Jefferson County, Colo., students held another protest against the school board’s proposal to review the new AP U.S. History curriculum on Saturday, despite the board’s recent decision to include students in the process.
Students and parents rallied in a Littleton, Colo. park to protest the board’s push to make the course more patriotic, CBS Denver reported. They said that the school board’s move to put students and teachers on the review board for the course wasn’t enough.
In September, the Jefferson County school board proposed a committee to review the new AP U.S. curriculum and ensure that course materials “present positive aspects of the United States and its heritage” and do not “encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law.” This prompted major student protests and walk-outs.
The board then nixed the lines about patriotism and civil disorder and voted to include students and parents in the process. But this doesn’t seem to have placated all members of the community.
The College Board’s new framework for the AP U.S. History exam has sparked backlash among conservatives who claim the history presented in the test is “revisionist” and unpatriotic.
I give those kids an A for effort.
You all realize this isn’t a conservative/liberal issue. This issue concerns whether an AP course should be a college level or a high school level course. If you remember the difference between your high school and college history courses you know what I mean.
Since kids are getting college credit, I think it should be a college course, but what do I know.
Good for them, keep it up until there is actual change, not just a change in talking points.
No kidding it hasn’t placated all the members of the community, because they didn’t yet do anything. Until the curriculum is devoid of patriotic propaganda and that tool of a Dentist who sits on the school board is removed, they should not back down.
One wonders at the mentality of the people who want to polish our history, and ignore the unpleasantness. The way we learn almost anything is by making mistakes, so those folks fall into the group that is doomed to repeat history because they didn’t study it.
Kudos to the students.
Have the school board members been to a reservation lately? Not a casino rez, but one set up on land no one else wanted that grew nothing.