{"id":48916,"date":"2021-05-25T09:57:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48916"},"modified":"2021-05-25T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:57:54","slug":"did-you-know-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/05\/did-you-know-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that a Duval County teacher has been fired for refusing to remove a Black Lives Matter banner from the wall outside her classroom and for also teaching \u201ccritical race theory\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/55075786_303.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/55075786_303.jpg 700w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/55075786_303-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Action News Jax, Amy Donofrio was terminated from her Language Arts teacher position at Robert E. Lee High School for \u2013 \u201cas Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran described\u2014having \u2018an entire classroom memorialized to Black Lives Matter.\u2019\u201d Apparently, Ms. Donofrio refused to take down her BLM banners and stop teaching \u201ccritical race theory\u201d as was ordered by Governor Ron DeSantis banning CRT from all schools across Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis announced recently that his administration will spend approximately $106 million to fund civics education titled the \u201cFlorida Civil Seal of Excellence.\u201d DeSantis promised a $3000 bonus for teachers completing the training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis also stated regarding critical race theory, \u201cIt\u2019s\u2026based on false history\u2026When they try to look back and denigrate the founding fathers, denigrate the American Revolution, doing all these different things that even very liberal historians say is not supported by the facts. So, I think what we need is we need the constitution back in the classrooms, we need to make sure civics is a priority, but it needs to be taught accurately. It needs to be taught in a fact-based way, not an ideological way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that a Duval County teacher has been fired for refusing to remove a Black Lives Matter banner from the wall outside her classroom and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48918,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916\/revisions\/48918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}