The counter woke movement from Tallahassee is going too far according to some teachers who took the paid training program on civics designed to prepare students to be "virtuous citizens."
There's whataboutism, "we had less than 4% of the slaves and that number increased through birth", and "Wasington and Jefferson wanted to outlaw slavery". I would've added some material showing that the USA was late to abolish slavery.
>>Another slide quotes Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson saying they wanted legislation to outlaw slavery, without mentioning that both were slave owners. The quotes were not sourced, a theme that the educators noticed throughout the training session.
We were not told which documents stated this or how to find them just that they existed,” Ahlbum said. At one point, Ahlbum said, a state facilitator told a table of 12th-grade government teachers that their students will need the most clarity on socialism because “they think it’s the best thing ever,” which Ahlbum said isn’t true of her seniors. The assumption, she said, made it seem like students are “looked down on” because they have information state officials may not like or agree with.
Ahlbum and Segal reiterated that state standards aren’t controversial. Instead, their concerns regarded how facilitators instructed teachers to teach the material. For example, Segal said, the phrase, “all men are created equal,” was mentioned to explain the Declaration of Independence and later the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves in 1863. “But when you study historical documents within the time period that they were written, ‘All men are created equal’ refers to white, land-owning men,” she said.
I knew this was going to happen,” Jones said after reviewing some of the material. “They are very intentional about their approach and their selective history.”<<
This isn't surprising considering that the slides and training material were prepared by people from ultraconservative Hillsdale College in Michigan. The materials have many slides, which address misconceptions about the separation between church and state.
Teachers alarmed by state’s infusing religion, downplaying race in civics training
Actual slides:
https://twitter.com/anaceballos_/status/1542922753652793344?s=20&t=UW_CJixD9fH2plxm6sgstQ