This AP History textbook follows standards and curriculum defined by the College Board which runs AP courses, exams and SAT exams. It contains many Islam biased statements.
Below are two links. One is the meeting details, the other is info and links to the social studies books being reviewed. Look for political bias, religious bias or leftist anti-family bias (my opinion).
The AP World History book shown contains excessive, unjustified sections on Islam, in my opinion.
Note: The meeting is to take input on whether the books meet Florida Education Standards. They probably do, but are they unbiased? Do they contain leftist propaganda, religious bias and whitewashing? If you don't write or speak to the Board, they will approve these textbooks without parental input.
The Florida Sunshine State Standards are still 95% Common Core, which reflects anti-family, anti-conservative, pro-Islam, pro-leftist contents.
The Florida Citizens Alliance reviewed Florida textbooks and this linked Dec., 2018 report shows examples of what they found, including 2-3 of the books being considered on Monday by the Lake County, FL School District.
Some of the tricks used by the Common Core crowd to embed political and Islamic bias in textbooks include:
- Using a generic standard such as "learn how cultures work" to focus mostly on Islam, so the Standard doesn't actually specify that Islam be covered, but they embed it within generic standards.
- The standards may be generic, such as learn good communications, but then the sample TESTS (aka Assessments), recommended homework, and example quizzes with biased topics (i.e. anti-Reagan statements, anti-Trump, etc) are provided only in the teacher's version of the textbook, or in third party online only websites not accessible to the public or parents. I have seen where quizzes had students write down the five key pillars of Islam, or recite the Shahada, which is actually teaching kids what is said daily by Muslims (a prayer). We asked to see the teacher versions of the textbooks, but the staff said we were prohibited from making digital images of pages to illustrate our findings. Staff claimed it was due to copyright issues, thus effectively shutting down transparency over the contents of teacher textbook versions.
- A 6th grade world history book I reviewed earlier (not in this batch of books) had the last chapter dedicated to Islam. However, the time period covered by the book was only through AD500 at the end of the Roman Empire, BEFORE Islam was even started, but yet they included an entire chapter on Islam for the period AD600 on.
Here is the meeting details for Monday at 4:30 pm. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6PBNlsWAAEi_-S.jpg
Here are details of links to the electronic versions of the student textbooks.
Vance Jochim
FiscalRangers.com
Everything in the article is my opinion and commentary - May 10, 2019
Vance Jochim
FiscalRangers@comcast.net
YouTube Channel "FiscalRangersFlorida"
