Florida approved new standards for African American history that state officials called “robust,' but critics said they will leave students with a whitewashed version that does not deal with the “ugliness of what has happened to Black people.'
Florida approved new standards for African American history Wednesday that state officials called “robust” and claimed address “the darkest part of our history,” but critics said they will leave public school students with a whitewashed version that does not deal with the “ugliness of what has happened to Black people” nor focus much on the last 150 years.at its meeting in Orlando after hearing from dozens of people, most of whom urged the board to table its vote.
But critics, many of whom noted they had read the standards, said they found too much missing or ignored. “We owe the next generation of scholars the opportunity to know the full unvarnished history of this state and country and all who contributed to it — good and bad,” read the letter by Equal Ground, the NAACP and the state teachers union, among others.Though Florida has required the teaching of African American history since 1994, the new standards — required under a 2022 law — are its first effort to specify what should be taught at each grade.
“Are you really insinuating that slavery could be personally beneficial to slaves?” said Clinton McCracken, an Orange teacher and president of the county’s teachers union. She and others said the standard seemed to equate Black residents in Ocoee defending themselves with the violence started by white residents angry that a Black man tried to vote. He was later lynched.
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