DeSantis defends rejecting AP African American studies course, says it's 'indoctrination'

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DeSantis defends rejecting AP African American studies course, says it's 'indoctrination'
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The Florida Department of Education sent a letter to the College Board on Jan. 12 objecting to the course.

where he said,"We have to encourage and develop practices whereby queerness isn't a surrender to the status quos of race, class, gender and sexuality. It means building forms of queerness that reject the given realities of the government and the market."

DeSantis also noted his department's issue with the"Movements for Black Lives" topic, including the movement to eliminate prisons and jails. In their list of concerns, the FDOE also characterized"intersectionality," or the connection of race, class and gender and how they are applied to a certain group, as"foundational to [critical race theory]."

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