Biff_Poindexter
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Concerns over sex content leads Florida schools to pull Shakespeare
A roundup of Florida education news from around the state
www.tampabay.com
"After Florida adopted its Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking standards in 2020, the Department of Education distributed recommended reading lists it said included “top of the line literary works with world renowned titles.” Authors on the high school list included William Shakespeare. Hillsborough County became the latest to take this step, telling teachers they could assign excerpts of plays such as “Romeo and Juliet,” but not the full text. “I think the rest of the nation — no, the world, is laughing us,” Gaither High teacher Joseph Cool said after learning of the directive. “Taking Shakespeare in its entirety out because the relationship between Romeo and Juliet is somehow exploiting minors is just absurd.”
Apparently, the initial concern was that there was fear to exposing children to minors engaged in sex and also, teen suicide.....but after the backlash, Florida decided that it was a mistake and Romeo and Juliet can be taught in schools....
"After weeks of wildly-varying interpretations, Florida has finally let school districts know that it doesn't think William Shakespeare's works should be removed from classrooms. On Monday, the Tampa Bay Times broke news that Hillsborough County teachers planned to teach only excerpts of his works, to avoid sexual content. That news shook social media and caught the attention of a multitude of national outlets, which further amplified the story. The next day, the Department of Education sent the Tampa Bay Times a clarification."
Florida clarifies that Shakespeare is OK for classrooms, but confusion still reigns
The Department of Education told the Tampa Bay Times "The Florida Department of Education in no way believes Shakespeare should be removed from Florida classrooms."
www.tallahassee.com
This constant desire to keep trying to revise history, whitewash education, has gotten just plain goofy. Good the backlash was swift and the correction was made just as swiftly....Too bad corrections aren't being made to the other bullshit that DeSantis is doing with Florida schools; like allowing Prager Fake University to do school curriculum for Florida students that is flat out propaganda... and requiring teachers to use it.....like this pathetically whitewashed Prager U video about Frederick Douglass..
I guess this means allowing students to read Frederick's "What Does The 4th Of July Mean To A Slave" is dangerous and they must be kept from actually reading Frederick Douglass and instead, watch these fun animations about a make-believe history to make their parents feel better...cool...why not do this about other parts of history like how what the US did to Native Americans wasn't that bad and in fact, justified because they were like savages and stuff...oh wait!