The Arkansas Department of Education says the course code was removed so they could search the class curriculum for “indoctrination.”

Just 48 hours before the first day of school, the Arkansas Department of Education announced that Advanced Placement African American Studies wouldn’t count towards graduation. They said they’re reviewing the course for possible indoctrination.

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders went on Fox News to explain her administration’s decision to de-prioritize AP African American studies.

“We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students, and push this propaganda leftist agenda, teaching our kids to hate America, and hate one another," she said.

Sanders has not pointed to anything specific in the AP African American Studies curriculum. The Arkansas Department of Education notified teachers that they’d deleted the course code for AP African American Studies. That means students can’t get graduation credit for taking it.

  • CaptainAlcohol@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In the meantime, we also have a clear example of actual indoctrination:

    “We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students, and push this propaganda leftist agenda, teaching our kids to hate America, and hate one another,” she said."

    I can’t do much about any of this but i can say that you certainly cannot prevent people from discussing this in other settings, and i (hope) think this “ban” will just raise awarness on these themes