“Miami-Dade County has banned” Amanda Gorman’s poem “from elementary schools.”
Social media posts
an Instagram post. Claim dated 26 May 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
One K-8 school in Miami-Dade County moved Amanda Gorman's poem to the middle school section of its library. Some younger students can still access it there if they show they read at a fifth-grade level.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 26 May 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 June 2023, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/realjoeypants/3111156366437851860
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