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.

  • spider@lemmy.nz
    2·
    4 months ago

    college educated voters were more likely to vote Republican (including 20-30 years ago)

    And don’t forget, Eisenhower was a Republican:

    The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country’s military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy…The expression gained popularity after a warning of the relationship’s detrimental effects, in the farewell address of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961.

    source

    • chaogomu@kbin.social
      2·
      4 months ago

      Don’t forget that Eisenhower basically built the MIC.

      But the main point is that conservatives were not fully aligned with the Republican party until the election of Nixon.

      And the religious conservatives took control of the party under Reagan. That was the point of no return.

      • girlfreddy
        1·
        4 months ago

        When Falwell saw that racism couldn’t be a wedge issue anymore, he headed over to abortion. And voila! here stands America - land of the indentured and home of the unhoused.