The Board of Education for the state of Florida approved a set of new curriculum standards for African American history as the state continues to be the epicenter of a nationwide debate over how to teach issues of race in the classroom.
The new standards require lessons on the cultural contributions of African Americans, the history of the slave trade, the Jim Crow era, and race massacres in Tulsa, Atlanta, and elsewhere. The standards also require middle schools to teach students about skills that slaves developed that could have been beneficial to them.The new standards come as the administration of Gov.
The governor and the Republican-controlled legislature have passed some of the nation's strictest bans on teaching critical race theory in classrooms. Earlier this year, the state blocked the College Board from piloting an AP African American studies course in Florida high schools because some of the concepts in the course included"black queer studies" and other concepts the state deemed in violation of state law.
The NAACP, which has issued a travel warning for Florida, blasted the new standards for conveying"a sanitized and dishonest telling of the history of slavery in America." The group particularly took issue with the notion that slaves developed beneficial skills. "Today's actions by the Florida state government are an attempt to bring our country back to a 19th century America where Black life was not valued, nor our rights protected," NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement."It is imperative that we understand that the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow were a violation of human rights and represent the darkest period in American history. We refuse to go back.
"It’s sad to see critics attempt to discredit what any unbiased observer would conclude to be in-depth and comprehensive African American History standards," Lanfranconi said."They incorporate all components of African American History: the good, the bad, and the ugly. These standards will further cement Florida as a national leader in education, as we continue to provide true and accurate instruction in African American History.
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