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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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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DeSantis is gonna have such a big boy tantrum

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

great, cus i just stocked up on popcorn. between destantis and trump i'll gain 5 pounds.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, look at that, an educator standing up for education in Florida. Florida man isn't going to like that.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I'm okay with people doing the right things for the wrong reasons.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This Florida man is not unhappy about this at all.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, how long should we expect until Mr. Diaz Jr. finds himself without a job for speaking out against the "will of the state"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The problem is he’s probably trying to set up teachers as scapegoats for his survival strategy

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back when I took psychology. Gender and sexuality were a small snippet of the course.

You didn’t really cover those topics till human sexuality.

I have taught basic psychology for over ten years and it was something I never covered. Wonder when they started to add it. Basic psychology was more focused on well, basic topics. Theory, history, etc.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you teach AP psychology for college credit?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. I taught it at a university for people getting a degree in psychology.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, but this is only about the high school AP psychology curriculum

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m aware. The class is supposed to mimic the psychology 101 course. AP courses meet the requirement to award college credit for those courses.

If the two are radically different then the college should not accept the AP course for credit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.