{"id":741,"date":"2023-01-25T11:48:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=741"},"modified":"2023-01-25T11:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:48:04","slug":"florida-government-scraps-ap-african-american-studies-course-from-school-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Florida Government Scraps AP African American Studies Course From School Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-742\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-11.png 788w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-11-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-11-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-11-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-11-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf the course comes into compliance and incorporates historically accurate content, the Department will reopen the discussion,\u201d Florida Education Department Press Secretary Cassie Palelis remarked in a statement she sent to the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florida has been at the epicenter of a massive culture war struggle in the last two years. In 2021, Florida passed the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/community-family\/judge-tosses-out-part-of-desantiss-stop-woke-act-cites-1984-novel\">Stop WOKE Act<\/a>&nbsp;which restricted the instruction of critical race theory \u2014 anti-white hate \u2014 in public university settings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The College Board rolled out plans to offer the African American studies course in 2022 and is going through a trial run in 60 schools during the 2022-2023 school year. The board\u2019s aim is to have the course present in all US school curricula for the 2024-2025 school year. According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apcentral.collegeboard.org\/about-ap\/how-ap-develops-courses-and-exams\/pilot-ap-african-american-studies\">website<\/a>, the first exam is set to take place in spring 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>African American studies are notorious for being laced with massive amounts of anti-white material that\u2019s designed to indoctrinate students and turn them into loyal cultural leftists. It\u2019s good to see a state government crack down on these indoctrination courses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently blocked an Advanced Placement class focused on African American Studies from being included in the state\u2019s high school curriculum.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>\u00a0was able to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/policy\/education\/desantis-administration-blocks-african-american-studies-course\">acquire<\/a>\u00a0a letter from the Florida Department of Education\u2019s Office of Articulation to the College Board where it declared that the course is \u201cinexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the Right is serious about taking back the culture, it will need to punish institutions that promote leftist tropes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/florida-government-scraps-ap-african-american-studies-course-from-school-curriculum\/\">https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/florida-government-scraps-ap-african-american-studies-course-from-school-curriculum\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf the course comes into compliance and incorporates historically accurate content, the Department will reopen the discussion,\u201d Florida Education Department Press Secretary Cassie Palelis remarked in a statement she sent to the&nbsp;Washington Examiner. Florida has been at the epicenter of a massive culture war struggle in the last two years. In 2021, Florida passed the&nbsp;Stop WOKE Act&nbsp;which restricted the instruction of critical race theory \u2014 anti-white hate \u2014 in public university settings.&nbsp; The College Board rolled out plans to offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}