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Perhaps, but it isn't the only troubling item in there despite what @basso is asserting. Taken as a whole, it does appear to emphasis white...
I disagree with you. There is no logical reason to include that sentence or that idea. Why put that slaves gained any benefit in the course of...
The defenders of it can't even see why it's troubling.
I believe it is. That's what is meant by calling out how some slaves benefited from slavery.
It's certainly IN their, as well as clearly tools to mitigate blame.
While saying they developed skills is troubling, it's not what I am referring to - it's the rest of the curriculum. When reading through it, it...
Stop being lazy.
Acknowledge something is really bad, but put the blame somewhere else.
Kids should not be taught that there is any silver lining to slavery. You want to teach critical thinking, then talk about white privilege. If you...
They aren't trying to minimize that slavery was bad really, more that they are trying to minimize accountability.
Tell that to the AEC
So if I kidnap you and force you to fix my roof for free while you are in chains and I whip you to motivate you, but hey you learned how to fix...
No, it was white people who freed slaves, because the white people realized it was wrong, because they believed in liberty and saw that while the...
Seems to me you are the one firing off insults. I get that white-washing the evils of slavery and racism feels good, but that doesn't make it right.
Basically it's the narrative... The world was an evil place, and slavery was everywhere. But white Christian Americans were good people. Some...
The real question is - why do you care?
but but but @basso has a list!
You didn't pay attention, I went to the source material and went through the parts of the curriculum dealing with the civil war, slavery, and...
I went to the source material, and it's right there. Just because there are other mentions of slavery and other items doesn't mean teaching...
no, I read the curriculum instead of your propaganda link. https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/20653/urlt/6-4.pdf par for the course indeed.
