Florida students continue to struggle with a board of education more interested in political ideology than academics.
DeSantis’s focus on school curricula emerged in 2022 after former President Donald Trump’s reelection defeat, and subsequent loss of support in the Republican Party.
Prior to 2022, DeSantis was seen as Trump’s loyal protégé, who backed him at every turn. As DeSantis receivedas a possible alternative to Trump, he needed to step out of Trump’s shadow: He tapped into the “parents’ rights movement” that gained momentum during COVID-19 and fixated on education as his primary policy.
Taking a page from Trump’s media playbook, DeSantis’s focus on Florida education is designed to gin up outrage — and coverage. DeSantis branded himself a “moderate” when he ran as governor in 2019, but has shifted even to Trump’s right since hitting the presidential campaign trail. Within just three short years of hisof the Pulse nightclub shooting, he has outlawed any mention of LGBT+ people at schools in a desperate attempt to attract Trump’s base.
Every time the Florida Board of Education bans an AP class, it is effectively making Florida students less competitive when applying to colleges. This gives the College Board a considerable amount of power to pressure the state, since the state risks students having less access to competitive courses recognized by colleges.
As a queer Floridian, I see the College Board’s refusal to censor AP psychology as a small victory: having a few paragraphs in my psychology book about gender and sexuality was better than nothing. Still, Florida students continue to struggle with a board of education more interested in political ideology, optics and elections than academics. As DeSantis continues his presidential bid, it’s likely that Floridians’ education will suffer at the cost of political theater.
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