'Unfathomable': Florida parents, students blast DeSantis idea to nix APs

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Getting rid of AP credits will hurt parents and students. My children each had 20+ hours of AP credit which helped them. DeathSantis is trying to hurt the children in Florida

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://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/02/16/desantis-advanced-placement-parents-students-college-board-international-baccalaureate/

As news zipped across Florida that the governor had threatened to eliminate Advanced Placement classes, some parents discussed moving out of the state to protect their children’s chances at a good education. And high school students, some of them enrolled in AP classes, tried to fathom what was happening.

Prisha Sherdiwala, a 17-year-old junior in Palm Harbor, Fla., is taking three AP classes this year to boost her GPA and to make her more attractive to college admissions officers, a strategy drummed into her by her school counselor. But Sherdiwala has also grown to love the strenuous environment of her AP English Literature, Chemistry and Calculus courses, despite the hours of homework each week.

“In the APs, I am surrounded by other people who enjoy the rigor,” Sherdiwala said. “And I tend to have teachers that are really well-versed in what they are teaching.” What will happen, she wants to know, if all of that goes away her senior year?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) warned Tuesday that he may withdraw state support for AP programs, intensifying his ongoing conflict with the College Board, which oversees all AP classes, including an African American studies course the DeSantis administration says leans left and lacks “educational value.” Earlier this month, the College Board said it was revising the course to eliminate lessons on Black Lives Matter and the reparations movement.

After the College Board said Florida’s criticism of its AP African American studies course amounted to “slander,” DeSantis suggested his state might drop AP classes from its schools. Instead, he said, schools could expand alternatives, such as the International Baccalaureate and Cambridge Assessment programs, which, like AP classes, permit students to earn college credit by passing an exam.

[grumpyduck]

1. Keep pissing off the voters, asshole,

and hopefully they'll vote your sorry ass out of office.

[SoCalDavidS]

5. He Just Got Elected OVERWHELMINGLY

He runs that state. There's too many Right Wing MAGA Morons living there now. He doesn't have to even run again until 2026, and that's if he doesn't get enough Idiots in the country to make him President.

[In It to Win It]

12. He's term limited. He can't run in 2026

[SoCalDavidS]

13. I Wouldn't Put It Past Him To Attempt Changing That Law

They pretty much control the entire state government. If it's possible to do, he'll try.

[NBachers]

2. This guy is such a fucking hemorrhoid

[h2ebits]

3. Would you please give us the archive link to this artlcle

I'd like to post it on FaceBook and I don't know how to access the archive link.

Thanks!

[grumpyduck]

6. Sorry, I don't know what an archive link is.

[h2ebits]

11. The Washington Post is a paid subscription.

Sometimes, people post an article link and then also post the article as an archived link, which eliminates the need for a subscription and anyone can click the link to read the article. I don't know how to locate the archive links to post them. Perhaps someone who does know will help.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. DICKtators being DICKs.

That's Ronnie in a nutshell.

[Rebl2]

8. 👆👆👆

[cyclonefence]

7. I wonder if these whack-a-doo school rulings

are having any effect on real estate values? In my day, school district reputation was one of the chief reasons to choose one neighborhood (or city or even state) over another when we were moving. I would not want to live in a school district which did not offer AP courses or which restricted in any way what students were allowed to learn.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. "Good Schools" is a motivating factor for many.

Florida is going to suffer big time in the long run.

Republicans after Ronnie D is done ruining it, will continue the same playbook. Punish teachers, if any remain at the K-College levels, run Florida into the ground as they continue to fight major employers who have diverse work forces(Mayo Clinic), and continue BANNING living life itself.

Ronnie D and his bunch are doing a bang-up job turning Florida into a SHITHOLE state.

[Timeflyer]

10. People are already thinking about leaving, or not moving here,

esp. women, LGBTQ, educated folks, potential teachers, blacks, people who recognize authoritarianism, just anyone who likes democracy. This isn't how it's supposed to be in America--I don't understand his appeal to so many or why he won reelection. But his supporters are as rabid as tRumps were. The infection tRump started is spreading like wild-fire here. and many magats move here because of DeSadist's crowing about FL being the place where "woke" went to die. What's dying here were COVID patients (he doesn't care because the dead can't vote) and, now, representative democracy.

The real impact on real estate values will be delayed. It will take awhile for people who aren't paying attention now to DeSadist's efforts to bankrupt and destroy public education to realize how he's effecting their own kids' education. But the damage will be done.