How Florida’s School Censorship Spreads

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Governor Ron DeSantis canceling the rollout of AP African-American Studies course in Florida is more than just another salvo in the culture war. It has implications across public education, across the country—and its chilling effect is already evident. Guests: Jeremy Young, historian and Senior Manager of Free Expression and Education at PEN America. Chyna-Lee Hunter, a 12th grade student at Robert Morgan Educational Center in Miami, Fla. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Make an impact this Black History Month by helping Macy’s on their mission to fund UNCF scholarships for HBCU students. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.5	Finally Hunter is not used to thinking a lot about school work when she's doing her retail job
0:40.5	at the Adidas store. But last month, she couldn't help it.
0:44.8	It's where she found out her AP African American Studies course was being banned.
0:50.8	I was at work, long story short. And I was on break and I was scrolling through Instagram.
0:56.8	And I saw it on someone's story.
1:02.3	And I kind of just tapped through stories. But when I saw bands, I was like, well, let me go back.
1:09.4	Finally is 17. She lives in Miami, Florida.
1:13.2	She was Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, who had decided to tinker with her course load.
1:18.1	His administration said the pilot class she and a few other kids were taking, lacked educational value.
1:24.0	I was admittedly like, there's no way that I'm literally taking that class.
1:29.0	Like there were so many thoughts I was going through my head like, I'm taking this class.
1:31.9	What does this mean? Why are we going back in history?
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