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Board of education replaces course at 12 public universities with own US history curriculum, in latest ‘anti-woke’ attack

Educators are warning that college enrollment in Florida will plummet after the state removed sociology as a core class from campuses in the latest round of Ron DeSantis’s war on “woke ideology”.

The Republican governor’s hand-picked board of education voted on Wednesday to replace the established course on the principles of sociology at its 12 public universities with its own US history curriculum, incorporating an “historically accurate account of America’s founding [and] the horrors of slavery”.

The board faced a backlash last summer for requiring public schools to teach that forced labor was beneficial to enslaved Black people because it taught them useful skills.

The removal as a required core course of sociology classes, which Florida education commissioner and staunch DeSantis acolyte Manny Díaz insisted without evidence had “been hijacked by leftwing activists”, follows several other recent “anti-woke” moves in education in Florida.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 58 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can we stop pretending we’re shocked? Please? Not in a resigned way, not like we’re just gonna let this new garbage happen. But let’s stop pretending Florida and Texas are normal. Like, at all.

And by “us” of course I’m referring to the corporate news media. Seriously, stop building up fascism. Kthx.

[–] FordBeeblebrox 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They fucking STOLE a whole presidential election (hence the projection from orange and co) and we’re supposed to treat them like a member of the Union? Texas thinks chili has no beans and wants to secede?

Bye Felicia

[–] laughterlaughter 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll say this as many times as necessary: No. Texas will remain in the Union, period. It's in the Constitution. Texas belongs to us. If Texans don't want to play by the rules, then yes, "bye, felicia" and fucking leave the U.S. But we get to keep Texas the land.

[–] FordBeeblebrox 4 points 10 months ago

Oh Uncle Sam has a lot of shit parked in Texas. All the big guys with “everything’s bigger” belt buckles can mosey on down to old Mexico, we’ll keep the highways and runways. Maybe connect it to the rest of the power grid