In a sharp break from Arkansas education officials, the Little Rock School District said in a news release it will offer AP African American Studies for credit.
Little Rock is newsworthy because of its historical significance in the Civil Rights era:
The Little Rock School district includes Central High School, the scene of a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights era. In 1957, nine Black students enrolled to test the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that declared segregated public schools unconstitutional. On their first day of school, the students were met with an angry White mob that rejected integrated schools and the National Guard blocking the entrance.
“We are fortunate to have one of the foremost subject matter experts leading the instruction at Central High School who has expressed that her students are enthusiastic about the opportunity to take the course,” the district said. “AP African American Studies will allow students to explore the complexities, contributions, and narratives that have shaped the African American experience throughout history, including Central High School’s integral connection.”
Glad to see the school district stand up to their wacko leaders. Critical Race theory has been such bogeyman for conservatives who have no understanding of what it means of where it’s taught (college).
That title had to be clickbait and it got me. Here I was fully believing segregation had come back to Arkansas in some capacity.
I’m assuming you thought they were allowing a class of African Americans to graduate…?
It’s not clickbait just because you misinterpreted it.
Its not clickbait, it’s just really ambiguously worded because they omitted the word “studies”
Vague misunderstandings and questionable titles have been utilized constantly by nearly all major print news entities for a full century. It’s the original clickbait, and colloquially known as a crash blossom. My paper on it was titled “Titled Media.”
@girlfreddy
The audience is people who have been following the news. Recent events are the context that make this make perfect sense. You can take a headline from 10 years ago and it won’t make any sense without context, too.
It’s a crash blossom and intentional. Omitting words for news speak is specifically meant to promote ambiguity. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, to have been downvoted for being completely right.
@gullible @MicroWave @glimse @[email protected]
You were right. The downvotes are from people who’ve become used to AI editorship, something I abhor.
I just realized, you’re from mastodon.social. How have you managed to follow what’s going on in this thread? I tried reading lemmy/kbin posts from mastodon and had a fair bit of trouble navigating their comments. UI update? App update?
@gullible @MicroWave @glimse @[email protected]
I’m on an app called Megalodon, a fork of the Mastodon app. It’s on both the App store and Google play.
I love it. 👍
No.
