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They are now banning dozens of MATH textbooks in Florida (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2022 OP
Good grief. nt Ilsa Apr 2022 #1
I just wish they had banned Physics textbooks when I was in high school. barbaraann Apr 2022 #2
What do they mean by BLACK HOLES anyway? Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2022 #3
Ha! Good one! :) barbaraann Apr 2022 #5
My husband taught math in public schools for 31 years Diamond_Dog Apr 2022 #4
Arggh LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2022 #6
What the #GQP thinks CRT is LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2022 #7
Does this mean that the pictures in the book showed black children Lucky Luciano Apr 2022 #8
Florida rejects math books with 'references' to critical race theory mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 #9
All the banned math books had equals signs in them. Nothing scares a fascist like equality. LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2022 #10
Aw, it'll be OK. Never could figure out those number thingys, no how. n/t allegorical oracle Apr 2022 #11
UF dropout who has NO education experience -- rejects 41% of math textbooks LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2022 #12
This is absurd and offensive on its face. The Trumpification of America continues LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2022 #13
imagine onethatcares Apr 2022 #14

Diamond_Dog

(34,826 posts)
4. My husband taught math in public schools for 31 years
Fri Apr 15, 2022, 08:46 PM
Apr 2022

He said this is the most ridiculous thing he has ever heard of.

mahatmakanejeeves

(61,045 posts)
9. Florida rejects math books with 'references' to critical race theory
Sun Apr 17, 2022, 11:12 AM
Apr 2022

Hat tip, Joe.My.God., who had the story the other day


ANSWER SHEET • Analysis

Florida rejects math books with ‘references’ to critical race theory

By Valerie Strauss and Lindsey Bever
Yesterday at 1:05 p.m. EDT | Updated yesterday at 6:56 p.m. EDT

In its latest attempt to be the nation’s leader in restricting what happens in public school classrooms, Florida said it has rejected a pile of math textbooks submitted by publishers in part because they “contained prohibited subjects,” including critical race theory.

The Florida Department of Education announced on Friday that Richard Corcoran, the outgoing commissioner of education, approved an initial adoption list of instructional materials for math, but 41 percent of the submitted textbooks were rejected — most of them in elementary school.

Some were said not to be aligned with Florida’s content standards, called the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking, or BEST. But others, the department said, were rejected for the subject matter. “Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics,” it said in an announcement on the department’s website.

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By Valerie Strauss
Valerie Strauss is an education writer who authors The Answer Sheet blog. She came to The Washington Post as an assistant foreign editor for Asia in 1987 and weekend foreign desk editor after working for Reuters as national security editor and a military/foreign affairs reporter on Capitol Hill. She also previously worked at UPI and the LA Times. Twitter https://twitter.com/valeriestrauss

By Lindsey Bever
Lindsey Bever is a general assignment reporter for The Washington Post, covering national news with an emphasis on health. She was previously a reporter at the Dallas Morning News. Twitter https://twitter.com/lindseybever
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