The principal or counselor proudly walks you around, talking about their recent test score history, extracurriculars, or rising graduation rate. You round a corner and all of the sudden things shift. These visits are almost always rewarding, but there’s a repeated sin: You enter the school and are greeted by hallways full of diverse, energetic, chatty students. In my role as 2016 State Teacher of the Year and in my advocacy since, I’ve had the pleasure of visiting many schools. Since then, he has walked his stance back somewhat. “How dare you claim that I do not care about them,” he quipped. Let’s just say that AP Trevor took DoAmaral’s accusation a little personally. But if it’s not on the test, people are going to stop teaching it. You can tell me all day that Period 3 matters, and you can tell me all day that we should teach those things. And you need to take responsibility for that. And you’re just another person of authority telling my students that their histories don’t matter. Our black and brown and our native students that their histories matter, their histories don’t start at slavery, their histories don’t start at colonization. Amanda DoAmaral articulated these concerns during a shocking exchange with the College Board’s Trevor Packer at the AP Reading Open Forum in Salt Lake City.Īmanda explains to AP Trevor why it is so important to show Critics of the move point out that removing the 8,000 years before that date threatens to further enshrine a Eurocentric view of history, marginalizing the history and accomplishments of African, American, and Asian cultures before colonialism. Recently, the College Board has come under fire for its changes to AP World History, announcing that the course would now limit itself to covering only history after 1450 CE. It is essentially misleading, suggesting that the underlying affective system operates only to the extent that it does not appear as such. ![]() ![]() Racism only ever appears…as what it is not, as something other than it is.
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