Black history class revised by College Board amid criticism

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — High school senior Kahlila Bandele is used to courses that don’t address the African American experience. Then there’s her 9 a.m. class. This week, it spanned topics from Afro-Caribbean migration to jazz.

The discussion in her Advanced Placement course on African American studies touched on figures from Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X to Jimi Hendrix and Rihanna. In her AP European History course, she said, “we’re not discussing Black people at all” — even though they were colonized by Europeans.

Her school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is one of 60 schools around the country testing the new course, which has gained national attention since Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis threatened to ban it in his state. The rejection has stirred new political debate over how schools teach about race.

The official curriculum for the course, released Wednesday by the College Board, downplays some components that had drawn criticism from DeSantis and other conservatives. Topics including Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer life are not part of the exam. Instead, they are included only on a sample list states and school systems can choose from for student projects.

https://apnews.com/article/black-history-ap-african-american-studies-class-722fb29dbaa13dd5c42d70c5129df48e

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1. CB all but screamed that DeSantis had nothing to do with their changes.

Their justifications were valid.

The time period from DeSantis' objections to the release of the course and exam description was short. This is CB. You want to revise a CED there's a lot of data funneled through committees that sends data to a committee before being vetted by a committee. Takes *weeks* to put a committee together.

They're are also exquisitely aware that every AP student is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

But (R) like that their warrior-prince took on the woke CB dragon and brought it to heel.

and (D) like to cry that the weakling CB was cowed and, in the course of a couple short weeks, kow-towed, genuflected, and otherwise performed kneeled rituals to placate the foe.

I see no reason to twice-victimize CB when utter non-victimization is an option. They ignored DeSantis. They followed their own drummer. DeSantis--de minimis. CB not vanquished. But so many need it to be one or the other. As far as i is concerned, that's my axis in this dispute; I often prefer my plane to be complex.