Florida bans AP African-American Studies course from schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the claim that "OF COURSE students are taught about black history."

Someone put that to the test, and asked Georgia students if they were aware of the racial cleansing that took place in Forsyth County GA, 1912, in which mobs of whites threatened, intimidated and murdered blacks until virtually every black person left the county.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_racial_conflict_in_Forsyth_County,_Georgia

Turned out from the survey that 89% of Georgia students had never been taught about this incident and had absolutely no idea. And I doubt many of you were taught that, either.

I’m not surprised. This is exactly the kind of shared history that intelligent people want taught and the kind of true facts history that Republicans want to bury.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the claim that "OF COURSE students are taught about black history."

Someone put that to the test, and asked Georgia students if they were aware of the racial cleansing that took place in Forsyth County GA, 1912, in which mobs of whites threatened, intimidated and murdered blacks until virtually every black person left the county.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_racial_conflict_in_Forsyth_County,_Georgia

Turned out from the survey that 89% of Georgia students had never been taught about this incident and had absolutely no idea. And I doubt many of you were taught that, either.

I’m not surprised. This is exactly the kind of shared history that intelligent people want taught and the kind of true facts history that Republicans want to bury.

I knew about it.

I asked earlier for a link to the survey. I cannot find any information on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the claim that "OF COURSE students are taught about black history."

Someone put that to the test, and asked Georgia students if they were aware of the racial cleansing that took place in Forsyth County GA, 1912, in which mobs of whites threatened, intimidated and murdered blacks until virtually every black person left the county.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_racial_conflict_in_Forsyth_County,_Georgia

Turned out from the survey that 89% of Georgia students had never been taught about this incident and had absolutely no idea. And I doubt many of you were taught that, either.

I’m not surprised. This is exactly the kind of shared history that intelligent people want taught and the kind of true facts history that Republicans want to bury.

I knew about it.

I asked earlier for a link to the survey. I cannot find any information on it.

I’m not sure what your post is meant to show. I’m not the person who posted the link-less survey result, but IIRC from the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, it didn’t seem like the average American knew much about Black history or how Black history IS American history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the claim that "OF COURSE students are taught about black history."

Someone put that to the test, and asked Georgia students if they were aware of the racial cleansing that took place in Forsyth County GA, 1912, in which mobs of whites threatened, intimidated and murdered blacks until virtually every black person left the county.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_racial_conflict_in_Forsyth_County,_Georgia

Turned out from the survey that 89% of Georgia students had never been taught about this incident and had absolutely no idea. And I doubt many of you were taught that, either.

I’m not surprised. This is exactly the kind of shared history that intelligent people want taught and the kind of true facts history that Republicans want to bury.

I knew about it.

I asked earlier for a link to the survey. I cannot find any information on it.

I’m not sure what your post is meant to show. I’m not the person who posted the link-less survey result, but IIRC from the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, it didn’t seem like the average American knew much about Black history or how Black history IS American history.

+1 It was pretty clear that very few people knew about the Tulsa massacre before Trump planned a rally on the anniversary, or Juneteenth before it became a federal holiday. There’s information earlier in this thread indicating that events like this that happened in Florida aren’t being taught to Florida students. https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/06/07/gov-ron-desantis-targets-critical-race-theory-as-florida-examines-academic-standards/
https://news.yahoo.com/florida-race-massacre-rosewood-1923-erased-from-history-163323201.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr&utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the claim that "OF COURSE students are taught about black history."

Someone put that to the test, and asked Georgia students if they were aware of the racial cleansing that took place in Forsyth County GA, 1912, in which mobs of whites threatened, intimidated and murdered blacks until virtually every black person left the county.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_racial_conflict_in_Forsyth_County,_Georgia

Turned out from the survey that 89% of Georgia students had never been taught about this incident and had absolutely no idea. And I doubt many of you were taught that, either.

I’m not surprised. This is exactly the kind of shared history that intelligent people want taught and the kind of true facts history that Republicans want to bury.

I knew about it.

I asked earlier for a link to the survey. I cannot find any information on it.

I’m not sure what your post is meant to show. I’m not the person who posted the link-less survey result, but IIRC from the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, it didn’t seem like the average American knew much about Black history or how Black history IS American history.

+1 It was pretty clear that very few people knew about the Tulsa massacre before Trump planned a rally on the anniversary, or Juneteenth before it became a federal holiday. There’s information earlier in this thread indicating that events like this that happened in Florida aren’t being taught to Florida students. https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/06/07/gov-ron-desantis-targets-critical-race-theory-as-florida-examines-academic-standards/
https://news.yahoo.com/florida-race-massacre-rosewood-1923-erased-from-history-163323201.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr&utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

Not only are they not taught, but Florida and other white supremacist states are trying to make it illegal for teachers to even mention some of these incidents. You know, because the White students might “feel bad,” and that can’t be allowed to happen.

[Anonymous]

Arkansas tried a similar ban and it didn’t work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arkansas tried a similar ban and it didn’t work.

whoever thought AR would be more educated in this respect than FL. Pretty embarrassing for FL.

[Anonymous]

Florida lets veterans with high school diplomas teach in their schools.

https://www.fldoe.org/veterans/

[Anonymous]

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I say we move the capital of the US to Tallahassee.

Leaders there make sense and clearly work to protect the general interest. Kinda the opposite of what happens here in DC.

Please explain. How does it "make sense and protect the general interest" to censor and suppress the teaching of actual US history?

Very simple. What happened was the opposite of what you said happened. The College Board got rid of the woke stuff that had nothing to do with AA Studies and should have never ever been there. Want to study Intersectional Queer Radicalism for Dummies? Be my guest, but don't try to shovel that into an AA Studies AP class.

See? Very simple. Florida protected the general interest of teaching actual history, not propaganda.

Um, here’s what actually Florida was doing: the state objected to a lesson about slavery, saying it “may lead to a viewpoint of an ‘oppressor vs. oppressed’ based solely on race or ethnicity"
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article278582149.html