I live in Florida. I graduated from Melbourne High School in 1962. Under Principal B. Frank Brown, a progressive curriculum was offered which included Chinese, Russian, French, & Spanish languages, advanced mathematics, & advanced science courses. I was able to take an Asian history class where our book was written by the teacher, a den…
I live in Florida. I graduated from Melbourne High School in 1962. Under Principal B. Frank Brown, a progressive curriculum was offered which included Chinese, Russian, French, & Spanish languages, advanced mathematics, & advanced science courses. I was able to take an Asian history class where our book was written by the teacher, a dentist who was incarcerated by the Chinese in WW2. Our school was featured in Time magazine. We were rightly proud of our education system. (I must note, however, that in 1962, Melbourne was still segregated, so sadly this privileged public education did not extend to children of color.) This was 60 years ago. To see what DeSantis & others are doing to the education system here is criminal, & it is a blatant grab for money & power by using scare tactics that appeal to those fears of our citizens who are ill informed & believe the lies they’ve been fed for the last six or so years. I thought that Rick Scott was bad (& he was bad, not interested in the good of Florida & its residents, but wanting to be President, & not too scrupulous as to how he could make that happen), but DeSantis is worse. This vetting of the mathematical textbooks is a joke, except it’s not funny at all. Our education system needs improvement. We need to vote out these greedy politicians.
I live in Florida. I graduated from Melbourne High School in 1962. Under Principal B. Frank Brown, a progressive curriculum was offered which included Chinese, Russian, French, & Spanish languages, advanced mathematics, & advanced science courses. I was able to take an Asian history class where our book was written by the teacher, a dentist who was incarcerated by the Chinese in WW2. Our school was featured in Time magazine. We were rightly proud of our education system. (I must note, however, that in 1962, Melbourne was still segregated, so sadly this privileged public education did not extend to children of color.) This was 60 years ago. To see what DeSantis & others are doing to the education system here is criminal, & it is a blatant grab for money & power by using scare tactics that appeal to those fears of our citizens who are ill informed & believe the lies they’ve been fed for the last six or so years. I thought that Rick Scott was bad (& he was bad, not interested in the good of Florida & its residents, but wanting to be President, & not too scrupulous as to how he could make that happen), but DeSantis is worse. This vetting of the mathematical textbooks is a joke, except it’s not funny at all. Our education system needs improvement. We need to vote out these greedy politicians.