Miami School Claim That Permission Slip Required To Study Black History “Nothing More Than a Political Ploy”
“state officials criticized the move, saying the policy is an ‘absurd’ interpretation of a state rule that they say is perpetuating a ‘hoax’ that students in Florida need permission to learn about Black history.”
Democrats and their media arm get more ridiculous by the day. Not content to lie about and misrepresent Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, even going so far as to claim that it bans saying the word “gay”!, they piled on about “book bans,” falsely claiming that Florida’s prohibition of kiddie porn in public school libraries, including in “cartoon” form, is a “book ban.”
Activist ‘teachers’ and their allies on school boards and districts immediately emptied their classroom bookshelves, cynically claiming that they were too scared to have any books in their classrooms. And they are apparently incapable of telling the difference between a book for third graders that depicts oral sex very explicitly and Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea. They know the law, but their goal is to politicize the issue and spread lies to the uninformed, so of course, activists in politics, the media, and assorted other Democrat groups happily helped them out by spreading “book ban” lies, even holding insane “banned books” events and putting up little libraries in front of their houses distributing kiddie porn.
This trend is now creeping into the weirdness that is “black history month.” Florida requires schools to teach American history, and this explicitly includes “black history,” but that hasn’t stopped teachers, schools, and districts from playing the same game they played with “don’t say gay” and nonexistent book bans.
Because it is a ploy. Black history is required teaching in Florida. Obviously, no permission slip is required to teach it.
It'd be like sending home a "permission slip" to teach math, reading, or writing and then capitalizing on the outrage.
And the @MiamiHerald, instead of… https://t.co/78ysFCDPdL
— Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) February 16, 2024
You aren't, because the story purposefully neglects the fact that FL requires the teaching of black history, and the underlying lie in this whole charade is that black history is somehow controversial in FL or would need a special permission slip. It doesnt. Here's a link to FL… https://t.co/HBvhQG23dZ
— Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) February 16, 2024
Florida, by law, requires the teaching of “black history” (as if that’s not the same thing as American history, but whatever), and these K-12 education officials are well aware of that fact, but they are claiming that they need parental permission to teach it in the classroom in order to score political points not just against Florida governor Ron DeSantis, but against all Republicans in this election year.
Ill-informed, incurious casual “news” consumers see this stuff and actually believe it, and that is all that it takes to get people outraged at ‘racist’ Florida and its ‘racist’ GOP dominance. It’s cynical, it’s being done for purely political purposes (there is no way on this earth that any of these teachers or other school officials actually believe this is needed given the actual Florida law).
Florida officials are pushing back.
After a Miami school drew attention for requiring parental approval before students could participate in a book-reading activity for Black History Month, Florida education officials went on the offensive, admonishing the principal and accusing her of engaging in “nothing more than a political ploy.”
. . . . The spat between the state and local school officials spiraled after a social media user on Monday shared a photo of a form requesting permission for students to “participate and listen to a book written by an African American.” The form described the guests that could attend as “fireman/doctor/artist,” but did not specify the book or author in question.
. . . . Coral Way staff sent those forms home because the school district’s attorney’s office determined that in order to comply with the Parental Rights in Education law, guest speakers require parental permission forms, said the district’s chief academic officer, Lourdes Diaz, at a Miami-Dade School Board meeting Wednesday.
. . . . But state officials criticized the move, saying the policy is an “absurd” interpretation of a state rule that they say is perpetuating a “hoax” that students in Florida need permission to learn about Black history.
Furthermore, at a press conference Thursday, Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz and Gov. Ron DeSantis singled out the school as an example of how some local school officials have “politicized” state laws that they say are meant to empower parents to have more control over what their students learn in school.
. . . . [Ben Gibson, the chair of the State Board of Education] said that the book-reading activity at Coral Way fell under the “routine curricular activities” and didn’t require parental permission.
“Obviously, it is wrong to interpret the rule to require parental permission for a student to receive ordinary instruction, including on subjects required by state law and Department rule. In fact, I am not aware of any school in the state that has interpreted the rule in this way,” he said. “This should be obvious on its face, and therefore, those providing guidance to you and your school are either grossly misinterpreting the rule or simply engaged in nothing more than a political ploy.”
Gibson copied Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Jose Dotres on the letter and asked him to “immediately review this matter and take appropriate action.” He also asked the principal to update the procedure to avoid “unnecessarily asking parents to grant permission where the student is simply engaged in regular on-campus learning.”
Obviously, Gibson (and DeSantis) are not saying anything that these officials don’t already know. The goal is to spread fear and outrage, not to educate children or to abide by perfectly sensible state laws.
[EDIT, FS: I replaced a link above to a Gays Against Groomers X post depicting explicit pornographic illustrations from Gender Queer when it was brought to my attention that the link went to a “This page doesn’t exist” warning. It shows on my browser when I am logged into X, but it does not show up when a use another browser in which I am not logged into X. The new link includes the images I intended to link. I would say NSFW, but hey, if little kids can see this stuff in their public elementary schools that seems a bit ridiculous.]
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Did Nathan get a permission slip from his estranged wife to rent cabins so often?
Is the history being taught real, or is propaganda? It is becoming increasing difficult to find unadulterated history.
Do they teach the history of BLM, their rioting, and assisted suicide of George Floyd?
Here’s a crazy, off the wall suggestion. Go online and research the curriculum or write to the school districts and see what their syllabi say. I know that might crush your belief that they’re teaching kids nothing but Afro-centric radical nonsense designed to indoctrinate a “kill Whitey” militia, but hey why let facts stand in the way of your fever dreams.
Every now and then I get a request for information. It isn’t really a problem to give a pacing guide or a unit plan.
And the paper they give you will always adequately, truthfully, and fairly describe what it is that they’re actually teaching. As well as what pronouns they use when referring to your own kid.
Well…mine will do all of that but the last part. It would be kinda odd to say “Here are the standards and plans for unit 6. I also refer to your daughter as she”.
You have no idea how much better you would be making parents feel these days.
History is always adulterated – because it is conveyed by human beings.
My immediate question was, who wrote this permission slip? I bet it is not a person that thinks parents should have input into their children’s education.
The wording and lack of specificity was amazing. Who was the author? What books would be discussed. If the activity was to be led by a white author would they have included that information or is the claim that white authors would not need a permission slip.
It is explicitly written to stir things up. That makes it a hoax. Like most major MSM reported hate crimes.
This is the Jessie Smollett of permission slips.
I came very close to entering this into the database at fakehatecrimes.org. But I demurred because although this was a hoax, no crime has been committed or charged.
This is the Jessie Smollett of permission slips.
It needs to be memed with a Subway sandwich (a cuban, of course) and a bottle of bleach.
Every single act of Dhimmi-crat agitprop, stunts and propaganda rhetoric must be understood as being transparently motivated by a desire to slander GOP officeholders, and, conservatives at-large.
Brazen deceit, obfuscation and deflection are the vile Dhimmi-crats’ stock-in-trade.
Yep. The leftists must manufacture the basis for their quest to resist b/c there’s not much remaining that they haven’t gotten their way. The ‘race’ angle is the most pernicious. They know damn well that the USA in 2024 is a far cry from the USA in 1974 much less 1924. Because so much grift, corruption and raw political power rests upon the shaky foundation of race/tribe they gotta continually create race hoax events. See Jussie Smollett. See Michael Brown/Ferguson MO ‘hands up don’t shoot’ BS claims.
I would use 1984, CommoChief.
Because around 1984, the Black Panthers had become a nothingburger.
Around 1984 David Duke was a joke.
Around 1984 even NAZIs (Illinois one, anyway) were a movie joke.
After 1984 I saw lots of mixed couples.
And, while Affirmative Action was well underway, almost no one I knew on either side of the line thought much about mixing in any way, or that anyone was really lesser because of their color.
Yeah, we’ve now come a looong way from that.
If I ran into a tiny Libra in front of a house or wherever and they had pornography in it, I would first ask the “owner “ if they were aware, if they were aware, so
Show that tiny little library would find itself in need of repairs
You create rather odd scenarios where you can play the hero.
Pot meet kettle…with your cosplaying a white knight on this site.
Left: “OMG! Authoritarian Floridians require students to get permission slips to attend BLM activities!”
Normal people: “Schools require permission slip for *every* external activity. So what are you screaming about?”
In order to have a history, a nation needs two things: a written language and a calendar.
No sub-saharan black nation had either of these.
Black history does not exist, yet we devote an entire month to this non-existent thing.
Erronius
Oh, black history exists… HERE, if absolutely nowhere else. Much of the rest is Wakanda fantasy.
let’s not get crazy. Black history, as it were, is nothing even remotely akin to math, reading, or writing, when it comes to elementary education. Black history month, essentially, has been nothing but a big joke that everyone giggles about as they are force fed George Washington Carver and Martin Luther King until they vomit.
“Black History Month” is, itself, an affront to the intellect. Next thing you know we’ll be forced to give an individual American a federal holiday for doing, basically, nothing, when tons of the most important Americans in history (the history of humanity) get NO HOLIDAY or mention of any sort … and then they’ll shove something utterly retarded like “Juneteenth” down our throats. That really says it all, I think.
I’m 66. We didn’t need a month to learn about “black history”. We learned about slavery and indentured servitude. We learned about the Underground Railroad, GW Carver, Rosa Parks, MLK and others. Alongside the many people of various races that made this country. Politicizing every aspect of education is a communist hallmark. And that is where we are at today. The teachers unions are the death of education in America. If there is one place that needs to have the unions broken, busted, it’s education. FJB
There was an addendum to the Rosa Parks story that they don’t include in the coursework … she was the victim, in the 1990s, of a violent home invasion by a usual suspect. None of her self-proclaimed, loudest fans cared even the least bit. It was a non-story. In fact, if you ask most blacks or leftists about it I would bet that less than 10% even know the story … or care.
Unless there was something more to the permission slip than posted I thought it was fine. Parents should know who is showing up in the schools to lecture or give a speech such as gay right advocates, drag queens etc. I didn’t, however, see any mention of books.
Or exactly who it was who was showing up in school.
Who’s showing up to speak on career day?
“A manager of a franchise restaurant.”
Cool! What’s his name?
“John Wayne Gacy.”
Suddenly, that changes things.
So, who really did show up there to read from their work? Ibram Kendi? Mireille Miller-Young? Angela Davis?
Sounds like there’s a teacher using students to advance a political agenda. Maybe the state shouldn’t allow teaching licenses to be held by people who will use a student to advance a political agenda.
If the left is going to disbar out lawyers – and it’s clear from their behavior that they are enthusiastic to take such acti0ns – then maybe we should retaliate in our new war of professional licensing. Just sayin’.
Well this explains a lot. Parents obviously neglected to fill out permission slips allowing their children to be competently taught, math, reading and writing.
And people still send their children to government schools with teachers unions.
permission is needed on many subjects
if you pay the teachers directly these issues would go away as
it would already be stated in a binding legal contract what is going to be taught
no surprises
no unions
no middle women
just parents students teachers
You’re an inarticulate moron.
Inarticulate, yes. Moron? I’m not so sure. I can often get an idea of what destroycommunism means to say, and it often makes sense. I wonder whether the problem is simply that English is not his/her first or even second language.
From the telltale language traits, I suspect two or three posters here have Russian as a first language. Which, for someone looking to “destroy communism” isn’t at all a bad credential.
I personally do not see anything wrong with a permission slip for attending a lecture by a VISITING speaker. However, they do not say who it is or what the talk will be about so permission would be granted in the dark. I would not want my children to listen to a Communist or Muslim telling them what is wrong with their country.
Bingo. This is how you know it’s a sham.
Field trip needs your permission trip. Sign here and return.
Hey, exactly where are you taking the kids on this trip? It doesn’t say.
Oh, didn’t we? Introductory skydiving class.
A mental skydiving class, without a parachute.
(Akin to someone whose mind is so open their brain falls out.)