Florida officials are dangerously and unconstitutionally promoting Christian nationalism in public schools.
The Legislature has passed a bill that will require a 1-to 2-minute moment of silence every morning at every public school in Florida, openly intended to encourage students to recite prayers in class. The requirement is being added to a provision of the law relating to “study of the Bible and religion” in public schools. Although this year’s change eliminates the “prayer” language (which is good), it makes the activity mandatory, and the religious intent is still undeniable.
A second attack on secular schools, based on a 2019 law to revisit public school civics standards, is the Florida Department of Education’s proposal for new American history curriculum standards that indoctrinate children into a counterfactual version of history. It’s designed to paint a false narrative that the United States is a Christian nation and that, by implication, one must be