Monday, February 20, 2023

GET ME REWRITE: GOP state legislatures fight crime and inflation by 'scrutinizing' AP Black studies course

 
Top headline:   NBC, 10/16/2022
Bottom headline:  Washington Post, 2/18/2023
Scholars say the course offers high school students a deep dive into an essential part of the American experience, one mostly confined to college campuses until now. Major topic areas include the African diaspora; freedom, enslavement and resistance; and movements and debates, including the civil rights movement and discussions of identity and culture. 
But critics contend that inclusion of political topics, along with the use of certain buzzwords, render the class ripe for indoctrination. The course’s arrival at this moment of supercharged political battles over education has put it into the crosshairs of Republicans who in recent years have subjected schools to an extraordinary degree of scrutiny[emphasis added]

"Scrutiny" is a euphemism for this.

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