I gotta admit, stuff like this is exactly why we will never ever get along. I'm not shocked at these red state smear tactics at all.
The truth/fact of the matter is something similar to what they finger pointing at Desantis about was already being taught. I ain't even got any shame in posting topics like this is why red states are just better than what blue states/liberals/democrats/etc... got to offer. They ain't the best option, but at least they better than what any blue democrat ran state got to offer. This topic is just like when Stacey's fat azz lost to Kemp and ya'll claimed he lied, stole, cheated the elections by removing votes. Even though that's true he removed votes, ya'll democrat leaders (Zell Miller) and others were actually the ones to sign this nonsense into law and that's what you don't care for the masses to know.
DeSantis argues Florida's controversial new guidelines sound a lot like the College Board's.
time.com
Breaking Down the Controversy Over Florida's New Slavery Curriculum
The most controversial line in the
guidelines, approved July 19, says: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Yet DeSantis' team pointed out that Florida's language sounds similar to a section of the College Board’s
AP African American Studies class
framework. (The same class, in fact, that DeSantis
had threatened to ban in his state.) "In addition to agricultural work, enslaved people learned specialized trades and worked as painters, carpenters, tailors, musicians, and healers in the North and South," the College Board's framework reads. After they were freed, the framework continues, African Americans "used these skills to provide for themselves and others."
While the concept of discussing enslaved people's skill sets in a classroom setting is broadly accepted, scholars who contributed to the AP African American Studies curriculum tell TIME that the use of the phrase “personal benefit” is the main problem with the Florida standards
The AP course is designed to mimic a college class in a high school setting.
nypost.com
VP Kamala Harris backed national high school course about slaves’ ‘skills’ before Florida controversy
The College Board’s 2023 AP African American Studies course includes a lesson about slaves learning “specialized trades” that they used “to provide for themselves” once freed — recognized by Harris earlier this year as part of “American history.”
But just last week, Harris whipped up opposition against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over the
state Board of Education’s controversial African American history curriculum, which states that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Despite her support for the similar-sounding AP lesson, Harris branded Florida’s curriculum as an attempt “to replace history with lies.”
DeSantis has been attacked over a line in Florida’s curriculum that acknowledges slaves learned skills they used to benefit themselves.
www.nationalreview.com
AP Curriculum Touted by Progressives Also Includes Section on Slaves Learning Skills
The 2023 AP African-American studies curriculum released by the College Board, the body that oversees SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) testing,
argues that slaves learned “specialized trades” during bondage and parlayed “these skills to provide for themselves and others” once free.
In Unit 2 of the AP’s syllabus on “Slavery, Labor, and American Law,” a chapter on the slave economy
suggests that slaves learned to become “painters, carpenters, tailors, musicians, and healers” and subsequently “used these skills to provide for themselves and others.”
DeSantis has been widely criticized in recent weeks, including by Vice President Kamala Harris, over a singular passage in Florida’s
2023 social-studies standards which acknowledges that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Boi, I'm so glad I'm one of the few on this platform that ain't acting like ya'll. Like we all supposed to die as democrats.