Arkansas rejected the course as the school year began, saying it wouldn't count for credit toward graduation and the course was a form of indoctrination.

AP African American Studies will be taught after all at the six schools in Arkansas that planned to offer it until state officials said last week students taking the course wouldn’t earn high school credit for it and raised concerns about whether it’s a form of “indoctrination.”

  • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    65·
    1 year ago

    “District leaders believe that the AP African American Studies course will be a valuable addition to the district’s curriculum and will help our young people understand and appreciate the rich diversity of our society,” said Jeremy Owoh, the superintendent of the Jacksonville North Pulaski School District. The district’s only high school, Jacksonville High, will offer the class as an elective, he said.

    And there’s this historical significance:

    Central High School in the Little Rock School District also will offer the course as planned, the district said. The school was among the first in the nation to integrate in 1957.

  • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    Get absolutely fucked, Arkansas. I hope they’re doing this to springboard the issue into a lawsuit. It’s ACLU’s wet dream.