In trainings, the State of Florida tells teachers that religion belongs in public life

[Nevilledog]

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — 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.

“My takeaway from the training is that civics education in the state of Florida right now is geared toward pushing some particular points of view,” said Broward County teacher Richard Judd, who attended the three-day training. “The thesis they ran with is that there is no real separation of church and state.”

The First Amendment prevents the government from “respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” which scholars widely interpret to require a separation of church and state.

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This framing is shit...."which scholars widely interpret to require a separation of church and state."

[SheltieLover]

1. Religion has no place in politics, imo, or academia!

[NewHendoLib]

2. ... and whose religion is that???

The hubris of the "my religion, not any others" crowd is breathtaking

[Nevilledog]

4. You know it only means their flavor of Christinsanity

[NewHendoLib]

6. Of course.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Absolutely

[sop]

3. DeSantis' reign of terror in Florida has been very good for litigation attorneys.

And for his presidential ambitions, burnishing his extreme rightwing religionist's credentials while getting a lot of free national media exposure.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Many of our right wing brethren want to put public prayer and the Bible back in the schools.

Many of our right wing brethren want to put public prayer and the Bible back in the schools.

They have no qualms about using the gov't to foist their own religious beliefs on the children in public schools without letting the parents decide how they want their children raised.

[In It to Win It]

7. How the fuck do we lose to these people?

[Brainfodder]

8. Years of brainwashing and civic pride of same and all the lying & $ spent on ads that work on fools?

Nutshell...

[Hekate]

10. I can hardly wait to see someone bring in sage and a gourd rattle

[Demovictory9]

11. Imagine what damage DeSatan could do as President