Florida bans AP African American Studies

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration has blocked a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies from being taught in high schools, saying it violates state law and is historically inaccurate.

The state education department rejected the program in a letter last week to the College Board, which oversees AP classes.

Florida education officials did not specify exactly what content the state found objectionable but said, “As presented, the content of this course is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-blocks-high-school-african-210142306.html

 

[Taylucifer 5,249]

bunch of losers

[PartySick 172,510]

Coming from the dipsh*t that's responsible for this:

I'm not surprised in the slightest.

Florida is such a sh*thole, I can't wait to leave.

[SharkmanthaC 115,045]

So if you don't teach history that means it didn't happen right? 

[Reginald 13,841]

DeSantis is pure evil. I have nothing positive to say, and look forward to when he's just a powerless memory

[monstrosity 3,979]

Disgusting 

also what does AP mean ?

[Jenina 15,331]

8 minutes ago, monstrosity said:

Disgusting 

also what does AP mean ?

Advanced Placement. They're usually the hardest courses you can take in high school and at the end of the year you take a test and depending on your score and which college you go to, you can get college credit 

[monstrosity 3,979]

35 minutes ago, Jenina said:

Advanced Placement. They're usually the hardest courses you can take in high school and at the end of the year you take a test and depending on your score and which college you go to, you can get college credit 

Ty

[YouCanSitWithUs 394]

This might sound controversial but I actually agree that these types of classes should stay in colleges and not high school classes. On the surface an AP African American Studies class sounds pretty straightforward but lawmakers were having problems with the intersectionality topics that dive in sub-minority groups of minority groups. I think 16 year olds have no real grip of the nuances of this type of subject matter. 

Also why won't anyone talk about how we are making education so difficult for kids that they are not even grounded in reality anymore? I work around alot of college kids and they are increasingly, increasingly concerned about subject matters that, yes, do require alot of intelligence but, to be frank, are not really that important in life. Like....they seem like distractions almost. Flint, Michigan still lacks clean water. This is a city of mostly African-American people, real people who are living in third world conditions in the U.S. today....yet we are worried about teaching kids the details of how a queer person that is also a person of color might see things differently about the world? I think that is a completely valid subject...for people who have a more broad understanding of the world...not 16 year olds who do not really understand their own world. We need to stop making high school so complex for young people. We need to focus on core subjects that make kids have a strong enough foundation that they feel confident enough to maybe...when they are 19 or 20 go study AP African American studies....but alot of kids....especially disadvantaged kids from poorer communities often get dusted off in Algebra 1 when they fall behind for the sake of (mostly white kids) having access to learn about black intersectionality? Does anyone see the irony in this? We aren't doing anything for black people here, really. We aren't getting the most bang for our buck. We could support real change in black communities but instead we are showing up to a bougie theory class rather than the actual neighborhoods that need help.

Honestly, the irony for this is that if white liberals were concerned about young black people, they would be focused on funding inner city schools and not teaching such a nuanced class that only suburban white schools will have the money to pay a teacher to teach anyway. Wanna help black visibility....go visibly see and partake in supporting black businesses, black neighborhoods, and support your black friends. 

This doesn't need to be a high school class.

Also: do you really want some republican ass teacher in the whitest suburb trying to put their insane spin on this class because it's required in every high school and that high school didn't have anyone else to teach it? This could actually backfire. Because the state government can't force every high school to have a teacher that will necessarily explain or teach this class in a fair way. Like...it actually could make things worse for black people because there are definitely school districts that wouldn't have even made an issue out of this that will now make an issue out of this and put some ridiculous spin on this class. 

[holy scheisse 22,907]

Embarrassing 

[En_Sabah_Nur 9,366]

1 hour ago, YouCanSitWithUs said:

This might sound controversial but I actually agree that these types of classes should stay in colleges and not high school classes. On the surface an AP African American Studies class sounds pretty straightforward but lawmakers were having problems with the intersectionality topics that dive in sub-minority groups of minority groups. I think 16 year olds have no real grip of the nuances of this type of subject matter. 

Also why won't anyone talk about how we are making education so difficult for kids that they are not even grounded in reality anymore? I work around alot of college kids and they are increasingly, increasingly concerned about subject matters that, yes, do require alot of intelligence but, to be frank, are not really that important in life. Like....they seem like distractions almost. Flint, Michigan still lacks clean water. This is a city of mostly African-American people, real people who are living in third world conditions in the U.S. today....yet we are worried about teaching kids the details of how a queer person that is also a person of color might see things differently about the world? I think that is a completely valid subject...for people who have a more broad understanding of the world...not 16 year olds who do not really understand their own world. We need to stop making high school so complex for young people. We need to focus on core subjects that make kids have a strong enough foundation that they feel confident enough to maybe...when they are 19 or 20 go study AP African American studies....but alot of kids....especially disadvantaged kids from poorer communities often get dusted off in Algebra 1 when they fall behind for the sake of (mostly white kids) having access to learn about black intersectionality? Does anyone see the irony in this? We aren't doing anything for black people here, really. We aren't getting the most bang for our buck. We could support real change in black communities but instead we are showing up to a bougie theory class rather than the actual neighborhoods that need help.

Honestly, the irony for this is that if white liberals were concerned about young black people, they would be focused on funding inner city schools and not teaching such a nuanced class that only suburban white schools will have the money to pay a teacher to teach anyway. Wanna help black visibility....go visibly see and partake in supporting black businesses, black neighborhoods, and support your black friends. 

This doesn't need to be a high school class.

Also: do you really want some republican ass teacher in the whitest suburb trying to put their insane spin on this class because it's required in every high school and that high school didn't have anyone else to teach it? This could actually backfire. Because the state government can't force every high school to have a teacher that will necessarily explain or teach this class in a fair way. Like...it actually could make things worse for black people because there are definitely school districts that wouldn't have even made an issue out of this that will now make an issue out of this and put some ridiculous spin on this class. 

Then they need to also BAN these other AP Classes as well. No need to learn about European, Japanese, German, Italian, or Spanish AP Classes either…!  
 

 

[Roughhouse Dandy 13,612]

1 hour ago, YouCanSitWithUs said:

This might sound controversial but I actually agree that these types of classes should stay in colleges and not high school classes. On the surface an AP African American Studies class sounds pretty straightforward but lawmakers were having problems with the intersectionality topics that dive in sub-minority groups of minority groups. I think 16 year olds have no real grip of the nuances of this type of subject matter. 

Also why won't anyone talk about how we are making education so difficult for kids that they are not even grounded in reality anymore? I work around alot of college kids and they are increasingly, increasingly concerned about subject matters that, yes, do require alot of intelligence but, to be frank, are not really that important in life. Like....they seem like distractions almost. Flint, Michigan still lacks clean water. This is a city of mostly African-American people, real people who are living in third world conditions in the U.S. today....yet we are worried about teaching kids the details of how a queer person that is also a person of color might see things differently about the world? I think that is a completely valid subject...for people who have a more broad understanding of the world...not 16 year olds who do not really understand their own world. We need to stop making high school so complex for young people. We need to focus on core subjects that make kids have a strong enough foundation that they feel confident enough to maybe...when they are 19 or 20 go study AP African American studies....but alot of kids....especially disadvantaged kids from poorer communities often get dusted off in Algebra 1 when they fall behind for the sake of (mostly white kids) having access to learn about black intersectionality? Does anyone see the irony in this? We aren't doing anything for black people here, really. We aren't getting the most bang for our buck. We could support real change in black communities but instead we are showing up to a bougie theory class rather than the actual neighborhoods that need help.

Honestly, the irony for this is that if white liberals were concerned about young black people, they would be focused on funding inner city schools and not teaching such a nuanced class that only suburban white schools will have the money to pay a teacher to teach anyway. Wanna help black visibility....go visibly see and partake in supporting black businesses, black neighborhoods, and support your black friends. 

This doesn't need to be a high school class.

Also: do you really want some republican ass teacher in the whitest suburb trying to put their insane spin on this class because it's required in every high school and that high school didn't have anyone else to teach it? This could actually backfire. Because the state government can't force every high school to have a teacher that will necessarily explain or teach this class in a fair way. Like...it actually could make things worse for black people because there are definitely school districts that wouldn't have even made an issue out of this that will now make an issue out of this and put some ridiculous spin on this class. 

Idk. Teaching theory to people about to go to college and decide what they're going to study/how they want to go about improving the world seems like a worthy use of resources to me. 

[ScreamQueen007 415]

DeSutler. 

[Chromatography 10,186]

as if us history taught isn’t historically inaccurate? somehow i learned it was never americas fault for anything

[Emvee 8,829]

2 hours ago, YouCanSitWithUs said:

This might sound controversial but I actually agree that these types of classes should stay in colleges and not high school classes. On the surface an AP African American Studies class sounds pretty straightforward but lawmakers were having problems with the intersectionality topics that dive in sub-minority groups of minority groups. I think 16 year olds have no real grip of the nuances of this type of subject matter. 

Also why won't anyone talk about how we are making education so difficult for kids that they are not even grounded in reality anymore? I work around alot of college kids and they are increasingly, increasingly concerned about subject matters that, yes, do require alot of intelligence but, to be frank, are not really that important in life. Like....they seem like distractions almost. Flint, Michigan still lacks clean water. This is a city of mostly African-American people, real people who are living in third world conditions in the U.S. today....yet we are worried about teaching kids the details of how a queer person that is also a person of color might see things differently about the world? I think that is a completely valid subject...for people who have a more broad understanding of the world...not 16 year olds who do not really understand their own world. We need to stop making high school so complex for young people. We need to focus on core subjects that make kids have a strong enough foundation that they feel confident enough to maybe...when they are 19 or 20 go study AP African American studies....but alot of kids....especially disadvantaged kids from poorer communities often get dusted off in Algebra 1 when they fall behind for the sake of (mostly white kids) having access to learn about black intersectionality? Does anyone see the irony in this? We aren't doing anything for black people here, really. We aren't getting the most bang for our buck. We could support real change in black communities but instead we are showing up to a bougie theory class rather than the actual neighborhoods that need help.

Honestly, the irony for this is that if white liberals were concerned about young black people, they would be focused on funding inner city schools and not teaching such a nuanced class that only suburban white schools will have the money to pay a teacher to teach anyway. Wanna help black visibility....go visibly see and partake in supporting black businesses, black neighborhoods, and support your black friends. 

This doesn't need to be a high school class.

Also: do you really want some republican ass teacher in the whitest suburb trying to put their insane spin on this class because it's required in every high school and that high school didn't have anyone else to teach it? This could actually backfire. Because the state government can't force every high school to have a teacher that will necessarily explain or teach this class in a fair way. Like...it actually could make things worse for black people because there are definitely school districts that wouldn't have even made an issue out of this that will now make an issue out of this and put some ridiculous spin on this class. 

Do you know what an AP class is? Advanced Placement classes are not “required.” 
 

Students can ELECT to take courses such as AP Calculus, Physics, European History, Philosophy to prepare them for college … but African American history is too much?

 

It’s not too much. It’s not rocket science. People are cowards and enabling white supremacy. 
 

This is KKK **** right here. It’s authoritarian and it’s about time Americans start to shame the hell out of this rotten state. Stop making excuses for white supremacy and facism. .