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

Earlier DU thread: 6th Grade assignment today, Nolan Elementary School, Bradenton, FL, Desantistan.

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Source: HuffPost

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

To refer to the ex-president's rigged election claims as false is "bias," said a sixth-grade assignment.

By Mary Papenfuss
Sep 3, 2022, 12:39 PM EDT

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.

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