The Florida Department of Education is right. The new Advanced Placement course in African American studies probably violates the state’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act, which restricts what schools can teach about race.
That’s why Florida students should violate a different law and refuse to go to school until the course is approved.
Nobody yet knows how the AP African American studies course is “contrary to Florida law,” as a state education spokesperson said, but we can guess. Signed last year by Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has made history instruction into a key campaign bludgeon, the state’s Stop W.O.K.E. law prohibits any lesson telling a student that “he or she must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress for actions, in which he or she played no part.”
