The flashpoint cited by critics of the new standards, including Vice President Kamala Harris, is a line reading, “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”.
“I don’t know that the Department of Education can legally rewrite history,” said Jacksonville attorney Shannon Schott.
Schott said she’s in the very early stages of getting a legal challenge together and is currently looking for teachers, parents and students to sign onto a class action lawsuit.“Someone has to just kind of stand up and say enough is enough and if this is illegal, we need to know and we need to take action,” said Schott., is a line reading, “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”.
But those examples include many individuals who were never enslaved, most glaringly Betty Washington Lewis, the white sister of President George Washington.Nixon argued the inaccuracies in the statement call into question the accuracy of the standards themselves.On Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis appeared to try and separate himself from the controversy.
“I didn’t do it. I wasn’t involved in it,” said DeSantis in response to a question about the standards during a press conference in Utah’s State Capitol Friday.“He always tries to act as though he’s oblivious to what he’s said and what he’s done, but the truth of the matter is he appointed the head of the DOE,” said Nixon.
Action News Jax reached out to the Florida Department of Education for comment on the inaccuracies included in the workgroup members’ statement, but did not receive a response in time for this story’s publication.
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