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Florida Says AP African American Studies Program 'Lacks Educational Value'
The state used Ron DeSantis' "Stop WOKE Act" to block the proposed program from its schools
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...the content of this course is inexplicably contrary to Florida law...
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... Florida has blocked the College Board from testing a pilot Advanced Placement African American Studies (APAAS) curriculum in the state under Governor Ron DeSantis' "Stop WOKE" Act. According to a letter obtained by National Review, Florida's Department of Education's Office of Articulation said the curriculum "is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value." The pilot course, which has been tested at 60 schools across the United States, aims to expand the advanced coursework offered by the College Board into the study of the African diaspora in the U.S. The course has run afoul of DeSantis' widespread ban on teaching "critical race theory" (CRT) in K-12 classrooms. CRT is an analytical framework that seeks to dissect the manner in which racism has shaped American legal theory and institutions. The concept has been co-opted in recent years by right-wing reactionaries to fearmonger about any and all discussions of race and discrimination. ...
The pilot course, which has been tested at 60 schools across the United States, aims to expand the advanced coursework offered by the College Board into the study of the African diaspora in the U.S. The course has run afoul of DeSantis' widespread ban on teaching "critical race theory" (CRT) in K-12 classrooms. CRT is an analytical framework that seeks to dissect the manner in which racism has shaped American legal theory and institutions. The concept has been co-opted in recent years by right-wing reactionaries to fearmonger about any and all discussions of race and discrimination. ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-01-18 09:23 PM | Reply
When are White Republicans going to fix their Racism problem?
#2 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2023-01-18 12:03 PM | REPLYcism and discrpm9nayion in Amerpca is just a lrft wing myth, there was never any racism or disrimination in this country, Every blsck person in Florida should br frious about Desantis rewriting history, he is revealing himself as a racist more every day.
#2 | Posted by danni at 2023-01-18 09:55 PM | Reply
DeSantis is just proving that the whole basis of CRT and that CRT is true.
That whites have been suppressing blacks and denying black history forever which is why blacks are still under represented and being disadvantaged in America even today 60 years after the civil rights act of 1964 which brought the era of Jim Crow to an end.
#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2023-01-18 10:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5
Anything coming out of this moron's so-called administration lacks any sort of value.
#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2023-01-18 10:55 PM | Reply
Aretha Franklin - Someday We'll All Be Free www.youtube.com
#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-01-19 12:27 AM | Reply
All white, all the time.
#6 | Posted by fresno500 at 2023-01-19 06:16 AM | Reply
"When are White Republicans going to fix their Racism problem?"
zsmen white peopje stop fesring peoplr of color but because of demographics that wpn't happen for a very long time. The Southern Strategy is just as effective today ss it was in 1968; white resentment about the loss of ehite provilege is stull real. Desantis figured that out and will try to use it to become President. He is depending on racism for his polititcal ambition. He's not stupid but he is completely cynical and calculating.
#7 | Posted by danni at 2023-01-19 07:42 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
As a good Republican, shouldn't he have eliminated the Dept. of Education? Why do all the Right-wingers in Florida want the government telling them how to raise their kids.
#8 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2023-01-19 07:56 AM | Reply
I just had a brilliant idea now that I'm officially a Florida resident. I'm going to register Republican and start going to party meetings and espousing real traditional values and see how they respond.
"Why would I vote for a woman (Republican) when the Bible tells us they are clearly inferior?" "I don't agree with CRT at all, but do you think I want the government telling me what my kids can read or not." "Divorce is clearly a sin, why is it legal?"
Stuff like that.
#9 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2023-01-19 08:00 AM | Reply
#9 I applaud your grit.
#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2023-01-19 08:12 AM | Reply
""I don't agree with CRT at all,"
What about it do you disagree with?
#11 | Posted by danni at 2023-01-19 08:18 AM | Reply
JeffJ doesn't see how this is just another facet of White Supremacy.
#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-01-19 09:52 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
There are several demographic trends happening in Florida. Unvaccinated people continue to get sick and die. Old people, very vulnerable to COVID, and having NO money, are the leading immigrants to Florida. Educated people are likely the leading emigrants. These facts portend Florida as a vector for inbred mutants.
#13 | Posted by john47 at 2023-01-19 09:54 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1
Yes he does. He just knows that acknowledging it for what it is works against their goals. For now at least.
#14 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2023-01-19 11:05 AM | Reply
I read about this yesterday. The AP committee has mostly kept this under wraps. A writer at NRO claimed to have seen it and based on what he saw Florida is making the right call.
Hagbard Celine undoubtedly hangs on every word ever written by Ibram X Kendi.
#15 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-01-19 11:30 AM | Reply
#15. You speaketh as a white man of privileged means. Of course you support this Jeff.
#16 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2023-01-19 11:41 AM | Reply
"Educated people are likely the leading emigrants."-John 47
If you are referring to the incoming Cubans and Venezuelans I can tell you for a fact that they will vote republican as anything with the word 'Socialism' on it will send them into anger fits. How do I know? Most of my neighbors in Santiago Chile are Venezuelans and the poor and the educated alike vote right wing. I do not necessarily think that just because new immigrants are brown they will vote democrat.
#17 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2023-01-19 11:47 AM | Reply
So, DeSantan wishes to stop cancel woke culture by 'cancelling' something(a class) that might be taught at a State University? And, this turd polisher wishes to be POTUS? I think he and that orange child raping ex POTUS should hold their primary in a pig pen and the lot of them get down in dirty in the mud and muck to decide who can get more filthy in their scripted graft laden run for the office of POTUS. They are all pigs and that is where they belong.
#18 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2023-01-19 01:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
"Educated people are likely the leading emigrants."-John 47 If you are referring to the incoming Cubans and Venezuelans I can tell you for a fact that they will vote republican as anything with the word 'Socialism' on it will send them into anger fits. How do I know? Most of my neighbors in Santiago Chile are Venezuelans and the poor and the educated alike vote right wing. I do not necessarily think that just because new immigrants are brown they will vote democrat.
#17 | POSTED BY WILDMAN62 AT 2023-01-19 11:47
Wildman, Emigrants can be any race or former nationality, and most likely fed up with the collapse of public education, stand your ground, and jokes involving "Florida Man." You seem to have completely misunderstood the intent and meaning of my post. Thank you for playing.
#19 | Posted by john47 at 2023-01-19 01:49 PM | Reply
Florida IS Idiocracy.
#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2023-01-19 02:28 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
#17 | POSTED BY WILDMAN62
Perhaps you should look up the definition of "EMIGRANT" before you open your trap and expose your stupidity to the rest of us.
#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2023-01-19 02:30 PM | Reply
But DeSantis isn't a white supremacist!
It's just a series of unfortunate coincidences.
#22 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2023-01-19 02:50 PM | Reply
and nothing says 'Racist', quite so loudly as that...
#23 | Posted by earthmuse at 2023-01-19 08:17 PM | Reply
#22. When everything g is racist nothing is racist.
#24 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-01-19 08:27 PM | Reply
#24 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER
That literally made no sense.
Like the rest of your posts.
#25 | Posted by Sycophant at 2023-01-20 10:32 AM | Reply
OK. I'll say it differently. When things that have nothing to do with race get labeled "racist" the word becomes so diluted that it loses meaning.
#26 | Posted by BellRinger at 2023-01-20 10:36 AM | Reply
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