Florida officials tell state schools to teach AP Psychology 'in its entirety'
Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. has instructed Florida school officials to teach College Board's AP Psychology course "in its entirety," according to a letter obtained by ABC News from the state Department of Education.
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DeSantis is gonna have such a big boy tantrum
great, cus i just stocked up on popcorn. between destantis and trump i'll gain 5 pounds.
Hey, look at that, an educator standing up for education in Florida. Florida man isn't going to like that.
Manny Diaz Jr. is a DeSantis lackey, he was handpicked for this position by DeSantis, this is more of a case of them not wanting to lose the state's advanced placement accreditations.
Also DeSantis may not like it but he's got a whole bunch of other problems rn.
I'm okay with people doing the right things for the wrong reasons.
This Florida man is not unhappy about this at all.
So, how long should we expect until Mr. Diaz Jr. finds himself without a job for speaking out against the "will of the state"?
The problem is he’s probably trying to set up teachers as scapegoats for his survival strategy
Can someone tldr all this Florida shit? It seems to me Florida teachers aren't allowed to teach basic....well education unless they're including some weird Christian shit.
Well I know an AP English lit teacher in Florida who has been told he is not even allowed to teach Vonnegut, and has been instructed to teach parts of the Bible. Does that help?
AP psych courses have stricter standards than other courses (so that they qualify as AP). AP psych standards, for 30ish years, have required instructions on gender identity.
Did you teach AP psychology for college credit?
Ok, but this is only about the high school AP psychology curriculum
AP curricula are standardized, every high school AP psych class covers the exact same material and has the same test. On the other hand, intro college classes, like the one you taught, can vary from school to school or even between professors. The AP psych curriculum including a couple more subjects than you include in your curriculum certainly doesn't meet any definition of "radically different."
Other professors do include this material. And AP psych is supposed to mimic a psych 101 course, but it doesn't have to mimic your course.