Teachers alarmed by state's infusing religion, downplaying race in civics training (FL)

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It's terrifying to see the government impose white Christian nationalism onto our public schools. South Florida educators are being trained to teach lies. Separate church and state or lose our democracy. It's that simple.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, seen here signing the Parental Rights in Education bill in Shady Hills, Fla., is expected to sign the “Stop WOKE Act” limiting discussions about race in schools and workplace training.
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Teachers alarmed by state’s infusing religion, downplaying race in civics training
Several South Florida high school educators are alarmed that a new state civics initiative designed to prepare students to be “virtuous citizens” is infused with a Christian and conservative ideology...
11:37 AM · Jun 29, 2022

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article262941378.html

Several South Florida high school educators are alarmed that a new state civics initiative designed to prepare students to be “virtuous citizens” is infused with a Christian and conservative ideology after a three-day training session in Broward County last week.

Teachers who spoke to the Herald/Times said they don’t object to the state’s new standards for civics, but they do take issue with how the state wants them to be taught.

“It was very skewed,” said Barbara Segal, a 12th-grade government teacher at Fort Lauderdale High School. “There was a very strong Christian fundamentalist way toward analyzing different quotes and different documents. That was concerning.”

The civics training, which is part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Civics Literacy Excellence Initiative, underscores the tension that has been building around education and how classrooms have become battlegrounds for politically contentious issues. In Florida, DeSantis and the Republican-led Legislature have pushed policies that limit what schools can teach about race, gender identity and certain aspects of history.

Those dynamics came into full view last week, when trainers told Broward teachers the nation’s founders did not desire a strict separation of state and church, downplayed the role the colonies and later the United States had in the history of slavery in America, and pushed a judicial theory, favored by legal conservatives like DeSantis, that requires people to interpret the Constitution as the framers intended it, not as a living, evolving document, according to three educators who attended the training.

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1. This is a must read! It requires teaching Scalia/Alito version of the constitution; "originalism."

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