Florida Continues Attack On Education After Rejecting 54 Math Textbooks Due To 'CRT'

[UCmeNdc]

The Florida Department of Education rejected 41% of submitted textbooks over "attempts to indoctrinate children." The textbooks taught math.

Get these crazy Republicans out of office!

What is going on with these idiots?




https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-ban-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory_n_625b103de4b0be72bff6d118

[ck4829]

1. Probably because they featured inequalities

"x > 0" is CRT now.

[edhopper]

2. This is what the voters of Florida want

He still has over 50% approval.
Until they wake up, this is the State they deserve.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. No. It's not what we want.

What we want is Democratic leaders who can stand up to this sort of thing, instead of working real hard at getting along with them, because they're afraid of what they'll do to their family and welfare. And Democratic leaders that won't fall for the Seduction of Joe Tynan tactics, because money drives everything in this State.

There. I said the quiet part out loud.

[mainer]

3. Which textbook publishers paid off the GOP?

With Republicans, I always look to the grift. Maybe this is the reward for the payoff. The state of Florida gives you a fat contract for the books only you publish.

[Walleye]

4. Sounds about white to me.

[yardwork]

6. That's it, I'm sure.

I read that only one textbook company will have the Florida contract now. Nobody in Florida has shown anybody an example of "CRT" in any of the banned books.

It's an excuse to give the contract to a vendor who contributed to DeSantis's campaign.

[Dial H For Hero]

5. Meanwhile...

[doc03]

7. I am trying to imagine what there could be in a math textbook that teaches CRT. They are printed

with black ink? There are pictures of POC in them?

[maxrandb]

8. Obviously it's the equal sign

We can't have that in Math textbooks

[Takket]

9. probably a story problem

Billy the sweet white boy has four apples, and Trayvon the equally sweet black boy has 6 apples. How many apples do they have all together?

BOOM! CRT! we all know Trayvon is a thug. Stop grooming our kids.

[doc03]

22. Isn't it obvious Trayvon took two apples from

Billy

[Takket]

23. or...........

Biden TOOK two apples from Billy and gave them to Trayvon, even though Trayvon's mom drives a Cadillac!!! Welfare!!!!!!!

[DBoon]

10. also because they included Common Core materials

The Common Core State Standards Initiative, also known as simply Common Core, is an educational initiative from 2010 that details what K–12 students throughout the United States should know in English language arts and mathematics at the conclusion of each school grade. The initiative is sponsored by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers.

- Wikipedia

Because using national standards is un-American? Because ity was established by the Obama administration, and everything Obama did must be torn down?

[melm00se]

13. more that common core

is a completely different, at least when it comes to math, teaching methodology.

The way that math problems are approached is completely alien to parents which makes helping them with their homework virtually impossible as most parents have never been taught the methodology like this:

[DBoon]

15. Parents can't understand this?

And that lack of understanding governs state textbook selection?

Here are the states that repealed the Common Core:
Alabama
Arizona
Florida
Indiana
New Jersey
Oklahoma
South Carolina

Here are the ones that were never a member:
Alaska
Nebraska
Texas
Virginia

I see a pattern here.

[Hugin]

17. I'm going to stay out of this except to say...

It took me all of ten seconds to figure out the counting-up-method of subtraction from the example given.

Although I still prefer the old-timey method, I believe your hypothesis of why common core is controversial to be the real reason why there is an objection.

[melm00se]

18. School boards are elected and

parents are voters.

If the elected school board members do something that the parents don't like, what do you think is going to happen?

As to your list: it could quite easily be turned and said these states have parents who are actively engaged in the election process but the states not listed just take whatever shit the school board shovels their way and is not actively engaged in the political process.

[struggle4progress]

19. Counting up is an old trick for store clerks

"What you bought cost $4.57 and you gave me $10. 3 pennies to 60, a quarter to 85, a dime to 95, and a nickel to $5. Another $5 to $10. Here's your change"

[melm00se]

24. and you think that anyone since the

introduction of the cash register that does the math can do that?

[struggle4progress]

25. yes. i think people still do that: systems go down

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Has anyone asked what they conside CRT looks like in a Math textbook?

Are they trying to remove drawings of black and latino children? Is this coming down to teaching anti-Christian-like values?

[melm00se]

14. Word problems are

more than likely where the issue lies.

This question would make heads explode:

Dad #1 is 20 miles from home and travels at 35mph.
Dad #2 is 40 miles from home and travels at 60 mph.

Which Dad leaves 1st and how much later does the other Dad need to leave so that they both arrive how at the same time?

[keep_left]

21. Yep. They also hate "ethnic" names in the word problems.

You see this kind of thing all the time in the alt-right and alt-light groups on Reddit and 4Chan/8Chan/whatever the hell they call it these days.

[RobinA]

16. Math Sure Has Changed

since I was in school. Back in the day it was boring old numbers and a bunch incomprehensible gibberish like sine and cosine.

[AZProgressive]

26. Math is still the same

Anti-CRT panic is what is new.

[JarOCats]

20. Apparently, it's all because of...

...Maya Angelou:

https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-team-defend-rejecting-crt-math-textbooks-1698494