School pulls 実験（する） question equating politics to race, gender
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - Virginia's largest school system is 除去するing a 実験（する） question given to a college-level social 熟考する／考慮するs class that equated 自由主義のs and 保守的なs with 明確な／細部 racial and gender demographics.
The question appeared on a 実験（する） given to students of an AP 政府 class at Fairfax 郡 Public Schools' Online Campus.
The 多重の-choice question asked students, "Which of the に引き続いて is an 正確な comparison of 自由主義のs versus 保守的なs?"
The 可能性のある answers for "自由主義のs" 含むd "Young, white males;" "Middle 老年の, 都市の lesbian;" "College-educated 黒人／ボイコット male professional" and "White, upper-middle class 郊外の male."
The 可能性のある answers for "保守的なs" 含むd "East Coast, Ivy League educated scientists;" "Southern male migrant 労働者;" "カトリック教徒, midwestern middle-老年の male" and "West coast, Hispanic teacher. "
Rory Cooper, a Fairfax 郡 parent and school system critic who 地位，任命するd the question on Twitter, said it is 不快な／攻撃.
"It's one thing for adults to 分析する demographic 傾向s," he said. "It's another to tell students that their 身元 defines their political philosophy."
The school system said in a 声明 that the question will be 除去するd from 未来 実験（する）s because it "did not 会合，会う the 分割's high 期待s." It also said all 実験（する） questions 治めるd to students in the AP 政府 Online Campus class will now be reviewed.
The 声明 said the question was "designed to 査定する／（税金などを）課す 12th graders´ understanding of American political ideology."
The t est is part of an AP, or 前進するd Placement, class that 許すs high-school students to earn college credit if they 得点する／非難する／２０ 井戸／弁護士席 on a final exam.
While the question was part of an AP class, it was not created by the College Board, which 治めるs the AP program 国家的に.
In a tweet, the College Board said the question "is antithetical to the content and 判型 of an AP question."
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears 重さを計るd in 同様に, 非難するing the 仮定／引き受けることs the question makes about who is 自由主義の and who is 保守的な. She has frequently bristled at 部外者s' political 仮定／引き受けることs about 黒人／ボイコット women that are at 半端物s with her 姿勢 as a 保守的な 共和国の／共和党の and 軍の 退役軍人.
"実験（する）s like these create 分割, low 意気込み／士気, fights in our schools," she wrote in one tweet.
The question is just the 最新の in a 一連の critiques that have been 徴収するd against public educators. 保守的な 行動主義者s have questioned curricula that they say 促進する 進歩／革新的な ideology over education 根底となるs.
The 審議 has been 特に 激しい in Virginia, where 共和国の／共和党の Gov. Glenn Youngkin has made education 改革（する） a 優先 and has sought to change how schools を取り引きする transgender students.
Earlier this year, 共和国の／共和党の 司法長官 Jason Miyares 発表するd an 調査 of the school system after 報告（する）／憶測s that high schools withheld letters of commendation on 標準化するd 実験（する）s from some students on the theory that it would 傷つける the feelings of students who didn't receive them.
