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A jaw-dropping assignment in a Florida public school district is peddling Donald Trumps lie that the presidential election he lost was rigged.
The assignment at R. Dan Nolan Middle School in Bradenton presented sixth-grade students with a fact: President Trump made claims that the 2020 election was stolen. But calling his claims false which they are would be an example of bias in the media, according to the lesson.
The media is often biased and will add words that persuade you to think one way or another, warned the assignment. The sentence stating that the former president made the election claims is just giving you information, it said, but calling the claims false leads you to believe he is wrong before you have all the facts.
The startling lesson was shared among school parents and ended up in the hands of Ron Filipkowski, a Sarasota attorney who quit a commission in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis administration two years ago in protest over his policies and now tracks conservative movements on Twitter and in the media.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/shocking-lesson-florida-public-school-163904621.html
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(24,610 posts)Frasier Balzov
(2,668 posts)live love laugh
(13,129 posts)Frasier Balzov
(2,668 posts)Subject-predicate number agreement would be something I'd expect a teacher or school administrator to abide by, whether conservative or otherwise.
Media *are*.
live love laugh
(13,129 posts)Media is what?
Frasier Balzov
(2,668 posts)The example implies that Trump isn't necessarily wrong despite a reporter's characterization that Trump's claim is false.
DeSantis's fingerprints are all over this sort of pedagogical infiltration by right-wing propagandists.