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Since February, Florida’s public liberal arts college has hired numerous employees with little or no experience in higher education but deep ties to the Republican Party. As the old adage goes, it’s not what you know but who you know that matters. And at New College of Florida, that cliché seems to be playing out in a number of recent hiring decisions.
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.