It looks like Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis will have the College Board to kick around again.
Three months after DeSantis’ criticism and objections forced the board to ditch anti-white references in its curriculum materials for an Advanced Placement African-American Studies course, the organization announced it would put them back in this week.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, the board is doing so because of complaints by black activists.
The board, a nonprofit that also administers the SAT, said on Monday that its “scholars and experts have decided they will make changes to the latest course framework” in order to “ensure the course best reflects” the “dynamic discipline,” the Free Beacon noted.
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DeSantis had complained about the course and suggested the state of Florida would look for an alternative to the board’s offerings, because of some topics.
Those included the exploration of black queer studies, “movements for Black lives,” “Black feminist literary thought,” “intersectionality and activism” and “the reparations movement.”
The board removed some and changed others while denying it did so because of DeSantis.
“Now, however, the College Board is again revising the course, this time after critical race theorists and leftwing activists complained about the controversial subjects being cut from the curriculum,” the Free Beacon noted.
“Several academics launched petitions calling for revisions of the advanced high school course. The College Board’s Monday decision comes after an activist think tank called the African American Policy Forum planned a nationwide protest partly in response to the ‘anti-woke’ revisions of the course.”
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According to the Free Beacon, the African American Policy Forum asserted on its website, “We demand that the College Board restore critical concepts, scholarship, and frameworks to the African American Studies course, and to resist pending demands from other states to bend to their ‘anti-woke’ orthodoxy.”
The College Board will determine what changes to make “over the next few months,” it says on its website.
“Black studies scholars want the curriculum to cover topics including reparations, Black Lives Matter, and intersectionality” — which is the left-wing academic theory that says your identity determines whether one is the oppressed or the oppressor — the Free Beacon noted.
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