College Board says it won't alter AP courses to comply with Florida's laws

[Nevilledog]

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4051993-college-board-says-it-wont-alter-ap-courses-to-comply-with-floridas-laws/

The College Board released a letter Thursday putting its foot down on further demands from Florida to change any of its Advanced Placement (AP) classes, the latest development in the ongoing feud between the company and the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

“[College Board] will not modify our courses to accommodate restrictions on teaching essential, college-level topics,” the company told the Florida Department of Education Office of Articulation.
“Doing so would break the fundamental promise of AP: colleges wouldn’t broadly accept that course for credit and that course wouldn’t prepare students for careers in the discipline,” it added.

The College Board says the Florida office recently asked it to modify any courses that conflict with the new Florida rule restricting teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom through 12th grade.

In a May 19 letter to College Board, Florida demanded the company do an audit of its courses and relay which ones would need to be modified to comply with the new rule by June 16.

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Good

[dlk]

1. Why should they?

There’s no logical reason to alter the College Board standards to comply with Florida’s subjective and biased standards.

[Biophilic]

2. Good! They shouldn't have given in to them before.

We have to hold the line and not allow these people to white wash history. This is so important.

[GPV]

3. Hear, hear!

[tblue37]

4. Kids graduating from FLA schools are going to face difficulties when seeking scholarships &

applying to college.

[brer cat]

5. They need to keep the FL bigotry out of the other states.

AP courses are for students who want to learn, not regress.

[Raftergirl]

6. Glad they didn't cave to this bully.

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. Excellent!

More please

[Alexander Of Assyria]

8. Drat! Foiled again by not thinking this through...colleges won't give credit for gutted history

courses that don’t teach history.

Disney fiasco first of many resulting from the same warped liar minds…truth getting it’s pants on…

[ShazzieB]

9. FINALLY!

They should have done this to begin with, but better late than never.

Having now read the article, I can see why the College Board put its foot down.

The College Board says the Florida office recently asked it to modify any courses that conflict with the new Florida rule restricting teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom through 12th grade.

In particular, Florida wanted the College Board to remove any any material relating to sexual orientation and gender identity from an AP PSYCHOLOGY course, in order to comply with the state's ridiculous ban on teaching about such topics all the way through the 12th grade. Talk about a bridge too far! The idea of teaching college level psychology without mentioning sex or gender is absolutely ludicrous. Wtf, Florida!

[SouthernDem4ever]

10. Floriduh is really looking more stupid by the day.

Someone tell Suarez he's not in good company.

[Jean Genie]

11. Duh!!!

My god! How awful is Florida - and can it get any worse?!

[keroro gunsou]

14. Don't let them make this into a

“Hold my beer, watch this” sort of challenge.

Besides, there’s still Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi to surpass if they truly wish to claim the crown of “the worst.”

[AltairIV]

12. No need to fear

Well all those students shouldn't despair to much as Deathsentence has ensured them all of jobs in Florida's agriculture industry as pickers.

[OhioTim]

13. What Does "Further Demands"

mean?

[zuul]

15. Good. Fuck that guy.

[Blue Owl]

16. Suck it Ronny you Nazi fuck

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

17. good

[intheflow]

18. They need to reverse the African American decision.

I’m glad they learned from that mistake going forward, but even if the only changes they made were, as they claim, pre-planned, saying that doesn’t exactly assuage my fears that the AAHAP has been whitewashed.

[Takket]

19. good, dictators should not decide what is taught in schools

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. Besides being a lunatic what are DeSantis's qualifications in psychology?