some of it may be malicious compliance but some of it is genuine “what am I supposed to do here?”
In Florida during the DeSantis era, I see our teachers going through this each time a new batch of changes happens every six months.
For every 1 maliciously compliant teacher or administrator are 9 “what am i supposed to do here?”
and they go overboard whether putting school books for review or excising content from textbooks that might have emotional learning or dei — does dei mean “black history month”? Women’s studies? a sentence mentioning someone was gay?
they don’t know.
So it’s iffy here. I think THIS early on with zero clear guidance, it’s likely a panic response removing anything black or female.