Just 48 hours before the first day of school, the Arkansas Department of Education announced that Advanced Placement African American Studies wouldn’t count towards graduation. They said they’re reviewing the course for possible indoctrination.
Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders went on Fox News to explain her administration’s decision to de-prioritize AP African American studies.
“We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students, and push this propaganda leftist agenda, teaching our kids to hate America, and hate one another," she said.
Sanders has not pointed to anything specific in the AP African American Studies curriculum. The Arkansas Department of Education notified teachers that they’d deleted the course code for AP African American Studies. That means students can’t get graduation credit for taking it.
In a further statement, taken during a break from looking for truffles, Sarah Sanders stated she loved Black people, and everyone should own one.
Notice the crowd that wanted all the confederate statues around is completely silent about an actual history course being attacked by special interest groups. It’s almost like the only common goal is racism.
Never, ever take their arguments as if they’re made in good faith. It’s never about history, or religious freedom, or ensuring fair elections, or “reverse racism,” or states’ rights. It’s never about parental rights, or keeping children safe, or freedom of speech.
It is always just about being able to do what they want, much of which is making sure other people can’t do what they want. It’s about enshrining racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia in law.
There are no honest arguments coming from the conservatives at this point. The age of disagreeing over tax policy is over. Bill Buckley and George Will and their actual conservatives are gone. It’s Trumpism now.
It’s always about hate, not history.
Unfortunately, the crowd who most needs to notice resides at the bottom-side of our 6th grade literacy rate.
So anyone wanting to read what the AP course covers, guess what? It’s been up for public review for nearly ten years. You too can literally read about every aspect that the course covers!
So you don’t have to fear “IF” this is evil, evil indoctrination because you can read it for yourself and come to a conclusion. ALL. ON. YOUR. OWN! Shocker! Something, apparently, the governor cannot be bothered with.
How professional of them to take off their Klan hoods for this announcement.
Would it be possible for the AP board to refuse then to recognize any AP courses and tests from Arkansas?
Wow. That sounds like a great idea.
Colleges could also start to refuse admissions/not recognize accreditations from these backward places.
That’ll damage the children of the powerful
College is about learning how to think for yourself. That’s why it’s so threatening to these people.
People with power aren’t going to these colleges. Obviously. This is about keeping the poor too stupid to threaten the rich.
You think that if the big, reasonable state schools and ivy leagues deny entry to people from unreasonable state controlled high schools that won’t have an effect?
The powerful would simply add money to the equation and would come out on top. This would really harm poor children who actually worked hard on their AP courses.
AP courses are already worthless here. To the point that parents are keeping their kids out of AP Payoff. because it’s just more work with no real payoff.
