“Young children don’t have the capacity to debate and determine the veracity of some of these notions,” he said. Additionally, he said, AP courses are voluntary.
“The other is not,” he said, referring to the standards for middle school students. “The standards will be for all students. They don’t have a choice.”
Gallon said the bipartisan criticism the new standards have drawn should signal there’s a problem.
“Something has clearly risen above partisanship, where you have people on either side of the political spectrum denouncing this,” he said.
While there are some merits to elements of the state standards, they also attempt, in some parts, to find a silver lining to slavery that needs to be corrected, Gallon said.
“We’re talking about education,” he said. “There’s no margin of error to plant seeds of disinformation and misinformation. There’s no margin of error to plant seeds of believing that in some shape, form or fashion, that one of the most horrific crimes known to mankind that was levied against people based on the color of their skin, brought some silver lining.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/college-board-pushes-back-florida-work-group-member-likened-new-black-rcna97525
She’s black, and she’s stupid.
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