Fla. bans Advanced Placement psychology class in high schools
The College Board, the non-profit organization that oversees the AP Program, SAT Suite, and BigFuture programs for public and private high school students seeking to attend college, announced Thursday that Florida will not allow public school students to take Advanced Placement psychology, because the course includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Florida Department of Education sent a notice to the state’s Superintendent’s Association Thursday that AP Psychology must be scrubbed of its gender and human sexuality unit in order to continue being taught in Florida classrooms as lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, are topics forbidden by the state’s new laws known colloquially as the “Stop Woke Act” and “Don’t Say Gay” signed by Gov.
Ron DeSantis earlier this year. This censorship of course content will result in students being denied AP designation and, as a result, the college credit earned for completing the course.
The move also comes as the DeSantis administration doubles down on its whitewashing of African American history and peddling of lies about enslaved people “benefiting” from chattel slavery.
