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The updated standards on African American history instruction include “benchmark clarifications” to provide additional guidance to teachers on specific topics for instruction. One updated standard that has, in particular, come under fire directs teachers to include instruction on “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Not surprising coming from the "work will set you free" crowd. Florida is trying it's hardest to be 1930s Germany and I truly feel bad for the sane residents being dragged along for the enevitable crash
My mother lives there. We’re trying to get her out asap.
Florida, teaching people that the slaves liked slavery.
Let’s see how this plays out.
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