Commentary: Florida students should stage boycott to save African American course
by Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune
Jan 23, 2023
3 minutes
The Florida Department of Education is right. The new Advanced Placement course in African American studies probably violates the state’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act, which restricts what schools can teach about race.
That’s why Florida students should violate a different law and refuse to go to school until the course is approved.
Nobody yet knows how the AP African American studies course is “contrary to Florida law,” as a state education spokesperson said, but we can guess. Signed last
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