AP African American course banned in Florida

Kylie Rowe

Contributing Writer

The week before Black History Month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis rejected an Advanced Placement course that covers African American history. This has resulted in three Florida high school students to sue DeSantis for declining their right to unbiased education.

DeSantis claims that the course is equivalent to “indoctrination” and that impressionable students should not be subject to the topics in this course. Some of these topics include queer theory, abolishing prisons and the reparations movement. DeSantis believes all of these topics are political and that they should not be taught in the classroom. However, Fedrick Ingram, president of theFlorida