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  This was nothing more than a political stunt that like all political stunts accomplished nothing of substance for constituents. Republicans have no desire to govern or do anything that benefits the people, so they invent problems to solve. Now he can say I couldn't do anything about sky high rent and insurance costs or low wages that everyone faces, but I solved the big problem of the woke AP African American course that might impact 0.1% of Florida students.
context: Better question: What isn't in it? >
  
  College Board fucked up--they're never going to get the teachers they need to grade that test after making these changes.  I graded AP tests back in grad school, and I'm still on a lot of mailing lists and slack servers with people who do grading every summer.
  Graders have been unhappy for years--this may be the straw that leads to a full scale riot and mass walk-offs. They've been short on graders for years too, so it's bad timing on their part.
  Meanwhile, the University where I teach just sent out an email for an impromptu meeting to re: no longer accepting this AP test for credit. 
  This isn't going to play out well for college board or DeSantis. >
  
  From the story:
  
  The College Board released a 234-page outline of its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course on Wednesday, two weeks after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration rejected the pilot program and sparked a national political firestorm.  
  The DeSantis administration said the course was pushing a political agenda and had concerns with topics about Black Queer Studies, the Black Lives Matter movement, Black Feminist Literary Thought and reparations. It also raised issues with works from well-known Black scholars and authors such as Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Angela Davis and bell hooks, among others.  
  The pilot curriculum was not released by the DeSantis administration, nor was it published by the College Board, making it difficult to decipher what content was changed.  
  Instead, the Florida Department of Education curated a graphic that broadly outlined the topics it objected to, including the work of Black scholars and writers. The authors included in the state’s objections are not in the official curriculum, an initial review of the coursework found.  
  The required reading list, the College Board said, “is now exclusively primary sources, direct encounters with historical writings, literature, art, music, maps, and data. All secondary sources are now left to local discretion, as is true of the other 39 AP courses,” the College Board added. This is the first time the College Board has developed an AP course on African American history.
  
  You can read the full story here. >
  
  If you call this pushing a political agenda it is one of acceptance, tolerance, understanding. 
  Meanwhile DeSantis is also pushing a political agenda but one of bigotry, hate, and exclusion. >
  
  Everyone’s freaking out about this now because it’s the first time it’s happened. Once the controversy dies down, DeSantis will implement these changes throughout Florida and people will stop reacting to it. Conservatives have learned that if you make it through the initial problem, then you can keep doing things without consequences in the future. Don’t stop fighting against this kind of fascism