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Florida rejected the Advanced Placement course in African American studies in January due to its lessons on reparations, the Black […] The post Florida officials discussed ‘lack of opposing viewpoints’ before banning AP African American studies course appeared first on TheGrio.

Exactly how is one to teach about chattel slavery except from a "viewpoint" of an "oppressor vs. oppressed" in the United States? 

State officials at times pushed to include perspectives from “the other side” but failed to elaborate whose perspective they wanted added.

A lesson in the AP course focused on how Europeans benefited from trading enslaved people and the materials enslaved laborers produced. The state objected to the content.

Local leaders are reacting after the Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for Black History courses.

The Florida Board of Education has recently given its approval for new standards aimed at teaching Black history in public schools.

The backlash became a demand last week for the Florida Department of Education to re-think and re-do parts of the new African American history standards that led to national debate.

The Florida Board of Education’s officials say the new academic standards for African American History are meant to “cement” the state as a national leader in education, but critics say is doing the opposite.

During Friday’s task force meeting, we learned the Florida Department of Education changed the program’s agenda, cutting it down from two days to one.

The vice-chair of the Florida Commissioner of Education’s African American History Task Force, Dr. Samuel Wright, has resigned.