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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/ron-desantis-florida-rosa-parks-textbookIn Ron DeSantiss Florida, a Textbook Publisher Deleted Any Mention of Race in the Story of Rosa Parks
This is the creepy, fact-free world the Florida governor wants us to live in.
By Bess Levin
March 16, 2023
As youve undoubtedly heard by now, Ron DeSantis has a dystopian vision for Florida public schools that includes pretending LGBTQ+ people dont exist and teaching kids that white people have never done anything wrong. Because hes a massive bully who threatens retribution against anyone with a different worldview, some organizations have felt the need to go to extreme lengths to appease him and his f--ked up perspective. For instance: a textbook publisher that deleted any reference to race in a widely known story about Rosa Parks.
Yes, The New York Times reports that Studies Weekly, whose curriculum is used in 45,000 schools throughout the country, made a disturbing update to its lesson about Parkss historic Montgomery bus boycott. In the lesson thats currently used, segregation is clearly defined with text that reads: The law said African Americans had to give up their seats on the bus if a white person wanted to sit down. But in an updated version, its as though race doesnt exist at all. She was told to move to a different seat, it simply reads.
The company, according to the Times, made similar changes to a fourth-grade lesson about segregation laws that arose after the Civil War. The initial version refers to African Americans clearly and states how they were affected by Jim Crow. However, an update makes virtually no mention of race, and merely states that it was illegal for men of certain groups to be unemployed and for certain groups of people to serve on juries.
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Meanwhile, the conservative group Florida Citizens Alliance has reportedly urged the state to reject 28 of the 38 text books its volunteers have reviewed. The group apparently found too many references to slavery in a fifth-grade text book, and felt that an eighth-grade text book spent too much time on the negative side of the treatment of Native Americans, without providing a robust account of the bad things Native Americans did. While its not clear if the state will adopt the Florida Citizens Alliances recommendations, it seems the group has an in with people in high places: According to the Times, the alliances cofounders served on DeSantiss education advisory committee during his transition to the governors office.
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Earlier this year, Florida rejected an Advanced Placement African America studies course from being taught in its public high schools. And in January, DeSantis announced that his administration plans to defund diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at every public college in the state.
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In Ron DeSantis's Florida, a Textbook Publisher Deleted Any Mention of Race in the Story of Rosa Par (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2023
OP
As if people in southern Floriduh and the panhandle aren't stupid enough
SouthernDem4ever
Mar 2023
#3
Studies Weekly needs to be banned. Identified as being White Nationalists. Racists.
LiberalFighter
Mar 2023
#4
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)1. If it ain't white, it ain't right and white makes right is their thinking.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(7,927 posts)2. i dont even know what to say anymore
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)3. As if people in southern Floriduh and the panhandle aren't stupid enough
They will now make sure of it statewide.
LiberalFighter
(50,928 posts)4. Studies Weekly needs to be banned. Identified as being White Nationalists. Racists.
eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)5. "Those who do not learn from history are deemed to repeat it" ...
DeFascist wants Floridians to be ignorant of the Jim Crow era, and even slavery, so that when they come around again people won't recognize what's happening ... it's only going to work on his followers, which might be enough to tip the balance as long as GOPers keep their bloody grip on the levers of power. But the woke stay woke; they'll fight to the end, teaching the next generation what their textbooks don't dare to mention.
B.See
(1,237 posts)6. That was their intent ALL ALONG
You didn't really think "anti-CRT" actually had anything to do with CRT, did you?