Rosa Parks’ Race Scrubbed From Public School Textbooks Submitted for Review in Florida
thewrap.comNew York Times reported Thursday.Studies Weekly’s existing lesson on Parks currently being taught to some Florida first graders states “The law said African Americans had to give up their seats on the bus if a white person wanted to sit down.” But the version recently submitted for Florida reviewers said “She was told to move to a different seat because of the color of her skin” – then updated a final time to say only “She was told to move to a different seat.”Florida is one of about a dozen states that approve academic texts above the district level.
One year after dozens of math books were infamously rejected in Florida, social studies books are now being scrutinized by a small army of academic experts, educators, political activists and parents.
Among the things they’re flagging is violations of the law signed last year by Gov. Ron DeSantis prohibiting the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.Studies Weekly publishes science and social studies materials used in 45,000 schools around the United States, including some Florida elementary classrooms.
The publisher said it was “trying to follow Florida’s standards, including the Stop W.O.K.E. Act,” the Times reported.The Florida Department of Education told the paper that Studies Weekly had “overreached,” adding that any book that “avoids the topic of race when teaching the Civil Rights movement, slavery, segregation, etc.
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