Ron DeSantis condemned as Florida removes sociology as core college class

Source: The Guardian

Ron DeSantis condemned as Florida removes sociology as core college class

Board of education replaces course at 12 public universities with own US history curriculum, in latest ‘anti-woke’ attack

Richard Luscombe in Miami
@richlusc
Fri 26 Jan 2024 16.27 GMT
Last modified on Fri 26 Jan 2024 16.28 GMT

Educators are warning that college enrollment in Florida will plummet after the state removed sociology as a core class from campuses in the latest round of Ron DeSantis’s war on “woke ideology”.

The Republican governor’s hand-picked board of education voted on Wednesday to replace the established course on the principles of sociology at its 12 public universities with its own US history curriculum, incorporating an “historically accurate account of America’s founding [and] the horrors of slavery”.

The board faced a backlash last summer for requiring public schools to teach that forced labor was beneficial to enslaved Black people because it taught them useful skills.

The removal as a required core course of sociology classes, which Florida education commissioner and staunch DeSantis acolyte Manny Díaz insisted without evidence had “been hijacked by leftwing activists,” follows several other recent “anti-woke” moves in education in Florida.

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