Florida Goes Full Christianist In Training Teachers

The Washington Post reports:

New civics training for Florida public school teachers comes with a dose of Christian dogma, some teachers say, and they worry that it also sanitizes history and promotes inaccuracies. Included in the training is the statement that it is a “misconception” that “the Founders desired strict separation of church and state.”

Other materials included fragments of statements that were “cherry-picked” to present a more conservative view of American history, some attendees said.

In a possible effort to inoculate some Founding Fathers against contemporary political complaints, some slides in a presentation pointed out that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson repudiated slavery; unsaid is that both men held enslaved people and helped worked toward a Constitution that enshrined the practice.

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In trainings, Florida’s Christofascist fuhrer tells teachers that religion belongs in public life #RemoveRon #DeSantisDestroysFlorida https://t.co/XFVwy5QQfs

— Lesley Abravanel ? (@lesleyabravanel) July 2, 2022