The left-wing academic establishment is having a full-blown meltdown at the news that the College Board, which runs both the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the Advanced Placement (AP) high-school curricula, is pulling its AP Psychology program out of Florida due to the state’s restrictions on the teaching of sexuality and gender ideology in classrooms.
Contrary to the way the mainstream media is reporting the news, Florida did not ban the College Board from letting students take the AP Psych course, which, as with all Advanced Placement courses, is accepted for college credit at many universities.
Rather, the state asked the College Board to review its courses and update any that contain material that is in conflict with new state legislation prohibiting sexual grooming in classrooms. This applied to the AP Psychology course, which asks students to “describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development.”
But the organization refused to make any changes, preferring to nix AP Psych altogether.
In an example of how the media is spinning the news versus what the facts actually are, The Hill published a piece titled “Florida bans AP psych, pointing to lessons on gender, sexuality.”
Given what really happened, the title is flat-out false. In fact, the article’s own content contradicts the sensationalist headline, as the text clearly states:
The College Board said Florida school districts were told they could teach AP Psychology if it excluded the lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, but the company says it would no longer give credit for the course.
“As we shared in June, we cannot modify AP Psychology in response to regulations that would censor college-level standards for credit, placement, and career readiness. Our policy remains unchanged. Any course that censors required course content cannot be labeled ‘AP’ or ‘Advanced Placement,’ and the ‘AP Psychology’ designation cannot be utilized on student transcripts,” the College Board said.
This is the latest escalation in the fight between College Board and Florida, which began back in January when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) attacked the AP African American Studies course, which has since been rejected by the state.
In short, it was the College Board that killed its own AP Psych program by deciding not to recognize or give credit for courses that drop the sections on gender and sexuality. They preferred not to have the course taught at all than to allow schools to teach it without the sections on gender and sexuality.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, previously took aim at the College Board for introducing “Neo-Marxism” into its courses aimed at teenagers.
“The College Board was the one that in a Black studies course, put queer theory in. Not us,” he said. “They were the ones that put in intersectionality, other types of neo-Marxism into the proposed syllabus, and this was the proposed course. So our Department of Education looked at that and said, ‘In Florida, we do education, not indoctrination,’ and so that runs afoul of our standards.”
At the end of the day, it’s just as well that Florida students are not being exposed to what passes as Marxist pseudoscience and degeneracy under the guise of “psychology.” Psychology courses, like modern revisionist history courses and English courses focusing on deconstructive, leftist literature, are among the settings which educators most use to inculcate impressionable young people with ideas such as atheism, sexual promiscuity, gender-bending ideology, and collectivist politics.
It is not insignificant that one of the biggest names in the development of psychology, Sigmund Freud, was a pervert who used his credentials to project his sexual fantasies (such as the belief that men inwardly want to have sex with their mothers — the “Oedipus Complex,” as he named it) onto the public at large.
And pervert sexologist Alfred Kinsey, the father of the “Sexual Revolution,” whose ideas are taught in many psychology courses, aided and abetted the sexual abuse of children.
As The New American wrote:
In his Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, the 1948 book that changed the world, Kinsey inadvertently indicts himself with evidence that he had knowingly aided and abetted the most horrific child sex abuse imaginable. Consider, for instance, the notorious Table 34, entitled, “Examples of multiple orgasms in pre-adolescent males,” which appeared in his celebrated book. A child molester with a stopwatch abused baby boys, some less than a year old. The “experiment” supposedly demonstrated that babies in the crib could achieve sexual climax many times in an hour. An 11-month-old baby purportedly had ten orgasms in an hour. Another infant had 14 climaxes in 38 minutes. One baby boy was only two months old. Two months!
Furthermore, psychology is notably going through a reproducibility crisis, meaning it is not even reliable.
As Ed Yong of The Atlantic writes:
Over the past few years, an international team of almost 200 psychologists has been trying to repeat a set of previously published experiments from its field, to see if it can get the same results. Despite its best efforts, the project, called Many Labs 2, has only succeeded in 14 out of 28 cases. Six years ago, that might have been shocking. Now it comes as expected (if still somewhat disturbing) news.
The media may treat this as a loss for Florida, but it’s a win. The “loss” of AP Psychology is not a loss at all, because it means fewer students will be groomed and brainwashed by the Left.
