Florida's examples of banned topics in math books derided as 'political theater'

[Coventina]

Education officials in Florida have been criticized for putting “political theater” over teaching after they revealed four examples from among the 54 math textbooks they rejected last week.

The state said it had refused to use the books because of “prohibited topics” including alleged references to critical race theory. On Friday, however, after pressure to explain the decisions, the education department published several images of math problems from the textbook with the offending segments highlighted.

In one example, a colored graph features levels of “racial prejudice” by age. Another example, under the heading “adding and subjecting polynomials”, begins with the words: “What? Me? Racist?” and uses the statistical results of a common survey about unconscious bias as an example for a set of mathematics problems.

The other examples make references to “social and emotional learning” or “social awareness”, concepts that conservative education activists say are a gateway to leftwing ideology.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/22/florida-examples-prohibited-topics-math-textbooks

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"Social Awareness" i.e. EMPATHY, now officially outlawed in Florida.

I have no words for how much I hate these people.

[kimbutgar]

1. There will be a reckoning someday for what Desatan and the repukes are doing to Florida

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Exactly...they have started down a road that they can't come back from.

They will have to march on, keep pushing an agenda that eventually will leave them alone in the darkness with no way back to reality.

[Coventina]

4. It better be soon before a whole generation of kids are warped by miseducation.

[tulipsandroses]

3. Desantis is a D*ck! So are all the people in

in that shithole state who support this wannabe dictator.