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Students divided after returning to schools with Confederate names restored (www.bbc.com)

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[–] Fades@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

We really need to teach better in history class. THAT is where we need to stop removing things, not statues and dedications to traitors of the country

Did you miss the insane freakouts by conservatives related to critical race theory?? They refuse to allow history to be taught, it's not that we need to "do better" like we've made some mistakes, these are malicious purposeful actions.

They prefer to teach this kind of history:

The Florida Board of Education approved new social studies standards July 19 following a law passed by the legislature in 2022, known as "Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act" or the "Stop W.O.K.E. Act."

The law bans workplaces and schools from teaching that anyone must feel guilt based on their race as a result of actions by others in the past. Earlier this year, Florida rejected a new high school Advanced Placement course on Black studies.

The 216-page standards document covers a broad sweep of Black history, along with topics such as the Holocaust, world history and geography. It includes different standards for elementary, middle and high school students.

The part of Florida’s new standards that Harris was citing is for grades six through eight. It says:

"Examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation)."

The controversial part is in this "benchmark clarification" about slave labor: "Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/24/kamala-harris/do-Florida-school-standards-say-enslaved-people/

THAT is where we need to stop removing things, not statues and dedications to traitors of the country

I wholeheartedly DISAGREE. We do NOT NEED monuments to literal fucking traitors. Should we put up a goddamn statue of Benedict Arnold too?? Jesus Christ. Do black people really need to see the face of the oppressors of their ancestors every day?

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

My statement agreed with you, saying we should stop removing (or start including) uncomfortable lessons of history in schools, and remove the objects that as you say were put there long after the war not as a memorial but as a reminder (and a promise to go back if they can) of the oppression. I'm not sure how you read it as the opposite, I called them traitors.