Republican Rep. Byron Donalds calls on the Florida Department of Education to 'correct' its new standards for teaching Black history, after it suggested that slaves benefited from skills used during forced labor.
."That being said, the attempt to feature the personal benefits of slavery is wrong & needs to be adjusted. That obviously wasn’t the goal & I have faith that FLDOE will correct this."with WINK-TV of Fort Myers, when he suggested the standards need"some adjustments."
Florida's Board of Education could work to"bring refinement," he said in the interview, to a benchmark on slavery that included teaching students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills.that was approved last week.opposed the new standards in a last-minute trip to the state last week, suggesting that"extremist" leaders were trying to"push propaganda to our children.
Asked about the standards, DeSantis suggested Friday that some slaves had"parlayed" skills used in forced labor"into doing things later in life" and said the standards were put together by scholars.DeSantis has also pushed back against Harris, accusing her of having gone down to Florida to"perpetuate a hoax."
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