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Well done Florida!![/quote]

Yes, indeed.  
And, it is important to note that even African American history teachers had huge concerns about the original curriculum.  Competent teachers, that is.

[twitter]https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1620872293735092224[/twitter]

Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor, a Black Democrat, agreed with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, R., last week that a proposed AP African American history course that was rejected by the state's Department of Education constitutes propaganda rather than a legitimate educational curriculum. DeSantis blocked the course on grounds that it violated the Sunshine State's Stop WOKE Act that was passed last year.

"I think it’s trash," Proctor said about the curriculum.

"There is grave concern about the tone and the tenor of leadership’s voice from the highest spaces in our state being hostile to teaching of African American history," he noted, according to Tallahassee Reports.

"Well frankly I’m against the College Board’s curriculum. I think it’s trash. It’s not African American history. It is ideology," Proctor continued.

"I’ve taught African American history, I’ve structured syllabuses for African American history. I am African American history. And talking about ‘queer’ and ‘feminism’ and all of that for the struggle for freedom and equality and justice has not been no tension with queerness and feminist thought at all," he argued.

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Good for Bill Proctor.

Proctor proposed a 15-member panel to help craft an adequate course that includes, among other topics, [b]the struggle for freedom from slavery, economics, the Black family, societal contributions and poverty.[/b]

And this:  In a tweet last month, Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. said the course was “filled with Critical Race Theory and other obvious violations of Florida law.”

[b]“We proudly require the teaching of African American history,” he said. “We do not accept woke indoctrination masquerading as education.”[/b]

https://www.yahoo.com/now/calling-trash-proctor-pushes-desantis-202114905.html[/quote]

AP clarifies:

[quote]The Times reporting is rife with inaccuracies. Despite their claim that Black feminism is “purged” from the course, the facts are that the course framework explicitly includes this material as required content

Note especially the last required topic: Black lesbians’ special role in developing alternatives to mainstream feminism are cited explicitly, including the Combahee River Collective.

The Times reports that gay experience is not in the course, but deliberately ignores that several explicit references to gay Black Americans were included. In addition to the previous material about the role of Black lesbians, a section was also included in the Civil Rights Movement portion calling out Bayard Rustin and Pauli Murray by name and noting their contributions as required content.[/quote][/quote]

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