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  So one governor out of 50 throws a bigoted Karen tantrum and the College Board acquiesced immediately.  
  That is such an idiotic standard to set based off the ignorance and hatred of one politically motivated white man.
context: Get on it California and blue states. 
  “We will not offer these watered down exams.”
  Don’t let Florida and Texas lead the way with their terrible educational standards. >
  
  They should also go as far to not accept credits for these studies in states that have stripped away the content like that. >
  
  It's becoming more and more common for colleges not to accept AP credits for major-required classes anyway. >
  
  Even when I was in college 20 years ago (wow I feel old) I mainly just got units for AP credits, but otherwise all it did was allow me to skip a level in a calc class (anybody could skip by taking a test).
  It did allow me to be the laziest college student and take under the unit minimum 3 times while still graduating in 4 years. I learned the hack is to enroll in enough classes, then drop a class after they check unit minimum but before the drop deadline. >
  
  
  anybody could skip by taking a test
  
  This should be the standard anyway for colleges. They provide a test, students either pass or don't pass. 
  That way even if your school doesn't offer AP in a course, you can study up and get your own credits. >
  
  The college I went to did that for foreign languages, but I think that was all. >
  
  Mine did it for foreign languages and math. Foreign language is actually really easy to test, because there's international standards for ranking capabilities. >
  
  I knew people who deliberately bombed language exams so they could go into the beginner stream rather than the advanced stream. It made no difference to the number of units they were taking or the duration of their time studying, it just made their study load easier. That is until they generally shot themselves in the foot by being way too fluent or speaking/writing with regional idioms they couldn’t have learned in the standard language classes i.e. slipping in Milanese phrases with a lecturer/tutor from Milan or dropping Lebanese phrasings in an Arabic class. 
  It doesn’t really change that there should be the option to skip ahead for those who want it, it was just funny watching people fuck up when they thought they’d found a way to make their life easier. >
  
  Yeah I studied french and german in college, spent a year in germany, and coming back had more trouble in my german classes because I wasn't doing things the academically correct way anymore. >
  
  On the first day of Black History Month, the GOP gets it’s wish of watered down American history. >
  
  They’re really trying to erase all history and replace it with propaganda so kids will stop asking why their quality of life is comparably worse than the generation before them and accept fascism as a way of life. >
  
  They’re specifically trying to whitewash Black history though. >
  
  It starts here, not far down the road is education on the holocaust. >
  
  They're already working on that too. We have several holocaust deniers in Congress. >
  
  Putting the "reich" in reich-wing >
  
  
  After heavy criticism from Gov. Ron DeSantis, the College Board released on Wednesday an official curriculum for its new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies —  stripped of much of the subject matter that had angered the governor and other conservatives.
  The College Board purged the names of many Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience and Black feminism. It ushered out some politically fraught topics, like Black Lives Matter, from the formal curriculum.
  And it added something new: “Black conservatism” is now offered as an idea for a research project.
  
  What a joke. >
  
  So one intolerant asshole gets to dictate the curriculum for everyone. Minority rule strikes again. >
  
  Don't let the College Board off the hook here. They could have stood their ground but decided it was more profitable to perform the censorship some states demanded. It's all about the $$$ >
  
  Time for CA, NY, IL, MA and other blue states to pull out the funding then. >
  
  Exactly. Texas and Florida may have large populations on their own, but the combined populations (and better colleges) of blue states can easily out number that and put a hurting on the College Board and textbook manufacturers. >
  
  Unfortunately Florida has 3 of the top 10 largest ones. >
  
  Texas and Florida combined have only about 100,000 more students than California alone. (2.7 million in FL+TX, 2.6 million in CA). Add in New York and the top two blue states outnumber the top two red states by over a million students. >
  
  And then there's Massachusetts, whose capital is basically 45324 top level universities in a trench coat. >
  
  Cool so we do negotiate with terrorists now >
  
  This wasn't a negotiation but a capitulation