Posted on 04/16/2022 4:48:37 PM PDT by algore
The Florida Department of Education rejected 54 math textbooks from its curriculum on Friday, saying the books were an attempt to 'indoctrinate' students - with more than half of them banned for referencing Critical Race Theory (CRT).
The agency tossed out 41 percent of the 132 math textbooks submitted for next year's curriculum because they were not 'aligned with Florida standards or included prohibited topics and unsolicited strategies,' the DOE said in a statement on Friday.
'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 added, noting that all three learning practices are banned in the state.
'The highest number of books rejected were for grade levels K-5, where an alarming 71 percent were not appropriately aligned with Florida standards or included prohibited topics and unsolicited strategies.'
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had banned CRT as a component in Florida schools, claiming it promotes hatred among students and makes individuals feel guilty for racism of the past.
'It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students,' he said of the rejected books.
'I'm grateful that Commissioner [of Education Richard] Corcoran and his team at the Department have conducted such a thorough vetting of these textbooks to ensure they comply with the law.' submit the textbooks last year.
The DOE added, 'It is unfortunate that several publishers, especially at the elementary school grade levels, have ignored this clear communication and have attempted to slip rebranded instructional materials based on Common Core Standards into Florida's classrooms
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Not so much banned as rejected as defective.
HIP HIP HOORRRAAAYYY FOR FLORIDA!!!!
It’s about time states began rejecting slanted textbooks.
Good, get them hell outa there
That is an irrational argument.....
Does anyone know where there are lists of books like these so that I can compare that to what books my kids get at their schools?
Florida is on the right path.
De Santis is such a warrior - May The Lord Bless & Protect him!
BTTT!
Are these the ones with word problems like, “If Dante and Jamal pool their money and buy an ounce of swag for $60 with Dante paying 2/3 of that how much did Jamal spend?”
Liberals are insidious - preying on children and injecting poison into every possible nook and cranny.
It doesn’t have to make sense… The leftist bastards are insidious and their goal is to take our children away from us and mold them to be good little socialists… Good little Nazi bastards.
God bless Governor DeSantis… Keep up the good work
The idiot ass common core math books forced on my kid I nicknamed “mathbonics”
sounds like it’s getting worse not better
The publishers had a pi in the sky attitude.
What the heck is CRT in math:
If one black guy steals 500 grams of meth from a white guy and is chased by 3 white meth dealers, how far can the black guy run before the white meth dealers just decide to shoot him?
Leftists just seem to control everything, including developing books for schools.
I still would not recommend people sending their kids to public school.
But this is an improvement, and a step in the right direction.
In Florida at least.
There are 28 Republican Governors.
DeSantis seems to be the only one being proactive.
So even math is being politicized at this point.
And the Democrats claim CRT being taught in schools is a "phony" issue - numerous MATH textbooks alone have it.
How much of the problem is due to California?
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