Math books banned for Critical Race Theory

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/edu ... 354137001/

If you want a more naked, brazen example that "critical race theory" just means "anything the republicans don't like", well, there you have it.

[Nealithi]

Or the Common Core part. The Common Core math was rejected by Florida and by itself is not Critical Race Theory. I would like a list of the books to see if they did have a single thing to do with CRT. But I think from what is in the article. The Florida Board rejected the books for the Common Core issues and an Editor lumped the title under Critical Race.

[TGLS]

Or the Common Core part. The Common Core math was rejected by Florida and by itself is not Critical Race Theory. I would like a list of the books to see if they did have a single thing to do with CRT. But I think from what is in the article. The Florida Board rejected the books for the Common Core issues and an Editor lumped the title under Critical Race.

They specifically called out CRT in their press release. Given that Florida hasn't published examples of what the objectionable content looks like, all that can be done is speculate.

[Nealithi]

Or the Common Core part. The Common Core math was rejected by Florida and by itself is not Critical Race Theory. I would like a list of the books to see if they did have a single thing to do with CRT. But I think from what is in the article. The Florida Board rejected the books for the Common Core issues and an Editor lumped the title under Critical Race.

They specifically called out CRT in their press release. Given that Florida hasn't published examples of what the objectionable content looks like, all that can be done is speculate.

For the love of. How do these people make the statements of their opponents seem tame?
Thank you. I stand corrected.

[hammerofglass]

They probably had example problems where someone had a non anglo name or something like that.

[Thebestoftherest]

MAybe it just those books were too smart for Florida.

[CmdrKing]

My best guess is that their anti-‘woke’ laws are so loosely written that textbook manufacturers sent them a note saying “yeah you’re on your own” and Florida hasn’t been able to screen what they had for compliance. So they just put out a temporary ban on everything to be lifted as they approve books.

[hammerofglass]

They have to be loosely written because if they just said outright what they were trying to do they would be thrown out the first time a judge looked at them. Even all those Federalist Society theocratic lunatics that got pushed through in the Trump years have to at least pretend to care about blatantly unconstitutional nonsense like this.

That was the mistake they made when they tried to force through creationism a few decades ago when that was their chosen wedge issue; they assumed the Bush-appointed Christian judge on the case would be a partisan hack on their side but instead he did his damn job and they were humiliated in court.

[CmdrKing]

The precedent here is the Texas board of education, which has been dictating most of the textbook industry for years to slowly weed out any real history or other education and put in pro-Christian, pro-conservative dogma. Hey have sufficiently specific requests for both inclusions and omissions, and such a large proportion of textbook sales, that the publishers just catered to them and sold their approved books nationwide.

Florida seems to have simply tried to do everything at once at not set out specific enough guidelines to cater to. But you’re probably right that by making this law, rather than regulation, they would open themselves to much more judicial scrutiny by being sufficiently specific to have the work done for them.

[phantom000]

To me this is a sign that things are getting out of hand. I mean what does Critical Race Theory have to do with math? Or has 2+2=4 become political now?