Whitewashing history: Florida schools to teach slavery brought 'personal benefit' to Black people
After a tense meeting, the Florida Board of Education unanimously approved a new set of standards for how Black history will be taught in the state’s public schools, ignoring protests from educators, politicians, and civil rights advocates who said the standards whitewash African American history. What drew the most outrage at Wednesday’s meeting was part of the middle-school standards that would require instruction to include “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit. Читать дальше...