On 4/17/2022 8:00 AM, Ralph E Lindberg wrote:
On 2022-04-16 20:59:57 +0000, Technobarbarian said:
"Florida bans 28 math textbooks in panic over Critical Race Theory"
"The state of Florida is rejecting 28 mathematics textbooks as a
result of Republicans' purported outrage over Critical Race Theory.
On Friday, Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran
announced that the state had rejected the math textbooks under the
state's Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) standards.
"The approved list followed a thorough review of submissions at the
Department, which found 41 percent of the submitted textbooks were
impermissible with either Florida’s new standards or contained
prohibited topics – the most in Florida’s history. 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," the department announced."
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https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-critical-race-theory/
TB
I'm guessing it's the wording for some "word problems"
But it's mostly political posturing by the GOP
I think that much of our education and our textbooks were far more
boring than they needed to be because everyone was carefully avoiding
anything even faintly controversial. We didn't need a "don't say gay"
bill because that was the unspoken policy everywhere. I had a math
teacher in high school who was stereptypically Truman Capote style gay.
No one ever said anything about it. Least of all him. Officially he was
just a bachelor.
By the time they're done sanitizing them I'll bet FL has some
deadly boring text books,
TB
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