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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Abortion is bad enough, but Florida is also killing majors in doesn't like and altering courses to erase the sins of history.

Because, hey, slavery teaches valuable job skills!

Ben Sasse, the DeSantis pick for UF president, hides from the students because he is so unpopular on camps. He is on the record to slash majors and raise in-state tuition.  The NYTimes did a great piece on his slithery ways.

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I think I understand what you are trying to say, but can we just teach history, instead of “the sins of history”?[/quote]

What? History includes sins, mega sins, many times over. How do you teach any history without including the sins????[/quote]
That’s why Florida schools have taken out all the books about African American history.[/quote]

Why do you lie?  This is blatantly false. [/quote]

DP. Books about AfAm history have been challenged and removed - that is not a lie. Not just from Florida schools. A Texas school removed the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.

In Florida a group of Black churches got together to come up with a curriculum to teach African American history in church because of the new restrictions on what can be taught in public schools. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/24/florida-black-history-churches-teaching/[/quote]

This is what pp said... "That’s why Florida schools have taken out all the books about African American history"
And, it is a blatantly false statement.

Just to be clear, here are the standards for the teaching of African American studies in FL:
https://www.fldoe.org/academics/standards/subject-areas/social-studies/african-amer-hist.stml[/quote]

NP here.

I live in FL. My teenager's high school library currently has ZERO books available on any subject.

That's right: a public high school without a library.

Why? B/c staff could not review the books for compliance with the new laws (and also deal with the challenges to individual books).

So the net effect of the laws for my kid?

ZERO books on AA history AND ZERO books on every other subject.
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wow.. I'm OP, and that's why I stated that what's happening in FL regarding education is kind of scary.  A politician is dictating what should or should not be taught in schools. This is a politician. Not an academic.  It's purely Kids are being used as political pawns, and that is scary.[/quote]

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