For another year, Florida public school students will continue to learn that Black Americans in some way benefited from slavery.
On Wednesday, the Florida Board of Education approved the state's 2024 social studies standards, which include an African American history curriculum that has caused discomfort among the state's Black communities, who say some of the lessons "alter history" and are "inaccurate."
One of those inaccuracies, they say, is a benchmark clarification: "Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."
“I’m just baffled because I provided the Department of Education with language that would be less inflammatory and less inaccurate than that statement. It is unbelievable," state Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, told the USA TODAY Florida-Network.