So removing race-baiting classes and pornography from publicly funded schools makes him a race-baiter.
Continuing that logic, anyone who disagrees with the "expert" doc referenced in the OP must also be a racist.
Makes about as much sense as biological males using the girls locker room.
AP African American Studies is race-baiting? Or is it pornography?
You and I are going to disagree on this point. Its a college level multi-disciplinary class made to teach advanced HS students analytic thinking from a variety of approaches, themed (in this case) on the African American experience. It is actually still a pilot curriculum undergoing development, so open to changes. It looks at history, literature, art, sociology, philosophy, art, etc… all through the topic listed. It is a common approach to a variety of topics (Jewish Studies, Women’s studies, Western Civ, etc) in education. It isn’t a replacement for a core history class, like US history or Latin American history; it is a multi-disciplinary elective.
DeSantis has noted it has “no educational value” and is “woke” and against Florida law. One thing he pointed out is that there is a module (1 of like 100 modules in the curriculum) regarding queer theory / black queer experience, which in his opinion has nothing to do with black “history”. I would posit this is clearly illogical, and a lesson about a minority-within-a-minority may be eye opening and interesting and important. Are there no queer black people?
I took all sorts of classes on all sorts of topics, AT FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. I took 8 or 9 AP exams in Florida, and a stack of IB exams, and explored topics that were controversial… it wasn’t indoctrination, it was opening the door to analysis, critical thinking, debate, and a multiplicity of points of view. I took a shop class; I took an IB exam Latin American history course that was basically themed on the American Empire, US Fruit, Banana Republics and Cuba (controversy!).
Advanced HS students should be ENCOURAGED to take a course like this that pushes their boundaries and encourages learning, reading, and exploration. If the course says everyone in it should buy an AK-47 and kill all white people… yeah we can agree its bad. Otherwise, it seems universal that we find today’s youth disinterested in advanced learning… why limit them?
I found a politico article looking at the curriculum (I’m sure thats an unacceptable source, but they do readily admit some parts are button-pushers). I think its worth reading as it largely matches my POV on the subject.
What’s Really in the AP African-American Studies Class DeSantis Rejected?
To quote from it:
“Because reading Friedrich Nietzsche in college did not turn me into a nihilist any more than reading Albert Camus made me an existentialist. I read Ross Douthat’s
New York Times column regularly, and yet I have neither changed my party affiliation to Republican nor converted to Catholicism.”