"Inside the Dangerous Math Textbooks"

[mainer]

Popular Information, however, has obtained 8 of the 26 math textbooks rejected by Florida for “prohibited topics,” including textbooks for elementary, middle, and high school students. We then scrutinized these textbooks for any mention of race, emotion, or related topics. What we found bears no resemblance to the alarming assertions of Florida officials. ..

There was no discussion of race, racism, or anything that could be construed as related to CRT in any of the textbooks. While the vast majority of the textbooks focused on basic math skills, they also encouraged students to reflect on how they learn and work with their classmates. In general, the textbooks encouraged young students to be nice to each other and themselves.

This could be considered SEL, which focuses on "social and emotional competence" and helping “children develop emotional literacy when it comes to their feelings and other people’s.” But nothing in any of the rejected textbooks could be described in good faith as "dangerous" or "indoctrination."

One rejected textbook, Florida Reveal Math Grade 1, includes a series of questions under the heading “Math is… Mindset.” These questions include: “How can you show that you value the ideas of others?” and “What helps you understand your partner’s ideas?”

https://popular.info/p/inside-the-dangerous-math-textbooks?s=w

[KS Toronado]

1. So when do the book burnings start?

Will MSM even cover it?

[Probatim]

9. They'll be PPV events - $9.95 to watch with an optional $20 fee to have a book tossed in the fire in

your name...

[KS Toronado]

13. Yep, repugs gotta grift.

[Probatim]

14. It's nice to belong to a group that shares my level of disgust with these pricks.

[Chainfire]

2. I get it now..

Being nice to others is against everything the Republican Party stands for.

This is all about DeSantis playing for the far right vote. It doesn't have to make any sense because they will accept the governor's word that the books are subversive without question. It is what they want to believe. Thank Dog DeSantis is there fighting to keep their kids safe from becoming (that banned word.)

The governor has been going full Fascist in his hopes of becoming our next President. He is showing the far right that he knows how to use power, and they love it.

[keithbvadu2]

3. The biggest problem inside those math textbooks is that they are not printed by the favored right wi

The biggest problem inside those math textbooks is that they are not printed by the favored right wing company.

Follow the money.

[hay rick]

4. Maybe being nice is the new woke.

They're on a roll.

[Biophilic]

5. Well, that is some dangerous stuff. No wonder they banned them. So scary. nt

[MiHale]

6. Nurturing independent thought scares the bejebbers out of them...

[Warpy]

7. I would hate to go throght life with the kind of deep terror the right is feeling

It mostly comes from power drunk and twisted preachers and is reinforced by Republican politicians who owe their voting blocs to those preachers. That party looks like a fear based cult because it is a fear based cult.

I'm not sure how we can break through that fear but I suspect it's going to take a real disaster instead of an imaginary one.

Until then, I sincerely hope there are enough people who have not drunk deeply of the Koolaid that we can start to get rid of men like De Satan, Abbott, Stitt, and a few others who pander to the worst impulses of the crookedest preachers.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. These claims about CRT are pure BS

Link to tweet

[IronLionZion]

10. Math is dangerous if people start calculating if GOP or Dem policies are helping them financially

Most of the world prioritizes math and science education. It's shameful that our red states are being so stupid about this in public schools. Most of the politicians' kids go to private schools anyway.

[lees1975]

11. It's political.

It's fear mongering, plain and simple. He knows those who side with him politically won't bother to check. He saw Youngker get elected in Virginia by the slimmest of margins because of the turnout over claiming that crt was being taught in the schools, even though its not in a single curriculum guide anywhere in the state. I have a good friend who teaches in Alexandria who said that abiding by the rules not to teach CRT wouldn't be hard, since they weren't doing it anyway.

[maxsolomon]

12. Once you start caring about other people

It's a slippery slope right into the Woke Lyfe.

Don't they know that Jesus said that Agape only extends to other Christians, and only in your denomination?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. It's a scam to shift to buy textbooks from a cons company formerly headed by Gov Youngkin of VA

Reporting from Tallahassee:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216609725

The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm, acquired Accelerate Learning on Dec. 20, 2018, according to the firm's website.

During that time, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was the co-CEO of the firm. After 25 years with the company, Youngkin resigned in 2020 to run for office in Virginia.

The first thing Youngkin did as governor of Virginia was sign an executive order to "end the use of inherently divisive concepts, including critical race theory, and restoring excellence in K-12 public education in the commonwealth," a measure that's comparable to DeSantis' "Stop WOKE Act."

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2022/04/19/desantis-textbooks-florida-woke-one-publisher-allowed-k-5-math-classes/7357965001/

[Mr.Bill]

16. They don't want kids to learn enough math

to figure out that Trump is broke.
Seriously, the publishers of the banned books should sue, and I'm surprised they haven't yet

[lambchopp59]

17. As old prejudices erode, become tired dogma

The last labored gasps of (Carl Tucktooth) desperately clinging to resuscitation of good old 'Murican bigotry...
Become as ridiculous as dangerous: like a rattlesnake backed into an inescapable corner by pursuers.
As "patriotism" gets more perverted into bigotry.
Perhaps some of the more casual homophobia can find better scrutiny.
Well over 30 years ago, someone I had considered as a friend showed their true colors after an ignorant act:
Despite my congratulations to my friend on her upcoming wedding, I discovered, along with others simultaneously, that I was the sole exception to receiving a wedding invitation.
When pressed on the matter by another invitee, discovered there was fear from both bride and groom that my attendance in the company of my male partner apparently was considered "too controversial" an aspect to her older relatives.
I still sent a wedding gift.
All others still attended.
Dehumanizing.
I wasn't a person anymore. Just a curiosity for her freak show.
It bugs me still. I'm considered okay to work with but not good enough to break bread at the hetero's table.
Some years later in the popular television series "Frasier", the lead protagonist jibed how having a homosexual inadvertently in his home "Sorta violated his rules" to a laugh track uproar.
This was entertainment considered relatively "cerebral" that still jibed at homosexuality as an unwanted stepchild. I wonder if David Hyde Pierce objected or just stayed silent butt of a joke. I also realize how some in that cast later on were avid Trump supporters. A moment so fleeting, so almost inperceivably thrown into the banter.
That made me cry.
Yet with each time "that's so gay" gets thrown about as an insult, the stereotypes become more solidified, entire segments get isolated. A gay couple I can name watched a comedy show on a certain Saturday evening that belittlied our existence while I wondered what a beautiful ceremony I'd missed that day some years back, by the same "casual homophobia".
For the fear I might have embarrassed them.
Right here on D U., a post about a teacher disallowed to display a rainbow flag in the classroom brought a harsh reality flooding back: a poster response that the rainbow flag was "too political" to belong in the classroom. That's how it starts.
The road from legitimate concern to rampant paranoia can be a short one, indeed.
They're burning books to prove it.

[cbabe]

19. Rainbows are in the Bible. Or at least taught in Christian classes. Noah and all that.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. Well there you go.

Encourage young students to be nice to each other and themselves? How despicable is that?