Florida policy also now bans the 1619 Project from being taught.
I agree that public teaching shouldn't be political or moralizing, but I think this likely goes beyond that.
Locally, the debate has surged, as well. In Florida, a teacher is suing a local school district for allegedly retaliating after she spoke up about racism and hung a Black Lives Matter flag.
You shouldn't be doing political activism in a public school. The cause is irrelevant. If you disagree, imagine a teacher hanging a Confederate Flag in class and going on about pro-Confederate and pro-Trump rants. I'm sure that happens too, but it shouldn't.
We need to de-politicize our classrooms and do our best to be as objective as possible.
Edit: I don't think the 1619 Project should be taught in public schools.
"The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation's foundational date".This is factually incorrect. The nation was founded, legally, on July 4, 1776. The 1619 Project specifically argues that 1619 is the founding year of the nation, and then contains essays that attempt to convince the reader that this claim is true. It is a political activism project based on untrue historical claims based around subjective criteria, not legal ones.