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.

  • wjrii@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I feel like a lot of STEM students completely miss out on this element of college.

    Nah, they’re all already much better writers than the English majors because they read Dune and Foundation, and they understand history better than the history majors because they pulled up like a million wikipedia pages while Call of Duty was installing, and they’re more attuned to the needs of the government than the poli-sci majors because they listened to three TED talks. ;-)

    Now, I’m mostly kidding. I know that most STEM majors write better than most English majors can do calculus; I’m just saying that I’ve known some engineers and doctors who confused that basic competence with mastery.