Florida’s new Black history standards are misleading and offensive
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Florida’s Board of Education recently released new Black history standards. They require that middle school students learn “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied to their personal benefit.” The board also mandated that the high school curriculum for the 1920 Ocoee, Florida Election Day Massacre include “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.” The new standards, the director of communications for the Board declared, incorporated “all components of African American history: the good, the bad, and the ugly.”
Originally published: July 30, 2023
Author: David Wippman
Position: President
Institution: Hamilton College
Published by: The Hill