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Florida public schools will now teach students that slavery was just a kind of trade school that taught important and useful jobs skills to the less fortunate.

Florida's public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new African American history standards approved Wednesday that were blasted by a state teachers' union as a 'step backward.'

The Florida State Board of Education's new standards includes controversial language about how 'slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,' according to a 216-page document about the state's 2023 standards in social studies, posted by the Florida Department of Education.

Huh.

Maybe Florida will ask descendants for financial reparations for all that thoughtful education and training that so richly benefitted their ancestors.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-florida-s...

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