Lawyers have 3 students ready to sue if Florida bans African-American Studies AP class

[In It to Win It]

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article271651587.html

https://archive.ph/rkJWm

Florida’s Black leaders delivered a warning to Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday that if he doesn’t stop attempts “to exterminate Black history” in Florida classrooms, they would sue him for violating the constitutional rights of students.

“We are here to give notice to Gov. DeSantis,’’ said Ben Crump, a Tallahassee civil rights attorney said to a cheering crowd of supporters in the Capitol Rotunda, as three high school students stood at his side.

They were protesting the announcement last week by the Florida Department of Education that it had rejected a new Advanced Placement elective course on African-American studies, developed by the College Board for high-school students.

“If he does not negotiate with the College Board to allow AP African-American Studies to be taught in the classrooms across the state of Florida, these three young people will be the lead plaintiffs,’’ said Crump, who has represented families in several high-profile civil rights cases.

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[SheilaAnn]

1. DeSantis is an absurdity, Florida and its children deserve so much better. n/t

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[Cha]

3. TY, Ben Crump, & the 3 Students!

[Lithos]

7. Indeed

Time to standup!

[crickets]

4. Good! K&R

[summer_in_TX]

5. If he's smart, he'll take the final curriculum standards

for the Advanced Placement elective course on African-American studies that are to be delivered by the College Board on February 1, accept them, and avoid the lawsuit.

But he's appealing to a white supremacist base and it's doubtful he'll do that.

[Orrex]

6. Seems like only yesterday...

that a self-appointed legal scholar harrumphed at the absurd notion that someone could file a lawsuit over this.

I'm sure that they know much better than Atty Crump et al.

[Marcuse]

8. DeSantis' preferred history textbook.