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How the Big Lie Ended Up in a Sixth-Grade Classroom in Florida<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/School District of Manatee County</p> <p>Today’s lesson is how the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gop-will-never-give-up-on-the-big-lie">Big Lie</a> made it onto a world history study sheet handed out by a substitute teacher in the sixth grade at the R. Dan Nolan Middle School in Bradenton, Florida, on Wednesday.</p> <p>It was a take-home sheet headed “How Does a Historian Work?” and it was meant to prepare students for a test on Thursday. One mother proceeded to quiz her child on its list of vocabulary words. The first six were <em>evidence, source, primary source, secondary source, reliable source, </em>and <em>point of view</em>.</p> <p>“Then came number seven,” the mother, who asked not to be named, later told The Daily Beast.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-big-lie-ended-up-in-a-sixth-grade-classroom-in-florida?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p> <p>Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tips">here</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/School District of Manatee County

Today’s lesson is how the Big Lie made it onto a world history study sheet handed out by a substitute teacher in the sixth grade at the R. Dan Nolan Middle School in Bradenton, Florida, on Wednesday.

It was a take-home sheet headed “How Does a Historian Work?” and it was meant to prepare students for a test on Thursday. One mother proceeded to quiz her child on its list of vocabulary words. The first six were evidence, source, primary source, secondary source, reliable source, and point of view.

“Then came number seven,” the mother, who asked not to be named, later told The Daily Beast.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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