The stink of Ron DeSantis spreads as Florida now “successfully bans” AP Psychology courses. Apparently, the state’s hottest highschool superior placement course displeases the authoritarian governor as a result of its chapters that cowl sexual orientation and gender id “violate state legislation.” Similar to the AP African American research course that was banned underneath DeSantis’ watch earlier this yr for “violating state legislation.”
And clearly, the anti-freedoms Florida man is aware of higher than mother and father (and their virtually grownup kids) what degree of training these college students must be receiving — as a result of that is how fascism works. Hold ’em managed. Hold ’em silly.
However the School Board has a distinct take, as they shared in a press release that mentioned, partly:
As we shared in June, we can not modify AP Psychology in response to rules that will censor college-level requirements for credit score, placement, and profession readiness. … Any course that censors required course content material can’t be labeled “AP” or “Superior Placement,” and the “AP Psychology” designation can’t be utilized on scholar transcripts.
We’ve got heard from lecturers throughout Florida who’re heartbroken that they’re being compelled to drop AP and as a substitute train options which have been deemed authorized as a result of the programs exclude these subjects.
The state’s ban of this content material removes selection from mother and father and college students. Coming simply days from the beginning of college, it derails the school readiness and affordability plans of tens of hundreds of Florida college students at the moment registered for AP Psychology, one of the crucial fashionable AP courses within the state. AP is acknowledged by hundreds of faculties and universities throughout the US for admissions, scholarships consideration, school credit score, and superior standing. Greater than 28,000 Florida college students took AP Psychology within the 2022-23 educational yr.
And from NBC Information:
The state’s Division of Training knowledgeable the School Board that its AP Psychology class is in violation of state legislation, the upper training nonprofit mentioned in a assertion. Florida’s Parental Rights in Training Act, or what critics have dubbed the “Do not Say Homosexual” legislation, restricts the instruction of sexual orientation and gender id within the state’s school rooms.
The state’s transfer to limit the AP Psychology course comes a number of months after its determination to block AP African American Research programs was broadly condemned by teachers and civil rights activists.
The School Board added that Florida will enable superintendents to supply the college-level psychology class for prime schoolers in the event that they exclude LGBTQ subjects.
Nonetheless, the School Board argued that excluding the teachings — which it describes as teachings on “how intercourse and gender affect socialization and different elements of improvement” — “would censor college-level requirements.”
It added that classes relating to sexual orientation and gender id have been included in AP Psychology for the reason that course was created 30 years in the past.