Inside the "dangerous" math textbooks DeSantis claims would "indoctrinate students

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Judd Legum
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1. @GovRonDeSantis claims math textbooks "indoctrinate" students with "dangerous and divisive" ideologies like "Critical Race Theory"

But he REFUSED TO PROVIDE ANY EXAMPLES from the rejected books

So we tracked down 8 of them

Here is what we found

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Inside the "dangerous" math textbooks DeSantis claims would "indoctrinate students"
On April 15, the Florida Department of Education issued a dramatic press release: "Florida Rejects Publishers’ Attempts to Indoctrinate Students." In the release, Florida Commissioner of Education...
5:30 AM · Apr 21, 2022

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On April 15, the Florida Department of Education issued a dramatic press release: "Florida Rejects Publishers’ Attempts to Indoctrinate Students." In the release, Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran announced that he had rejected 54 math textbooks submitted by publishers for the next school year. According to the Florida Department of Education, 26 of those math textbooks were rejected because they contained "prohibited topics," including Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL).

To underscore the importance of this decision, the release contained a quote from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R). “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,” DeSantis said. Corcoran said the math textbooks were rejected because children deserve "a world-class education without the fear of indoctrination or exposure to dangerous and divisive concepts in our classrooms."

In a press conference on Monday, DeSantis defended the decision, focusing on SEL. Right-wing activists claim that SEL is CRT by another name but that is inaccurate. SEL focuses on the development of "critical thinking, emotion management, conflict resolution, decision making, [and] teamwork" — skills that are necessary for students to excel in school and in life. The term dates back to a 1997 book but the concept of character development dates back at least to Benjamin Franklin in the mid-1700s.

"You know, math is about getting the right answer and we want kids to learn to think so they get the right answer. It’s not about how you feel about the problem or to introduce some of these other things," DeSantis said. DeSantis noted that "most of the books that did not meet Florida standards… happened to be in the early grades."

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[Walleye]

1. I'm starting to think that DeSantis is just a garden-variety racist

[RKP5637]

2. Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[raging moderate]

3. Thsi is how Hitler unknowingly prevented his Nazis from getting atomic power.

This story about DeSantis and Florida reminds me of what I read about Adolph Hitler's tantrums when he couldn't understand something he was being told. He would blow up and scream that it was nothing but "Jewish thinking" and rip up the permission papers that would have enabled further work in that area. Evidently he kept refusing to give permission to procedures that would have led to Nazi Germany producing the first atomic bomb, thus saving the world from terrible mass atomic destruction. Maybe DeSantis and his cronies will have their insane delusions backfire on them as well.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. All the banned math books had equals signs in them. Nothing scares a fascist like equality.

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