Mayade Ersoff, 61, a middle school history teacher at her home in Miami. “I will never, ever, teach to the new standards,” she said.
MIAMI — One day last September, history teacher Mayade Ersoff walked into her classroom at Palmetto Middle School, saw vandalism and vowed to resist.
A poster affirming that “Love is Love” still hung beside the blackboard. But two others, “Slavery did not Benefit Black People” and “Teach the Truth,” had vanished. In their place was a note from school principal Alina Valero asking to meet.
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Mayade Ersoff showing a project by one of her U.S. history students. The children were asked to create a story board and timeline showing how African families were split up, sold at auction and forced to work as slaves.
Katharine Lake Berz
Drawing by one of Mayade Ersoff’s U.S. history students at Palmetto Middle …