Days after pulling the Advanced Placement Psychology course from Palm Beach County schools, Superintendent Mike Burke apologized to parents whose kids won’t be able to take the class after a flurry of conflicting information from state education officials.
“If there was a way we could teach this course and not have our teachers get arrested, we would do it in a second,” he said at a Tuesday morning “Back to School breakfast” presented by the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches.
Burke was referring to the possibility that the district and its teachers could be accused of breaking the Parental Rights in Education law, which prohibits discussions of sexuality and gender identity in Florida classrooms.
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