education community. The standard includes controversial language that claims, āslaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.ā
Floridaās New History Standard: āA Blow to Our Students and Nationā | NEA
Florida's new history standards say that African Americans benefited from slavery. Florida educators, including social studies teacher Jorje Botello, are furious about it.
www.nea.org
Hm. Now the question becomes: what are they quoting? What is their alleged āsource?ā
Well, they donāt say.
But a little further digging led to this:
See: https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/20653/urlt/6-4.pdf
The full
Floridaās State Academic Standards ā
Social Studies, 2023 are simply a fairly well detailed and much more realistic set of educational objectives to better (and more accurately) teach the subject.
Taken very much out of context (as the OP predictably does), I confess it looks bad. That doesnāt mean that in some respects, it isnāt true.
If some nation takes us over and enslaves some of us and makes us learn skills we never had before, slavery is still awful. But that doesnāt mean we couldnāt have learned some new skills which ācouldā theoretically benefit us in certain circumstances.
Iām fine with the argument that the particular standard is maybe better left out. But there is very little valid reason to get all worked up about it.