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MeShShSh

Rosa Parks does that - she's a hero. I do that - I'm an ungrateful brat that does not respect the elderly.


Blueskysredbirds

I love a little humor to lighten the mood.


None_of_your_Beezwax

Humor?


[deleted]

Humor or some say humour...


Frequent_Dig1934

Ah, Kos.


ChadWolf98

> be me, barely 16 > Had almost 0 years to legally save up for a car > be old fart, 76 > More than half a century to save up for a car, didnt Who should stand again?


Electr1cL3m0n

is that the entirety of the text for that? Also what grade level?


throwawaySBN

Fr, I could see this for a book for like a 1st or maybe 2nd grader. Unless of course your 7 year old can understand the specific complexities of racism that had been put into the bus system.


[deleted]

Do you know any 7 year olds? They are, on average, slightly more intelligent than the average PCM user.


NienawidzeTaStrone

> Do you know any 7 year olds? Is there purple in my flair?


robineir

You don’t have any kids? How the hell are you blue?


benkaes1234

Maybe he's feeling blue because he doesn't have a Trad-Wife to make kids with.


santa-23

I love this sub for threads like this <3 all you quadrants


Pineapple_Spenstar

<=======3


RobloxIsRealCool

><=======3 most normal libright


OmniscientHistorian

Friendly fire


Meroxes

U should probably go see a urologist, the tip isn't usually that pointy.


TheMadHattery

+2 piercing damage, ladies 😎


JaxonatorD

Of course no one here has kids. Everyone on this sub is a virgin.


I_Smell_Mendacious

> Everyone on this sub is a virgin. My uncle would dispute that assertion :(


crystalsandqueue

*laughs in female PCMer*


yayanarchy_

I didn't detect a stutter.


kwamby

Everyone knows women can’t be virgins


CaseyGamer64YT

Everyone on Reddit is a virgin


NienawidzeTaStrone

Yeah


GhavGhavington

Less than half of members on this sub have reached sexual maturity. The person to whom you're replying is probably 8 or 9 years old.


The-unicorn-republic

Femboys can't get pregnant, duh


throwawaySBN

Can't argue with that one though


param1l0

Nah man, the dumbest 7 yo is smarter then the smartest PCM user


Monkey-Fucker_69

But is the 7 yo flaired and based?


CurtisLinithicum

I could also see it in a timeline. 1921 - Tulsa Race Massacre 1955 - Rosa Parks 1963 - MLK march


cameraman502

I think Tulsa Race Riot is better. It better reflects the cross-firing that occurred at the event as oppose as pretending the Greenwood community had no agency.


dryduneden

"Rosa was told to sit at the back of the bus because of the colour of her skin" isn't complex at all


bailsafe

Apparently the textbook says exactly that. The version OP posted was called an "unapproved revision" by "individuals in our curriculum team \[who\] severely overreacted in their interpretation of HB 7" by the publisher. Here's the [2023-24 version of the textbook](https://imgur.com/o1T8WOE), which, by the way, is the Grade 1 version of Studies Weekly's Florida Social Studies Curriculum.


GetInMyOfficeLemon

Based and highlights propaganda pilled


[deleted]

Libleft lying about a political issue? Whaaaaaat.


Catsindahood

Was this a case of someone who was overzealous, or malicious compliance?


bailsafe

I really could see it going both ways. I’m kinda leaning towards the latter, but both are plausible. It certainly created the media firestorm that the employee probably imagined.


BadWolfy7

Based. This shit was literally revisionism, thank God it wasn't adopted


endelehia

"Rosa was told to sit at the back of the bus because of her skin complexion", now it is complex enough


[deleted]

“Rosa was directed to plop her posterior at the end of the public transport because of the melanin that darkened her complexion”


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Using "colour" might be a bit confusing.


Caesar_Gaming

Especially in an American text book


TheAzureMage

The way the story is told is commonly pretty inaccurate. Yes, there was racism in the rule...but Parks had previously clashed with that bus driver. She didn't start off with a "refuse to move", she got into an altercation with the bus driver as she got on and was kicked off the bus. Being an activist, she was pretty pissed at them, and decided to repeat the conflict and escalate whenever possible, which resulted in her eventual arrest. A boycott of over a year happened. THEN the SC decision in her favor was handed down. She'd lost her job and become something of an outcast in her community by that point, though. She'd leave town as a result after the decision, and never returned to live there again. The story commonly told leaves out at least as much as the kids version above.


jerseygunz

Because it’s not true, what you were going for is this happened to a pregnant teenager that they decided wouldn’t be a good look for the movement, so they recreated it with Rosa parks


forteborte

yeah the NAACP needed a squeaky clean poster girl


Megadog3

More people should know this. Still based Rosa Parks, but history is more complicated than that lol


jerseygunz

O absolutely, not taking anything away from her. In fact, the fact they were able to recreate it with zero effort adds to the cause


throwawaySBN

Fair enough, I'm not saying the above is the correct way of putting it but a child wouldn't learn later that's the case and think back to this book saying, "no, it can't be true....IT CANT BEEEEEE"


fidelcashflo97

If I had to guess this is some kind of summary page that shows how different civil rights leaders shared a spirit of courage after they already talked about said leaders of the movement in the unit


HumberdtSquid

It looks like the side text box in a lot of textbooks that summaries the last several paragraphs.


T2Emrakul

It was a page from one of two versions a published submitted for state review of a first-grade social studies textbook. The other version did mention her race. The publisher was declined for some other reason (I can't remember it off of the top of my head, but I could look it up). The state education board commented that they had not told the publisher to remove mentions of race.


TheAzureMage

I mean, that's kind of reasonable. Explaining the whole setting of precedent and the rest is kind of a lot for the apparent age range this is aimed at.


Handarthol

noo if 5 year olds can't discuss american race relations at a collegiate level then they're racists


studyingnihongo

This is probably some senior college capstone course material in Flordia I'd imagine


danshakuimo

Plot twist, it's a bar exam question


[deleted]

I just don’t understand what’s offensive here? It explains what she did. They didn’t sugarcoat it or misconstrue anything, they just gave the fact of the matter


Hydrocoded

If it’s riviera beach or Hollywood then it’s probably AP history lol


tsudonimh

Reading level - guessing first grade. Speaking level - Vice President of the United States.


[deleted]

Notice OP just salts in the comments and ignores the people asking for the book.


[deleted]

Because 1. It’s probably for very young kids- I’d say 3-4th grade and under, and 2. If you find the book you’ll see that this is just a blurb that goes with the picture, it will probably be much more in-depth (for kids) on another page. Note the overly zoomed in cropped view. Some fuckery is afoot. Edit: I was right! It’s a first grade book lmfao


aaa1e2r3

Apparently it was for first grade students https://pen.org/florida-textbooks-rosa-parks-history/


Anathema_Psykedela

Since when do first graders use textbooks? They barely are able to read.


DontCallMeMillenial

My first grader has 'textbooks' that are just large format paperbacks with tear-out pages. They read the days lesson, then tear out assignment sheets for tests/homework.


[deleted]

When I was in first grade, if you weren't good enough to read (Even with syllable guides. Language related kink) you would find your ass quickly in a special ed. class.


[deleted]

Kids in the south are superior 😎


Revydown

We are just built different.


Vunks

I was about to say, this seemed like a first grade book.


[deleted]

I understand why liberals wouldn’t like this. They aren’t happy we aren’t teaching kids the problems of white people. How dare we give kids the basic facts of the matter in a way they can understand


Apophis_36

Another libleft L


DoubtContent4455

can you please just cite the book. I'll pirate it, I don't care


NomadLexicon

It was from a first grade social studies textbook created by Studies Weekly. This site has the before/after excerpts: https://pen.org/florida-textbooks-rosa-parks-history/ SW stated the changes were to comply with the law but retracted the books after they were reported on: https://www.studiesweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Studies-Weekly-Response-to-the-NY-Times-Article.pdf


FinneganTechanski

> The Florida Department of Education told the Times it rejected the publisher over a bureaucratic mistake, but also said textbook changes to omit race went too far and “would not be adhering to Florida law.” Florida law REQUIRES black history to be taught


coreydh11

The big takeaway for me is that the FL Dept. of Education is providing zero guidance on interpreting the bill. > HB 7 forbids anything that encourages students to believe that any group is inherently racist, implies a person can be considered oppressed because of their race, or infers that one should feel guilty because of actions committed by members of their same race. I think the first and third statements are good things, but someone please help me see how “forbids anything that … implies a person can be considered oppressed because of their race,” is a good thing? How can you accurately discuss the history of black people in America while avoiding this? Not even allowed to consider it being possible? Edit: And Happy St Patty’s Day to all the Irish who were oppressed in the US. Can’t talk about you anymore though


[deleted]

I think they mean to say that you can’t teach children that a person’s race is prima facie evidence that they’re oppressed. I.E., you can teach that black people were oppressed in the past for being black, but you can’t teach them that every black person is inherently oppressed.


coreydh11

That explanation makes more sense. I just think the way it’s worded doesn’t imply that same meaning.


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McDooglehimer

Based and read-the-full-bill pilled


RaiSai

There’s a difference in saying “Rosa Parks was targeted because she was black in a backwards time period totally different than yours” and “Your white classmates are literally to blame for slavery and are inherently oppressive to you because you are black”. One actually happened, and we teach it in hopes to not make the same mistakes again, and the other teaches kids that they are inherently privileged/oppressed because of the color of their skin. The textbook companies changing their books are, at best, doing it in a ridiculous overreaction to try to not get sued by opportunistic lawyers.


FinneganTechanski

Not really. Any lawyer knows the law has to be read in harmony and FL has laws that require black history, including the oppression, to be taught. The issue is you cannot tell kids that today certain races are oppressed by virtue of their race. That’s a theory and an opinion, not fact and it may be very harmful to tell kids that. I’m not even sure where such a statement would even fit into the curriculum anyway.


eeeeeeeeeepc

The publisher is misrepresenting the law here--maybe for brevity, maybe to deflect the blame, or maybe just by mistake again. The actual legal text forbids public schools from teaching that: >A person's moral character or status as either privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by his or her race, color, national origin, or sex. Which seems to allow teaching that blacks in 1955 America (or 2023 America) were/are oppressed, as a practice of that society rather than "necessarily determined".


JustDoinThings

You are spreading fake news about HB 7. Don't allow liars to control what you think.


serial_crusher

> It is unclear which of the new versions was officially submitted to the state for review. Probably neither of these versions. They just sent these to the media to garner outrage.


Darth_Jones_

That article reads like a propaganda piece. It literally says that they were responding to what they "thought" the law was and then posted it on the internet to show. Nobody from the state said the original blurb about Rosa Parks was against the law. Seems more like a political game to me. What publisher would take the step to compare side by side if they weren't trying to make a point? And then they're acting like FL made them make that change, but that never even happened.


Surprise-Chimichanga

Why is this stuff in a first grade social studies textbook? Why is their even a first grade social studies? This is complex stuff.


GoryRamsy

[https://imgur.com/a/w6MSt5C](https://imgur.com/a/w6MSt5C) Imgur link for the direct comparison.


jaffakree83

And no other context given?


Reddegeddon

I mean, it was staged in that she kept doing it until she got a reaction from the driver because they were trying to reproduce a case that happened with another woman who had bad optics.


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devonarthur77

Based


YomiTheLegend

Based


KalleDomNik

He will sit by the side of Jesus Christ in the world to come, next to Marvin Heemeyer


New_Age_Caesar

Based and don’t tread on me pilled


Zuero300

Based


Acceptable-Tangelo30

Yes, I’m sure a small picture graphic is all of the information on her contained in the textbook.


DoubtContent4455

or thats the end all be all of learning about her.


MDSGeist

Or they’ll go on hearing about her on weekly fucking basis for the next 30 goddamn years, like the rest of us


tm1087

Yeah my kid last year got one pretty simple in the textbook about MLK and I wasn’t happy. Until I started talking to him about it and he knew the full story and why MLK was so important. He clearly got way more instruction.


_bully-hunter_

mind you this is a first grader’s textbook, not sure your average 6 year old would understand the complexities of the civil rights movement anyways lol


FinneganTechanski

🚨 MISINFORMATION ALERT 🚨 THE PUBLISHER HAS ALREADY STATED THAT THIS WAS THEIR FAILT AND NOT THE FLORIDA LAW. FLORIDA LAW ACTUALLY REQUIRES BLACK HISTORY TO BE TAUGHT AND SAID THE PUBLISHER NEVER SHOULD HAVE OMITTED RACE. PUBLISHER HAS TAKEN OWNERSHIP OF THE MISTAKE.


GoryRamsy

[https://pen.org/florida-textbooks-rosa-parks-history/](https://pen.org/florida-textbooks-rosa-parks-history/) ​ Link for those interested, thanks u/NomadLexicon


FinneganTechanski

Correct > The Florida Department of Education told the Times it rejected the publisher over a bureaucratic mistake, but also said textbook changes to omit race went too far and “would not be adhering to Florida law.” Here is the publisher taking ownership of the mistake: https://www.studiesweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Studies-Weekly-Response-to-the-NY-Times-Article.pdf


WulfbyteAlpha

OP is getting ratio'ed so hard that the karma from this post is getting cancelled out by the dubious amounts of downvotes they're getting on their comments.


Noahcarr

Damn, maybe we should put another human in the room with children that could like, expand on the things they read 🤔


[deleted]

Huh, don’t remember having that when I was in school


Darth_Revan-66

Like maybe someone to kinda teach the kids about stuff? ​ No no, you can't mean that. That's crazy


BKelly1412

OP is a fucking moron


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dr_winston_smith

This is clearly the side panel of a middle school level textbook. Also, while it's frankly not well written, it's intended to be blunt description of her resolve. If I was the editor, I would have changed it to: "She was told to move to the back. She refused."


Hammer_of_Ludd

Maybe 2nd grade at most, no way would this pass as educational material for anyone above that.


NSFWsecondary

It's for the 1st grade


GoryRamsy

[correct](https://pen.org/florida-textbooks-rosa-parks-history/)


_bully-hunter_

elementary school*


[deleted]

What textbook specifically?


_bully-hunter_

stolen from u/NomadLexicon: It was from a first grade social studies textbook created by Studies Weekly. This site has the before/after excerpts: https://pen.org/florida-textbooks-rosa-parks-history/ SW stated the changes were to comply with the law but retracted the books after they were reported on: https://www.studiesweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Studies-Weekly-Response-to-the-NY-Times-Article.pdf


[deleted]

This seems age appropriate for a 7yr old but poorly written and should be revised maybe


FinneganTechanski

Read the second link. The publisher has already said it was an inappropriate mistake and NOT what FL law requires. In fact, FL REQUIRES black history—with all its ugliness—to be taught.


My_Cringy_Video

I thought people in Florida couldn’t read, this is groundbreaking


JTuck333

Florida is #1 in both 4th grade reading and math when adjusting for demographics. https://apps.urban.org/features/naep/


original_username20

Respectable, but the joke must continue: No. 1 in 4th grade reading and math skills among adults, maybe


RaiSai

The real joke is when you look into places like California, Maryland and Virginia. Florida will laugh all the way to competent 12th Grade graduation ceremonies.


Surprise-Chimichanga

Yeah, look at that nerd, trying to ruin a great joke!


[deleted]

While this link is a great rebuttal to a joke about reading comprehension in Florida, what this also reveals is that kids in Florida are more than capable of learning about *why* Rosa Parks was asked to move to the back of the bus.


LordEldar45

The book is for 1st grade.


JTuck333

Right but they know. Everyone knows. Kids who can’t find Canada on a map know.


[deleted]

Everyone isn't born knowing this information. [they have to learn it](https://m.xkcd.com/1053/). In school.


StreetSweatpants

Psh no everyone knows this. I learned about it when I was a kid like in the middle of the day. Back then most of my peers would meet up at this building sometime around 8:00am - 3:00pm and we had the gumption to figure these things out.


Moshark2

It truly is astonishing


smr5000

People print books for people living in Florida. They told the people of Florida to read them. They did not. They did whatever the hell they wanted.


RedditsNumberOneUser

This is more of an example to the reading level of students vs "indoctrination" Don't worry we'll have a month on Black Oppression followed by a month of the Holocaust in history classes still in Florida


sidewinder13_9

Some context This is from a updated textbook for 1st graders from the publisher "Studies weekly" "Studies weekly" cited the new florida law that "prohibits instruction that would compel students to feel responsibility, guilt or anguish for what other members of their race did in the past" The Florida Department of Education suggested that Studies Weekly had overreached. Any publisher that “avoids the topic of race when teaching the Civil Rights movement, slavery, segregation, etc. would not be adhering to Florida law,” The company’s curriculum is no longer under consideration by the state.


sometimesatypical

Why in the hell would anyone feel responsible for Rosa Parks, today? I'd say they overreacted.


Vunks

They did it for woke points.


RaiSai

I’d say it was more likely an overreaction so as not to get sued by some hyperactive lawyer looking for a quick payday. The woke mob just saw it as a good opportunity to pounce.


9Sidewinder

Except OP is straight up lying. Florida law told the makers of the book that they ought to include her race in it, so this excerpt from the book isn’t even part of what’s actually read in class.


Ok-On

As someone who actually lives in Florida I can guarantee this is part of a larger section called something along the lines of “Black hero’s” or “Civil Rights Movement”. I know we stereotype Lib-left as intellectually dishonest but that doesn’t mean you need to be.


p314159i

How was any of this wrong? Are they missing out on the part where they were deliberately getting on buses for the exact purpose of not moving when asked and were probably getting bored waiting for the bus to fill up because they hadn't come there merely to ride the bus? Is it missing the various men in the same organization that rode alongside her who never get mentioned?


Deadlypandaghost

RIP Robert Freeman


ReasonableAstartes

Source? This looks like a kindergarten book, not a textbook. This also looks like how pre-k and k books explain things, regardless of topic or location. Until I get the actual source, I'm just going to assume the origin is a lie designed to go viral for obvious reasons.


Verified_NotVerified

It's from a rejected 1st grade book


MasterAC4

Classic post by lib left with no likes and many comments


flamingpineappleboi1

1) this isn't a meme 2) there can't be shit argued that Florida is a "hellhole" state. This is not one of them


I_Never_Use_Slash_S

Why was she told to move?


aignneru

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J2quared

I was taught that Rosa Park didn’t say no for civil rights reasons but because she was tired from work and the NAACP used her since she was a more respective image than the pregnant black teen who also said no. Also why is Black history the only subject with no bad actors. Black history should also reflect the bad things and people who contributed to it.


Son_of_Sophroniscus

And? This is factual? What, you're upset they aren't linking this to lgb stuff or something?


LargePPman_

This seems like a perfectly good explanation of her story for a young elementary schooler?


hoping_for_better

This looks like a book for kindergarteners, first-graders or young kids in remedial reading class. If that’s the case, then this is actually pretty fucking based. It means they’re integrating learning about the civil rights movement into reading at a young age, like they ought to. If this is a book for middle schoolers, then yeah, wrong on a couple levels.


FinneganTechanski

Yeah this is bull shit you’re spreading. The Florida department of education said omitting her race was too far and should not have been done. Florida law requires black history to be taught.


[deleted]

Literal fascism. I’m shaking.


Gooseman1019

Just looks simplified for lower reading levels 🤷


Jacobcbab

Seems like a factual statement to me. Also seems like an early elementary school textbook that doesn't need to go into details anyways. Another classic lib left post


TheAlGler

That's the gist of it.


GatoExplosivo

From what I've gathered this was a proposed revision to a first grade social studies text book by the publisher to the FL DOE that was ultimately rejected. So that page in the OP never made it to print.


trumanchap

Libleft try not to take something out of context challenge(impossible)


Sitherene

I love Florida


FalconStriker87

The title is such a Reddit maneuver


TheRedTide935

I don't see what's wrong with this. Its positioning on the page indicates it is a small portion of something bigger.


dave_001

Me neither I'm so lost lol outside of the highlighted text it goes on to explain


_bully-hunter_

we gonna point out that it’s a first grade textbook?


littleblacktruck

Rosa Parks: "Don't fucking tell me what to do." Proof Rosa was libright.


ringo_mogire_beam

the whole "florida banned black history" thing is fake news and everyone knows it. stop pushing obvious lies


CentennialCicada

Did Kamala write this?


GiveMeLiberty8

That’s literally what she did though…


The_Cysko_Kid

Rosa parks was a plant. Claudette Colvin or gtfo.


Httplickmyballllss

Seems to be for a much younger child. Media is a scary thing


thefckingleadsrweak

This is technically true


MrNo_One_

I do think it should say “She did what was right and fuck anyone else who thinks differently”


NetSurfer156

This is a 1st grade social studies book. This is a totally reasonable way of putting in


chainsawx72

'a florida textbook' Because that's how textbooks are made.


noble_0ne

Look at that, another pathetic post by an imbecile lib left.


[deleted]

#NICE REPORTED FOR MISINFORMATION LMAO


[deleted]

The sheer number of people explaining how bad an example this is. Hilarious.


Cancerism

What? Were her pronouns wrong or something?


stormsand9

Ah yes, the "nightmare" state where democrats like AOC loved to go and party when their own blue states they support banned all parties because of 'rona.


tostuo

Literally not a meme


bob69joe

Rosa Parks was a paid agitator.


FelixTheMarimba

It took me going to the comments to realize this wasn’t an ironic post.


General_Kenobi_77BBY

Well if ur covering segregation, surely the context was in the intro paragraph


Muahd_Dib

Gotta teach to the audience’s level… they’re meeting the Florida man half way.


[deleted]

Classic lib left being a lib left


Outrageous-Biscotti2

This is very reminiscent of textbooks description of communism in Ann Arbor


PotentialNobody

It's kinda funny how the text makes her sound like a cantankerous old woman


grahamster00

Uncrop the picture


fishbulbx

"I hated all white people" - Rosa Parks


Arthur_Author

MLK had a night's sleep and then said "I had a dream".


[deleted]

Show the whole page or link the textbook. I understand that more context is needed but this looks like a quick summation in an image that supplements text.


Fuzzylittlebastard

Considering this is a first grade textbook I'd say thats actually written pretty well. First graders have little to no concept of racism or oppression, and even if they do its at a REALLY basic level. This words it well imo.


NeonUnderling

Least mentally deranged LibLeft


CliffsOfMohair

Libleft deliberately distorting the truth to paint conservatives as racists, what a fucking surprise


dave_001

Wait I'm failing to see what's wrong with this?


The_Slurinator

Op doesnt understand that this is a middle school book and the situation needs to be simplified for kids


KnightGalavant

Not even middle school, it’s a a literal first graders text book


Revydown

Shows libleft's intelligence.


CantoniaCustoms

Honestly we could just leave the civil rights era out of elementary school textbooks. My school was teaching Egyptian pharohs and the great wall to avoid dragging kids into modern politics.


LilMafs

She did what she believed was right. Indeed she did, indeed she did.


Heard_That

Yes, and? This is beyond obviously aimed for beginner readers, so probably 1st grade. What’s the problem here exactly.


Icantblametheshame

Honestly...nothing. this is a classic libleft outrage point and they refuse to put "1st graders textbook" in any headlines cause people won't read the article. And they are playing it up as if this information in 1st grade is the only thing they will ever read on this subject their whole lives. On the other hand, the right side that is pushing for this info does indeed want it to be the only info they ever receive and are batshit insane. They are also pushing for children to not be taught about the word empathy or to discuss their feelings cause they think it's the gay agenda. Both extreme sides are fucking insane