This past week, the College Board announced it will pull its Advanced Placement Psychology class from Florida schools, citing existing conflicts with the state’s Parental Rights in Education Act, known among leftists as the “Don’t Say Gay” law.
According to the statement from the College Board, it’s all Florida’s fault: “Florida Department of Education has effectively banned AP Psychology in the state by instructing Florida superintendents that teaching foundational content on sexual orientation and gender identity is illegal under state law.”
However, according to a statement from the Florida Department of Education, it’s actually the College Board’s fault: “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 other advanced course providers (including the International Baccalaureate program) had no issue providing the college credit psychology course.”
Naturally, nearly every media outlet has taken the side of the College Board. In their telling, the College Board is merely a scrappy nonprofit trying to maintain the integrity and essential standards of its courses, but the knuckle-dragging homophobes led by the alpha troglodyte Gov. Ron DeSantis have aggressively rejected reason.
So the narrative goes. This is all part of a pattern: DeSantis did the same thing to AP African American Studies when, in the media’s telling, he decided to teach that slavery was a good thing in Florida’s learning standards for American history. Almost everything about this story is false. The College Board is making
