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Thursday, August 17th, 2023

Outrage as Arkansas tells high schools to drop AP African American course

Author:     Gloria Oladipo
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Tue 15 Aug 2023 | 14.35 EDT
 Link: Outrage as Arkansas tells high schools to drop AP African American course
Stephan:  

Arkansas is a Red state with very poor social outcome data, and now it is worse. in Arkansas 15.6% of the population are Black. But to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the state’s christofascist governor, their interests don’t matter. Students will no longer be taught anything about the contribution and history of Black people. It will all be European history, and christofascist indoctrination. Nor will they get science-based psychology courses. Huckabee’s nastiness is part of the growing destruction of American education in Red states all over the country. This is going to have a generation long impact. And once again please note this story appeared in the leading British newspaper, a publication read all over the world, and this is what America looks like to non-Americans all over the world.

Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, right, and Arkansas secretary of education Jacob Oliva discuss several aspects of the Learns Act on 14 April. Credit: Nena Zimmer / AP

Advocacy groups are outraged after the Arkansas department of education warned state high schools not to offer an advanced placement course on African American history.

The admonition from Arkansas education officials is the latest example of conservative lawmakers limiting education on racial history, sexual orientation and other topics they label as “indoctrination”.

The Arkansas Education Association (AEA), a professional organization of educators in the state, said the latest decision is of “grave concern” to its members and other citizens worried about “the abandonment of teaching African American history and culture”.

“Having this course pulled out from under our students at this late juncture is just another marginalizing move that has already played out in other states,” said a statement from AEA president April Reisma, which was shared with the Guardian.

In a statement to the Guardian, NAACP president and chief executive officer Derrick Johnson called the decision “abhorrent” and an “attempt to strip high school students of […]

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1 Comment

  1. Wilma on Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 11:43 am

    Wouldn’t be great if a student group got together to LOUDLY protest the withholding of important educational information that might jeopardize their admittance to the college of their choice.?!?!