DeSantis Blocks AP African-American Studies Course for Breaking Florida’s Anti-CRT Law

[Quorra2.0]

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/medi ... mework.pdf

2023/24

I’ve only read to page 50 but it looks pretty interesting. Nothing objectionable to me so far but hey, I don’t have an issue with equity in education, unwhitewashed history, or giving diverse representation in education. I’m not scared.

I’ve watched the first two episodes with the author discussing her book with historians and people who were there re civil rights protests.

What is in her book that isn’t already taught? She starts with the first few slaves in 1619. She talks about how slaves literally built this country with their labor. A lot of famous buildings from that time were built by slaves. The White House, the Capital, other government buildings. Railroads, roads, they were prominent in civilizing this country.

She discusses how women slaves were routinely raped by their owners and the children were then sold for large profits. The slaves wanted children were also now the property of the evil owner and he could do what he wanted with him.

Isn’t this taught already?

No, none of it is nationally taught in schools. Here in AZ, there’s even legislation that limits what can be taught about Native Americans. In every single one of my 3 kids history books from K-12 most of these things were either 1 paragraph or what equates to one page of one paragraph statements throughout a chapter of an era. Their teachers have all given supplemental reading. And tbh, considering how many errors are regularly found in text books not even the intentional left out…BUT I do feel that at this point in time most of what was written can be considered common knowledge it’s just people see it differently when it’s all written out, collectively instead of bits and pieces all separate.

[SwellDame]

Here is a list of what violates the law. Cleary infused with Marxism/CRT

[Francee89]

Here is a list of what violates the law. Cleary infused with Marxism/CRT

The Florida Department of Education seems to be under the weird delusion that a college level course delving into these concepts as academic theories/frameworks and debates is somehow the same as teaching them as incontrovertible fact.

[jessilin0113]

Here is a list of what violates the law. Cleary infused with Marxism/CRT

Intersectionality does not "rank people". Honestly, this is why you need an education that includes some of these things so you actually understand what you are talking about.