{"id":1820999,"date":"2023-01-23T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1820999"},"modified":"2023-01-23T18:06:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:06:38","slug":"florida-democrat-defends-controversial-hs-class-teach-black-queerness-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-democrat-defends-controversial-hs-class-teach-black-queerness-black-lives-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Democrat Defends Controversial HS Class: Teach \u2018Black Queerness,\u2019 \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-democrat-defends-controversial-hs-class-teach-black-queerness-black-lives-matter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1820999&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A Florida Democratic lawmaker in favor of teaching a controversial AP African American Studies in high schools blasted the state on Monday, arguing that students shouldn\u2019t be shielded from BLM or \u201cblack queerness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Florida Department of Education published\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/contrary-to-florida-law-desantis-rejects-high-school-course-emerging-nationwide-over-wokeness-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">informed<\/a> the board that the course\u2019s content lacked educational value, taking special issue with sections on \u201cQueer Black Studies,\u201d The reparations movement, \u201cmovements for black lives,\u201d There are many others. State Senator Shevrin Jones, a Democrat however, suggested to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/01\/23\/1150716064\/florida-ap-african-american-studies\">NPR<\/a> These topics should not be avoided, but rather embraced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the things that they were speaking about in it were talking about the black struggle, it was talking about the Black Lives Matter movement, it spoke about black queerness. \u2026 These are not issues that we should be shying away from, or shielding away from students,\u201d Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who signed legislation last year preventing the state\u2019s government schools from teaching discrimination on the basis of race, color, or sex, detailed a number of his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLVoiceNews\/status\/1617550727534252032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concerns<\/a> Monday. They include the way that the curriculum incorporates esoteric academic theories in what is referred to in legacy media as an history course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow who would say that an important part of black history is queer theory? That is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids, and so when you look to see they have stuff about intersectionality, abolishing prisons, that\u2019s a political agenda. And so, that\u2019s the wrong side of the line for Florida standards,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education indicated that it would reconsider its decision of blocking the course if there were changes to the curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Although proponents of teaching African American Studies argue that these courses promote holistic thinking about American history and culture, critics point out that the curriculum focuses primarily on narratives of grievance and left-wing advocacy. The College Board\u2019s website suggests that a major in the subject can prepare a student for only <a href=\"https:\/\/apstudents.collegeboard.org\/choosing-courses\/major-career-results\/major\/african-american-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one<\/a>\u00a0Career field, activism, and community organizing. However, the organization states that a history major could prepare students for a career in this area.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apstudents.collegeboard.org\/choosing-courses\/major-career-results\/major\/history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multitude<\/a>\u00a0Many career options are available, including law, anthropology and foreign service.<\/p>\n<p>The College Board currently offers the course in a pilot program at several dozen schools. This is to allow high school students to get college credit prior to attending university.<\/p>\n<p>The College Board has not yet made public the African American studies curriculum. They claim that the information contains proprietary information. It is likely that the course will undergo modifications before being implemented nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida Democratic lawmaker in favor of teaching a controversial AP African American Studies in high schools blasted the state on Monday, arguing that students shouldn\u2019t be shielded from BLM or \u201cblack queerness.\u201d The Florida Department of Education recently\u00a0informed the board that the course\u2019s content lacked educational value, taking special issue with sections on \u201cQueer &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":1821002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4212,6123,4803,4549,4912,5113,4216,4219,16181,5834],"class_list":["post-1820999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-black","tag-class","tag-controversial","tag-defends","tag-democrat","tag-florida","tag-lives","tag-matter","tag-queerness","tag-teach"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1821002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}