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.

  • tvarog_smetana@lemm.ee
    22·
    9 months ago

    It’s because education is sold as a way to get a job. Nobody communicates the value of being an educated person other than the salary one could potentially make.

    • GladiusB@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      I think it’s two branch to a tree. 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.

      • Ithi@lemmy.ca
        4·
        9 months ago

        My guess is it’s because it looks like your second sentence is saying education is useless when the people around you don’t value it.

        • GladiusB@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          Yea. Tell that to my life that has only benefited since I earned my degree. I have more interviews. I have more options. I earn more money and have more responsibilities. I guess that it’s valued by some, but it’s valued by me.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
        3·
        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.

          • 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
              3·
              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.