Florida rejects math books with 'references' to critical race theory
Source: Washington Post
In its latest attempt to be the nations 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 Floridas 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 departments website.
Although the department described the textbook review process as transparent, it did not mention which textbooks had been rejected or cite examples from the offending passages.
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LetMyPeopleVote
(145,501 posts)Lunabell
(6,105 posts)Good one.
Kid Berwyn
(14,953 posts)A whole lot, actually.
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,598 posts)They burnin math books as a last ditch effort to make folks think 74,216,154 > 81,268,924.
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msongs
(67,438 posts)TomWilm
(1,832 posts)... since God ordered Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply.
JohnSJ
(92,375 posts)Math books dont have any offending passage, and they are lying their worthless asses off for propaganda purposes, with the hope it will help them in the midterms
Are people that stupid that they really believe this crap about the Math books
This is where the news media needs to do their f**king job, and take it a step further and call it a lie
No math book talks about CRT
Sick of the media spreading their propaganda without any investigation of facts.
Ray Bruns
(4,110 posts)YES.
GB_RN
(2,373 posts)Ill refer you to H.L. Mencken on that:
No one in this world, so far as I know and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
Emile
(22,892 posts)TomWilm
(1,832 posts)https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/1_STRIDE1.pdf
happy feet
(871 posts)This is a book for educators, not students?
Happy Hoosier
(7,378 posts)I read though bits of it.
Many good ideas there, though I would not characterize many of teh practices criticized as racist, much less "white supremacist."
For example, the text criticizes valuing "procedural fluency" over "conceptual knowledge."
That's a good criticism. But the text declares that that this reflects white supremacy? Why!? It's just shitty pedagogy. There is nothing inherently "white supremacist" about it. East Asian approaches to math are even more procedurally rigid than is typical in the U.S.
OTOH, the book also criticizes equating language proficiency with Mathematical ability. That DOES have some racist roots.
I think the book's emphasis on racism here is a little misguided in parts.
TomWilm
(1,832 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,264 posts)I just don't know by what theory or law one can use the government to make topics verboten. That is censorship, pure and simple. The stuff of history's darkest dictators.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)Dick and Jane as animal rights activists because Spot seems so happy. And isn't Spot black and white? That's got to be a problem.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
What the right is doing is fascism and it is past time to call it that.
Hotler
(11,444 posts)then anger because someone other than them got something for free.
moose65
(3,168 posts)I am a math teacher at a community college. Let me tell you one true thing - there is NO math textbook that contains anything related to Critical Race Theory.
However, as in all disciplines, we are trying to make our courses and materials inclusive of all cultures by not just having pictures of white people in the books. Maybe this is what has their knickers in a bind. Doing that, and having the occasional "Juan" and "Maria" in the word problems instead of it always being "John" and "Mary."
The right-wingers are doing what they always do - they latch onto some phrase or idea, like "Defund the Police" or whatever, and they redefine it to fit whatever they want. They are labelling anything they don't agree with as "Critical Race Theory."
Fla Dem
(23,739 posts)You know for example, "If you have 5 apostles, and Jesus added 9 apostles, but 2 apostles weren't pure enough so Jesus cast them out, how many apostles did Jesus end up with?" The answer is 12.
I'm sure a math book with problems like this would be very acceptable.
Fla Dem
(23,739 posts)You know for example, "If you have 5 apostles, and Jesus added 9 apostles, but 2 apostles weren't pure enough so Jesus cast them out, how many apostles did Jesus end up with?" The answer is 12.
I'm sure a math book with problems like this would be very acceptable.
Marthe48
(17,015 posts)and take any reference to their failed war of succession with them. I think they'd all fit on Kiribati, and if they didn't, who cares? Give the citizens of Kiribati high land.
CrispyQ
(36,509 posts)WTF?
Are we going to let the nutjobs destroy the entire country?
toesonthenose
(136 posts)More than likely there are probably some problems in there that don't use the standard Jane/Dick/William/Karen names. Using Deontay, Miguel, or Imani in a problem is troubling and incendiary.
melm00se
(4,994 posts)specific examples rather than vague/nebulous reasons.
Put up or shut up time.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,501 posts)pfitz59
(10,389 posts)He and his wife are RW fundie fruitcakes. DeathSantis signed the 'don't say gay' bill in front of students from the fundie school his wife founded. Truly evil dude.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,501 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,501 posts)This lady was rated as "not qualified" by the ABA and was confirmed after the election. The Federalist Society had ran out of qualified candidates and so TFG and MoscowMitch confirmed this idiot before Joe was sworn in
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Yesterday, a 33-year-old woman who has never tried a case was given a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. She has only been out of law school for eight years.
Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, wife of Trump stooge Chad Mizelle, graduated college in 2009 and law school in 2012. She has practiced law for a total of four (4) years.
Now, she is a United States District Court judge for the Middle District of Florida.
The lame duck Senate confirmed Mizelle on Wednesday, by a party-line vote of 49 - 41.
With this confirmation, Mitch McConnell upended a 123-year-old Senate tradition of declining to confirm appointments by a president who lost reelection.
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