Ron DeSantis’s “Slavery Was a Good Thing” Curriculum Weirdly Unpopular Among GOP Hopefuls

As it turns out, teaching kids there were silver linings to being enslaved isn't a winning campaign strategy. Read the latest from besslevin:

Of course, at this point, the fact that DeSantis would defend this curricular absurdity is not entirely surprising, given that, earlier this year, he

the Florida Department of Education’s decision to ban the College Board’s AP African American studies course, claiming it lacked “educational value.” There’s also the uncomfortablearound DeSantis’s tenure as a private school teacher in Georgia, where he stuck out to students thanks to his unorthodox POV on the Civil War and slavery:…recalled Mr. DeSantis teaching Civil War history in a way that sounded to her like an attempt to justify slavery.

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