Florida Board of Education approves new Black history standards that critics call 'a big step backward' | CNN
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The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, sparking criticism from education and civil rights advocates who said students should be allowed to learn the “full truth” of American history.

The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, sparking criticism from education and civil rights advocates who said students should be allowed to learn the “full truth” of American history.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    Growing up in Ohio we learned a ton about slavery because we were one of the biggest “good guy” states in the fight against it. We even had field trips to Underground Railroad Museums.

    Which makes the number of confederate flags in the state all the more infuriating

    But yeah Nat Turner showed up in like a sentence in the John brown paragraph.