Just recently, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis claimed a victory regarding the new black American AP history courses.

College Board agreed to revise them to reflect Florida law, which does not allow things like critical race theory and queer theory and must be historically accurate.

But that victory seems short lived as Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has just sent a letter to College Board demanding that they keep the AP classes as is and resist the Republican governor's "political grandstanding."

Let's take a closer look at some of the letter shall we?

"I am writing to you today to urge the College Board to preserve the fundamental right to an education that does not follow the political grandstanding of Governor DeSantis and the whims of Republicans in Florida. I am extremely troubled by recent news reports that claim Governor DeSantis is pressuring the College Board to change the AP African American Studies course in order to fit Florida's racist and homophobic laws.

"Illinois expects any AP course offered on African American Studies to include a factual accounting of history, including the role played by black queer Americans."

Does Pritzker really want a "factual history"? His later words suggest not.

"It's often said that we study history so that we do not repeat the mistakes of the past. This cannot be achieved when a misleading version of history is taught."

He's asking for is a revolutionary version of history that isn't full of "misinformation". It doesn't matter if it's true, just that it teaches the right way of thinking.

So, what exactly is Pritzker envisioning?

"Illinois will closely examine the official coursework to ensure it includes all necessary history, starting with this nation's foundation built on slavery, the Civil War where this nation reckoned with that history and the decades of rebuilding and efforts of black Americans to continue their fight for equality and equity to this day. "

Ah, the 1619 project and Marxist equity.

I feel like this is a good time to remember that this has been the plan since the 1960s.

I'll be curious to see where College Board goes from here.

Some reactions:

From Rich Lowry's article:

Pritzker's tyrannical, ultra-woke state teaching standards helped get us into this mess. I'm sure his letter to the College Board will help him launch a presidential bid if Biden doesn't run. But when you look into the Illinois teaching-standards fiasco, what you see is chilling. Faced with the choice between the Illinois and Florida ways, the country will go with Florida. We're already voting that way with our feet, after all, as states like Illinois lose population to states like Florida. Meanwhile, the College Board's in a mess of its own making. With a revised APAAS curriculum due on February 1, we'll know soon enough how they try to get out of it.

As a company, they make their income selling these tests to states, but there's a lot more profit to be made from a developing one standardized test that can fit all the classrooms of our nation, than having to spend a bunch of money developing multiple a la carte state tests based on their various ideological laws.

On the other hand, losing either Illinois or Florida would mean millions in lost revenue.

And in a nation with a falling number birthrate, these educational programs are clawing at every dollar they can get.

This is quite the pickle College Board has got themselves into just to appease a few anti-American voices.