Board of education replaces course at 12 public universities with own US history curriculum, in latest ‘anti-woke’ attack

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.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
    34·
    9 months ago

    I’m confused why I’m being down voted when it really seems everyone agrees with my premise. It’s not my fault I’m pointing out how it’s perceived.

    They like to ‘Kill the Messenger’ here on Lemmy a lot, for some reason.

    Which is really not healthy for Lemmy in the long run, but that’s a whole other discussion to be had.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      47·
      9 months ago

      It’s a fundamental flaw of the vote system. Downvotes are just an “I disagree/I don’t like that/Boo!” button.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        It’s a fundamental flaw of the vote system. Downvotes are just an “I disagree/I don’t like that/Boo!” button.

        It’s not so much the button itself, but how it’s used, which is the problem.

        When it’s used as a weapon to attack someone, and not just for disagreeing with what they’re saying, is what I’m speaking towards. That irresponsible use of the button. That’s not healthy for Lemmy.

        Granted that button press, even when used responsibly, can mean different things two different people, which I think is what you were speaking towards.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
          37·
          9 months ago

          I say that the way it is being used is an inevitable result of its existence; a downvote button will always turn out this way. I don’t think you can have downvotes without it turning into an “I disagree/I don’t like that/Boo!” button. Hence, a fundamental flaw of the system.