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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.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 59 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Nobody is going to respect any kind of degree from these universities.

Why would you pay to go to school where your credentials will mean Jack shit to anyone?

What a joke.

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One wonders what will happen to these schools' accreditations, really.

I mean, if you're teaching something you call history and you don't teach students how to put the course content in its historical context and interrogate those sources critically, you're not teaching them history, you're indoctrinating them.

...tho to be fair, that's honestly what passes for US History in most US schools. The more history I learn, the more I realize most of us aren't taught

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I mean if you've been following the news on university leadership, I don't think Florida universities are the only ones in trouble

[–] butterflyattack@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

I mean, people paid to attend trump 'university'. There are always plenty of fools who will buy stupid shit. I kind of feel sorry for the students though. Most people are pretty young at university age and many are still forming their perspectives. Getting away from home and meeting new people is an important part of this. Plenty of people from conservative families go away to uni and start to see that they've been brought up on bullshit. This is an attempt to stop that from happening - the 'anti-woke' shit will attract more conservative students which will reduce the chance that any of them will encounter different views and cultures so they stay in their ignorance bubble. Don't want little Johnny or Jane coming home from school an anarchist! It's sad for the students though who will come away in massive debt with a useless degree and have less opportunity for healthy change.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Brain drain on a state-level.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Only if you go to a conservative Christian institution or workplaces, which is not many I can imagine.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

they do mention it's 12 public universities

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Right, because they're the only ones that the state of Florida has control over.

I'm not going to look it up to confirm, but I would guess that's all of their state universities.

[–] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

That's what Derpsantis wants, a state full of workers that have no choice but to fall into the labor and low rung office pool.

The elite DON"T want normal kids getting degrees, because then they compete (successfully) with their ignorant as shit trustfund crotchfruit.