Outrage as Arkansas tells high schools to drop AP African American course

[Jilly_in_VA]

Advocacy groups are outraged after the Arkansas department of education warned state high schools not to offer an advanced placement course on African American history.

The admonition from Arkansas education officials is the latest example of conservative lawmakers limiting education on racial history, sexual orientation and other topics they label as “indoctrination”.

The Arkansas Education Association (AEA), a professional organization of educators in the state, said the latest decision is of “grave concern” to its members and other citizens worried about “the abandonment of teaching African American history and culture”.

“Having this course pulled out from under our students at this late juncture is just another marginalizing move that has already played out in other states,” said a statement from AEA president April Reisma, which was shared with the Guardian.

In a statement to the Guardian, NAACP president and chief executive officer Derrick Johnson called the decision “abhorrent” and an “attempt to strip high school students of an opportunity to get a jumpstart on their college degree”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/15/arkansas-high-school-african-american-ap-course

Because the reactionaries claim it's "Critical Race Theory"

[walkingman]

1. No, indoctrination was when we were taught in public schools

that "Manifest Destiny" was the United States is destined by God to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent. It was used to rationalize the removal of
American Indians from their native homelands and used to validate acquisitions in the Oregon Country, Texas, New Mexico, and California.

Not a mention of American imperialism - pure whitewashing of American history and it continues even today.

[emulatorloo]

2. I wish Arkansas hadn't elected Sarah Sanders and these lunatics.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Sarah is a beard, a stooge, placed out front. Who is actually running Arkansas?