Florida man destroying Florida education

In today’s episode of Life During DeSantis, Florida schoolchildren will be taught that ACTUALLY chattel slavery — unlike, say, the real slavery of a progressive income tax — has its upside:

The Florida State Board of Education approved new rules Wednesday for how Black history will be taught in public schools that critics are decrying as a “step backward.”

The updated standards say students should learn that enslaved people “developed skills” that “could be applied for their personal benefit,” and that in teaching about mob violence against Black residents instructors should note “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.”

“These standards are a disservice to Florida’s students and are a big step backward for a state that has required teaching African American history since 1994,” the Florida Education Association (FEA), the state’s largest teachers union, said in a statement.

The standards are the latest development in an ongoing debate in Florida over how Black history should be taught in school. Earlier this year, the education board rejected a new Advanced Placement high school course on African American studies, arguing it lacked “educational value,” igniting protests and outrage.

You know, I’m beginning to question the assertion of Brother DeSantis’s great friend and political ally Cornel West that his education policy is driven by wanting students to read Plato.