I see the desperate are becoming a bit more desperate, much to the distress of educators in Florida:
Several South Florida high school educators are alarmed that a new state civics initiative designed to prepare students to be “virtuous citizens” is infused with a Christian and conservative ideology after a three-day training session in Broward County last week.
Teachers who spoke to the Herald/Times said they don’t object to the state’s new standards for civics, but they do take issue with how the state wants them to be taught. …
… trainers told Broward teachers the nation’s founders did not desire a strict separation of state and church, downplayed the role the colonies and later the United States had in the history of slavery in America, and pushed a judicial theory, favored by legal conservatives like DeSantis, that requires people to interpret the Constitution as the framers intended it, not as a living, evolving document, according to three educators who attended the training.
“It is disturbing, really, that through these workshops and through legislation, there is this attempt to both censor and to drive or propagandize particular points of view,” said Richard Judd, 50, a Nova High School social studies teacher with 22 years of experience who attended the state-led training session last week. [Miami Herald]
This is the sort of thing that can be hung around Gov. DeSantis’ (R-FL) neck if he runs for President in 2024.
But I appreciate the distress of the educators, and for that reason I suggest some billionaire step forward and fund a new school called, oh, maybe George Washington Corrective School. It would run during the summer months and supply school lessons that correct the mis-taught lessons propagated by the State propagandists.
For extra credit, they could provide specialists that would trace exactly why the traditional teachings are more accurate than the new State-led teachings.
DeSantis and his backers pissed? Too bad. Private enterprise. Parents enroll children for, say, $50 a head, with a need-based scholarship available.
Shameful lies like these really deserve a boot to the crotch.
