Protests arise amid De Santis’ change to course material

SACHA WEDNER STAFF WRITER

OnFeb 28, the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) president, Kaye Wise Whitehead, released an email statement in regards to Florida governor Ron De Santis’ attempts to delegitimize AP African American Studies curriculum and pressuring the CollegeBoard against making revisions to these courses. This isn’t anything unique, as similar instances over the last two and a half years have seen courses focusing on similar subjects being targeted for supposedly being “woke”. These actions were not met without opposition. In light of De Santis’ action, thirty LGBT advocacy groups signed a letter calling for the resignation of CollegeBoard CEO David Coleman. The reasons for this are the College Board lacked the clari ty needed when talking with the Florida Board of Education, and failed to realize the harm of accusations of a “woke” agenda among curriculum until it was too late.

The NWSA stated that they “write now as part of a broader campaign to keep pressure on College Board and elevate the wider crises of appeasement.” College Board would initially deny that politics had no influence in the decision to approve these course revisions, contradicting the words of a spokesperson that exposed College Board for admitting that they relinquished the term “intersectionality” in response to the campaign against “woke” concepts being discussed in the classroom.

Whitehead said that similar logic may have played a part in “expungement of oth