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Bigots. Racists.
One of the great problems with having the government in charge of education is that you run the risk of electing a government that doesn’t give two shits about education. 
I’m not saying there’s a better system. It’s just very obvious that this is the fatal flaw of this one. >

I wonder how Florida high school students are supposed to earn their way into quality universities without the AP courses that every other applicant will have. >

They aren’t, that’s a feature. >

This is an air horn of a dog whistle >

Right? My dog heard it clear up here in Ohio. >

The Republican Party fears knowledge, especially about race and history, the way that the Wicked Witch of the West feared water . . . and for the same reasons. >

Just call the class AP Confederate History Studies
Or AP European Globalization Offshoring >

white people can do no wrong history class? >

Well since DeSantis lacks education it’s hard to trust his opinions >

That's the problem. Desantis isn't poorly educated. He has an Ivy League education and clerked for the Supreme Court. He misrepresents that education because the rubes that vote for him consider it a net negative. He knows the damage his policies do, he just doesn't care; so long as he can be president, he's fine with burning the house down. >

And I bet there’s a black conservative out there agreeing with Ron while eating at the Cheesecake Factory >

Nothing racist here… >

They are not even trying to veil the racism any more… >

Just another day on the Grand Ole Plantation. >

As a white person: Fuck you, DeSantis and the fascist Florida GQP, you bigoted wastes of human flesh. >

Can we please have a democratic candidate who faces this asshole who straight up just says “you’re a racist fuck and deserve no power, not even on the local school board”, and then watch him quiver. Watch him in debates. No one challenges him. When they do, he wilts. Fuck DeSantis. >

I can’t wait for this clown to run for President. >

Anything above remedial studies is over education in Florida. Keep them ignorant so they’re easily manipulated. >

To anyone else who is incensed by this: We are going to have to fight these people eventually. They are not going to back down with this bullshit. >

If it’s for highschool that’s messed up that’s the time to learn all of this if it’s a college I’d have to agree what value does that have from an employable standpoint. >


what value does that have from an employable standpoint.

That's job training, not education. >

Education is in grades k-12 vocational school and colleges are for job training as I said if it’s a highschool course they are 100% wrong >

You're wrong. >

When colleges student loans get returned and wiped out because the education is unemployable as have happened with 2-3 colleges now I’d say not. Can’t have it both ways >

Do you have any links to these “colleges”?  I bet they were actually vo-tech schools, trade schools, or “technical institutes” who lied about their post-graduation job placement rates, which is fraud. 
If an engineering student wants to take medieval French literature as one of their electives, what’s the harm? >

Those are instances of fraud. From the Forbes article:
“These misrepresentations typically take the form of untruthful representations of the school's selectivity in admitting students, its rankings... the job placement and earnings outcomes of its prior graduates, or the likelihood that its credits will be accepted by another school.”
None of that has anything to do with whether the school’s specific course offerings provide adequate job training - it has to do with the schools explicitly lying to the students about rankings, job placement, etc. 
No one is getting their tuition refunded simply because they can’t find a job with their birdcage welding degree. >

Those degrees were valid degrees alot of them were just useless >

Again, the schools got in trouble for explicitly lying to their students, not because of the degrees’ “value” or lack thereof. 
Did you go to college?  Did you not take a single course outside of your major that had nothing to do with the job you hoped to get after graduation?  If a college wants to offer a course in African American culture, who’s to say they shouldn’t?  Sounds like it might be an interesting history or sociology elective. >

This is an air horn of a dog whistle >

Right? My dog heard it clear up here in Ohio. >

The Republican Party fears knowledge, especially about race and history, the way that the Wicked Witch of the West feared water . . . and for the same reasons. >

That’s a bingo. If you fear this sort of course it says a lot more about you as a person than anything. America did genocide and slavery and Jim Crow and many other terrible things. It’s just what happened. >

Just call the class AP Confederate History Studies
Or AP European Globalization Offshoring >

white people can do no wrong history class? >

We already have that k-12 >

kkk-12 >

Everyone knows Lincoln freed the slaves, then some industrial revolution stuff happened, followed by the great depression, world war 2, and finally MLK giving one hell of a speech. And everything has been fine ever since. >

I love that the committee has absolutely no power and people still seem to care or think it is at all relevant to anything.   I declare that every American should be given 50 BILLION dollars and a new Casio watch!
Bullshit like that just makes for clickbait and the appearance of doing something: while doing absolutely nothing.  It also gives the opposing side ammunition against it. >

One of the great problems with having the government in charge of education is that you run the risk of electing a government that doesn’t give two shits about education. 
I’m not saying there’s a better system. It’s just very obvious that this is the fatal flaw of this one. >

So let corporations run education >

In many cases, like with Florida here, shitting on public schools so that for profit charter schools can take their place is very much a coincidental goal. In addition, the political party in power here knows that they only have a chance to keep that power as long as the voters are kept poorly educated. So continuing to poison public schools has more than one benefit for them. >

Gotta get that enrollment up in the Betsy DeVos Academies and that chain of right winger nutter schools owned by Hillsdale. >

As a white person: Fuck you, DeSantis and the fascist Florida GQP, you bigoted wastes of human flesh. >

Can we please have a democratic candidate who faces this asshole who straight up just says “you’re a racist fuck and deserve no power, not even on the local school board”, and then watch him quiver. Watch him in debates. No one challenges him. When they do, he wilts. Fuck DeSantis. >

I wonder how Florida high school students are supposed to earn their way into quality universities without the AP courses that every other applicant will have. >

And I bet there’s a black conservative out there agreeing with Ron while eating at the Cheesecake Factory >

Just another day on the Grand Ole Plantation. >

So we can't teach kids about the Roseland Massacre anymore?
I learned about it in a Fla public school... in a different era. >

I wish more people would read the articles so we could actually discuss their contents lol. Yeah the title makes this seem objectionable. The article makes it way worse:

“In the future, should College Board be willing to come back to the table with lawful, historically accurate content, FDOE will always be willing to reopen the discussion,” the state wrote in a letter to the College Board, the company that administers the course as well as other interdisciplinary courses and the SAT exam.

They didn't say what they objected to in the curriculum, but they heavily implied that what was being taught was inaccurate. That's an incredible statement given that the material hasn't even been released! 

But the syllabus was apparently leaked to The Florida Standard, a conservative outlet that is friendly with the DeSantis administration. According to the outlet, the course “sought to teach progressive doctrines” because it included topics such as “Black Queer Studies” and “Postracial Racism and Colorblindness.”

All they have is a leaked syllabus. Banning a curriculum based on the name of topics is absurd. I don't think "The Gilded Age" is a good name for that time period, but I wouldn't ban a fucking textbook on that basis. 
The only good that can come of this is that it ought to destroy the facade that DeSantis's anti-woke laws are about anything other than thoughtcrime. My concern is that that may have been the goal. If Republicans still cared enough to use dog whistles, he would've waited until the textbook was released, then found some facts in the textbook that weren't unanimously agreed to be accurate (every history textbook is going to have some information that is disputed by some experts) then banned the curriculum on that basis. The fact that he felt no need to wait indicates that his people will honestly excuse exceedingly thinly veiled bigotry.
With all that being said, I do have concerns about this being an AP class. Ultimately, only relatively intelligent, relatively ambitious kids are going to take an AP class at all. Of that group, only those that are interested in black history are going to take the class. Several years down the line, you're going to have an increased degree of Republicans saying, "All those elitist Democrats believe in systemic racism!" I'm fine with these topics being introduced into public schools through the AP program, but I really hope that it'd quickly get integrated into required history classes.
EDIT: I saw another article that talked about this. The syllabus was 81 pages. Which I think is really important information, and it was irresponsible of this article to fail to provide such context. Still, if a state wants to ban a class, it should have to point to particular things being taught that are inaccurate, or point to some facts that must be taught that are inexplicably left out of the curriculum. >

This was my problem too, the ban was basically based on nothing. There’s no context whatsoever which leads me to believe the context didn’t matter, simply teaching ANYTHING about the African American experience is what’s objectionable. IMO DeSantis is far worse/more dangerous than Trump could ever be.
Edit: swapped a word >

DeSantis is "post-Trump Republicanism." Trump proved that dog whistles were largely unnecessary. You can just plain say, "I want to ban all Muslims from the country," and the Republican base will say that it's not islamaphobia. The previous incarnation of the Republican party basically had the concept of "bigotry is wrong, but as long as statements and policies ostenisibly have an articulable non-bigoted motivation, that's acceptable." That wasn't a good stance at all, but it provided some constraints. The current concept is "Bigotry is wrong. However, no statement or policy is bigoted, except any statement or policy that is intended to be anti-bigoted. Anti-bigotry is the real bigotry."
Trump's basically the Christopher Columbus of the Republican party. Columbus sailed west because he thought it was a faster way to the Indies. Every intelligent person said, "Don't be a dumbass, the world is much larger than you think. You'll die if you go that way." Columbus, stupidly decided to sail west anyway, and it turned out that his stupidity essentially rewarded him. Following the imbecile's success, intelligent people were able to capitalize on his discovery. DeSantis is that intelligent person. >

They are not even trying to veil the racism any more… >

Anything above remedial studies is over education in Florida. Keep them ignorant so they’re easily manipulated. >

To anyone else who is incensed by this: We are going to have to fight these people eventually. They are not going to back down with this bullshit. >

Well since DeSantis lacks education it’s hard to trust his opinions >

That's the problem. Desantis isn't poorly educated. He has an Ivy League education and clerked for the Supreme Court. He misrepresents that education because the rubes that vote for him consider it a net negative. He knows the damage his policies do, he just doesn't care; so long as he can be president, he's fine with burning the house down. >

Nothing racist here… >

…. Nope just southeast protecting its heritage ….