Ironically, ETS, which writes and scores the AP exams that College Board designs and supports, does the AP Psych grading in Flordia. Teachers in general and especially psych teachers are not happy about the idea of travelling to Flordia and spending money there. Its honestly sort of a problem because it takes years to move a scoring site: you have to rent a convention center that meets a lot of criteria, and related hotels. The reservation lag time is 2-3 years.
I suspect they will put Psych in another of the scoring sites (there are 4) and move someone else to Tampa. But the problem is that it all jigsawed, so you have to swap a same size group or the whole thing falls apart.
ETS usually releases scoring dates and locations a year in advance, but they haven’t this year.
How much time do they have? A year out you can often adjust the size of your event somewhat substantially. At least, that’s true for square dancing and puzzle events.
It’s usually easier to drop space than add space, though, as hotels fill up.
Not when you are grading AP tests. That group only gets larger as more and more students take the tests. I know the APUSH graders weren’t happy to be in Florida this year. If they move APPsych they’ll move APUSH as well. Might just pull all of them from the state and go someplace less benighted. West Virginia, maybe?
A special program to help groups of people who have suffered disadvantages through no fault of their own catch up and achieve equality with everyone else? That’s outrageous and un-American! Republicans would never stand for it!
What’s that you say? This program benefits white people? In that case, Republicans demand this program so that their constituents will receive the rights they are entitled to!
As conservatives love to keep telling us, LGBTQ is not a protected class. We can likewise point out that being from Florida is not a protected class. Discriminate away.
For now, anyway. We can hope that enough of the citizens come to their senses. The state of their pocketbooks may be of some help. But I wouldn’t count on it.
Unfortunately they’re more likely to double down on their anti-woke crusade out of resentment at those stinkin’ elitist libs looking down on them like that.
I’m speculating that if it gets to the point where other states start refusing to accept Florida high school diplomas as adequate, conservatives will file lawsuits based on the full faith and credit clause and conservative judges will rule that other states have to accept them.
I’m sure you are right, but what if the students are rejected because their school fails to meet some criteria X rather than because they are from Florida? And it just so happens that Criteria X is illegal to fulfill in Florida?
I don’t think “full faith and credit” will apply at all. Unless Florida decides to unilaterally declare all their 18 year olds “high school graduates.” But, as mentioned above, being an idiot from Florida is not a protected class. So fuck 'em.
“I’m a Republican. Other people warned me about the long term negative consequences of my actions but I ignored them. Now those consequences have arrived and are undeniable. So I need to acknowledge that those other people were right and I was wrong and then to follow through by changing my behavior.”
“I’m a Republican. Other people warned me about the long term negative consequences of my actions but I ignored them. Now those consequences have arrived and are undeniable. Because those other people told me about those consequences, they are associated with them in my mind. So I blame those other people for the consequences. I will use my control over the political system to protect me from what I see as an attack against me. I was right before and I am right now and I will always be right in the future.”
