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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Sep 3, 2022, 08:59 PM Sep 2022

Shocking New Lesson In Florida Public School Boosts Trump's Election Lie

A jaw-dropping assignment in a Florida public school district is peddling Donald Trump’s 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.




https://www.yahoo.com/news/shocking-lesson-florida-public-school-163904621.html
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Shocking New Lesson In Florida Public School Boosts Trump's Election Lie (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 OP
When are the adults in Florida going to take back their State? OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2022 #1
Media is? Frasier Balzov Sep 2022 #2
Media is ... what? live love laugh Sep 2022 #3
This was something produced by the school system. Frasier Balzov Sep 2022 #4
I'm asking what the media has to do with this issue. live love laugh Sep 2022 #5
The school is doing its part to "heighten awareness" of bias in news reporting. Frasier Balzov Sep 2022 #6

Frasier Balzov

(2,644 posts)
4. This was something produced by the school system.
Sat Sep 3, 2022, 11:52 PM
Sep 2022

Subject-predicate number agreement would be something I'd expect a teacher or school administrator to abide by, whether conservative or otherwise.

Media *are*.

Frasier Balzov

(2,644 posts)
6. The school is doing its part to "heighten awareness" of bias in news reporting.
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 01:02 AM
Sep 2022

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.

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