An assignment given to sixth-grade students at a southern Florida school this week went viral after it appeared to suggest that former president Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election were true.
In a set of questions shared online by attorney and former Republican Ron Filipkowski on Wednesday, students at Nolan Middle School near Bradenton, Florida, were asked to identify which of two statements were biased.
The first statement said Mr Trump “made claims that the 2020 election was stolen”, while the second statement said he “made false claims that the 2020 election was stolen”.
Prefaced with a statement about “media bias”, the assignment went on to allege that the second sentence “leads you to believe he is wrong before you have all of the facts,” thereby suggesting that Mr Trump had been unfairly ousted from office. This is false.
“The media is often biassed and will add words that persuade you to think one way over another,” the assignment read with instructions for students to: “Read these two statements made by reporters after the 2020 election”.
On Twitter, Mr Filipkowski said the homework sheet – which has been obtained by The Independent – had been sent to him by a parent, prompting concerns about the content of Florida school lessons following Mr Trump’s failed efforts to cling-on to power and support for Mr Trump from state governor Ron DeSantis.
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