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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Florida school guidelines can punish trans students and teach how slavery ‘developed skills’ for Black people

REUTERS

A new set of standards for African American history in Florida schools will teach middle schoolers how enslaved people “developed skills” that could be “applied for personal benefit”.

Another guideline instructs high schoolers to be taught that a massacre led by white supremacists against Black residents in Ocoee to stop them from voting in 1920 included “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.”

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