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.
@MicroWave
Remember when #Republicans were all about “the less government in your life, the better”?
They used to say things like “the government that governs least, governs best” and “You can’t legislate morality.”
Now they want to decide what books you can read & which bathroom you can use.
Everything they say is a lie to forward their goal of unopposable power and they aren’t very far from it.
We need to stop pretending that the words that come out of their mouths and hands have any meaning other than as a weapon.