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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023

Florida education officials discuss SAT alternative focused on ‘Western tradition’

Author:     ANA CEBALLOS and SOMMER BRUGAL
Source:     Miami Herald
Publication Date:     February 17, 2023
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Stephan:  

The voters of Florida have voted Ron DeSantis into office twice, and I read that as saying the majority cohort of Florida is defined by its racism, its resentments, and its fears. The problem with America is Americans. What I see as particularly dangerous about this is that Florida, as well as other Red states, are literally trying to create a false history of America with which to indoctrinate not educate the young, thus assuring continued White supremacy and a false account of what the Civil War was about. The result will be that these false narratives will continue to haunt Florida for at least another generation. What DeSantis and his minions may also be doing by replacing the nationally used SAT exams with a biased bogus version is blocking Florida high school students from qualifying for colleges and universities outside of Florida.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, an open White supremacist and fascist Credit: Screen capture

As Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republican leaders explore alternatives to the College Board’s AP classes and tests, top state officials have been meeting with the founder of an education testing company supporters say is focused on the “great classical and Christian tradition.” The Classic Learning Test, founded in 2015, is used primarily by private schools and home-schooling families and is rooted in the classical education model, which focuses on the “centrality of the Western tradition.” The founder of the company, Jeremy Tate, said the test is meant to be an alternative to the College Board-administered SAT exam, which he says has become “increasingly ideological” in part because it has “censored the entire Christian-Catholic intellectual tradition” and other “thinkers in the history of Western thought.”

As DeSantis’ feud with the College Board intensified this week, Tate had several meetings in Tallahassee with Ray Rodrigues, the state university system’s chancellor, and legislators to see if the state can more broadly offer the Classic Learning Test […]

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