Posted on 08/04/2023 2:17:27 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Florida has “effectively” banned AP Psychology from being taught in schools, according to a statement from the College Board.
The Florida Department of Education instructed superintendents that “teaching foundational content on sexual orientation and gender identity is illegal under state law,” according to the statement.
....However, the Florida Department of Education said it didn’t ban the course, and blamed the College Board for “playing games.”
“Just one week before school starts, the College Board is attempting to force school districts to prevent students from taking the AP Psychology Course,” the DOE said in a statement. “The Department didn’t ‘ban’ the course. The course remains listed in Florida’s Course Code Directory for the 2023-24 school year. We encourage the College Board to stop playing games with Florida students and continue to offer the course and allow teachers to operate accordingly. The other advanced course providers (including the International Baccalaureate program) had no issue providing the college credit psychology course.”
Local Miami media is bringing out the DeSantis hating homosexual activists and teachers union whiners to attack DeSantis.
Groomers big mad.
Florida DDS news...Miami media is pearl clutching
Well, that’s a start. Now to teach the children to pray.
wow, my psych 101 course (decades ago) never got into the topic of imagined gender/race self-identification.
i imagine that the instructor probably figured that the hans christian anderson childrens’ story of “the emperor with no clothes” probably “covered” it...
Who to believe: the Associated Press or the State of Florida?
There is big a difference between Introduction to Psychology and Abnormal Psychology. Left-progressives believe there is no such thing as normal, therefore no such thing as abnormal. These are both social constructs. As left-progressives took over the academic world, they attacked the former distinctions of normal and abnormal. Homosexuality was no longer abnormal. Nor trans, bestiality, pederasty or what have you.
Obviously, as all advanced life depends on sexual reproduction, this is something fundamental and the psychology of sexual reproduction among humans is a proper subject for introduction to psychology.
If STEM science is being destroyed by the Woke Movement (declared racist), one can only imagine what has happened to behavioral “sciences.”
Why are high school students taking psychology? To start the indoctrination at a younger age?
They're letting the cat out of the bag. Either they don't care or they think it's too late to stop them...
It was an elective for high school seniors in Fargo, ND in 1966.
High school students have no business taking a course in psychology. And it’s truly a pseudoscience anyway.
Same thing with sociology. Durkheim was a functionalist.
I had it as a Senior in high school in 1993.
No deviant behaviors were discussed.
Sadly, the APA is behind a lot of this child exploitation crime. It’s DSM 5 is nothing but a rewrite of psychology to allow groomers.
Were people attending church in greater numbers, the need for psychiatric intervention would be greatly reduced and we would be much happier.
BTW, Psychology is not a science.
It was a so called useless Gut course .
Not surprise those commies politicized it ,
This Sick cold profession closed all the mental wards and let the
insane wander the streets to be murdered and victimized .
My guess is that the educational changes in Florida are going to be attacked by every leftist angle possible. It wouldn’t surprise me that the College Board will expand their attack to include AP Biology.
Psychology 101 (AP-college courses taken in H.S.), based on memory, covers things like:
The senses in order to understand how humans gather information.
Brain function for the same reason.
Various behavior theories and well known psychologists; Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Jung's collective unconscious, classical conditioning (does the name Pavlov ring a bell?), BF Skinner's behaviorism, Sigmund Freud's id, ego and super ego, etc. etc.
The things they are complaining about are more properly placed in an Abnormal Psychology course. Sexual identity issues were listed as mental illness until these current delusions took hold. The DSM - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - used to classify the alphabet soups as having mental illness. Now it is all considered normal because if a trans is told they are not their preferred gender they may exhibit the perfectly normal reaction of shooting up a school.
This is a bull $#!+ effort on the part of "educators" to pretend that the evil DeSantis is preventing them from doing what is right and proper. Classic leftist propaganda; they are very wrong and improper.
Short answer to your indoctrination question: Yes.
AP Psychology is a stupid idea anyway.
“High school students have no business taking a course in psychology.”
AP means “Advanced Placement” It is a course taken by HS seniors that gives them credit for the class in university. thus shortening the length and reducing cost of a university program. Not everyone takes these courses.
But the content of the course can be hideous. I refused to teach an AP history class because of the content
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