The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) National Park Service has implemented a lesson on slavery on its website for grades 7-9 that includes language similar to the Florida African-American History Criteria criticized by Vice President Kamala Harris. providing.
Harris previously criticized the African-American history standard approved in July by the Florida Department of Education (DOE), which teaches that slaves are the beneficiaries of slavery, even though it’s not in the curriculum. claimed to be. exists or have been proposed to. The DOI’s National Park Service Museum Management Program offers a curriculum on slavery drafted by high school teachers that discusses the “potential marketability” of slave-earned skills, according to a ministry report. It says. website. (Related: Black member of Florida Curriculum Board denounces Vice President Harris’ slavery allegations as ‘totally false’)
According to the DOI’s Parks Service website, the class, titled “Household Slaves: Acquiring Skills,” teaches “students to analyze objects and learn how house slaves can help them complete their assigned tasks.” Determine what kind of skills you need.” “Students explore the potential marketability of these skills. This lesson also introduces students to her 19th-century esophagus.”
Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course This bears parallels with the new kindergarten-to-high school standard adopted in Florida, in which slaves “learned professional trades and worked as painters, carpenters, tailors, musicians and healers” and “those I used my skills to feed myself and others.” Harris praised the AP course in January after the Florida Department of Energy blocked the college-level course for containing lessons on “queer theory.” according to to the New York Post.
The Florida-approved African-American Historical Criteria details the mistreatment of slaves throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. African-American heroes in American history and their “service and sacrifice” in “revolutionary times” are taught in this standard.
The Florida Department of Energy noted in July that the standards also include several historical references to African Americans, slaves, and their direct descendants.
Some have pointed out that the National Park Service’s language is very similar to Florida’s historical criteria. https://t.co/tk15g8XtWh pic.twitter.com/kwBjh72ZjE
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 1, 2023
DeSantis invited Harris to Florida on Monday for an “open and honest conversation” about the curriculum and a meeting with one of the leading academics in standards-making. The Florida Department of Energy announced in July that it was moving toward introducing African-American historical standards in state classrooms, despite pushback from the White House.
“Over the past few weeks, the Biden administration has repeatedly disrespected states and misinformed the American people about the education system,” DeSantis said in a letter to Harris. “Our state promotes the nation’s leading independent African-American history standard and is one of the only states in the nation to mandate this level of study on a subject of such importance. One would think that the White House would applaud such audacity in teaching a unique and important story of African-American history.”
DOI and the White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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