Florida Gov. DeSantis bans 54 K-12 MATH textbooks due to CRT

[BNIBoiler]

I did not know that the Quadratic formula had anything to do with systemic racism. And y’all want this dude to be president of the US.

Florida rejects dozens of math textbooks over critical race theory, Common Core standards

The Florida Department of Education rejected 41% of math textbook submissions on Friday because of publishers’ attempt to “indoctrinate” students.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Mr_Scott]

Circomfrance
Radius
Tangent

My God man, isn't it obvious ?!

 

[BNIBoiler]

Circomfrance
Radius
Tangent

My God man, isn't it obvious ?!

I guess teaching white kids the area of a circle is that they will now hate themselves.

 

[Crayfish57]

Circomfrance
Radius
Tangent

My God man, isn't it obvious ?!

What is a circomfrance? Sounds like something you need a Moyle for.

 

[tjreese]

I did not know that the Quadratic formula had anything to do with system racism. And y’all want this dude to be president of the US.

Florida rejects dozens of math textbooks over critical race theory, Common Core standards

The Florida Department of Education rejected 41% of math textbook submissions on Friday because of publishers’ attempt to “indoctrinate” students.

www.usatoday.com

This went on for some time. Two years in a row right after 911 I had invites to attend a forum between Mathematically Correct and the NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) held by Lynne Cheney in D.C. through John E Stone East Tennessee State and so we just never got dumb overnight. 😉 I’ve personally written more than needs repeated discussing textbook adoption and multiculturalism approval of texts for consideration for all states. Over twenty years ago Senator Byrd addressed this. The link is part of the congressional record on June 9, 1997.

Snip…snip…

“Recently Marianne Jennings, a professor at Arizona State University, found that her teenage daughter could not solve a mathematical equation. This was all the more puzzling because her daughter was getting an A in algebra. Curious about the disparity, Jennings took a look at her daughter's algebra textbook, euphemistically titled, "Secondary Math: An Integrated Approach: Focus on Algebra." Here it is-quite a handsome cover on the book. After reviewing it, Jennings dubbed it "Rain Forest Algebra." I have recently obtained a copy of the same strange textbook--this is it, as I have already indicated--and I have to go a step further and call it whacko algebra.

This textbook, written by a conglomerate of authors, lists 5 so-called "algebra authors," but it boasts 20 "other series authors" and 4 "multicultural reviewers." We are talking about algebra now. Why we need multicultural review of an algebra textbook is a question which I would like to hear someone answer, and the fact that there are 4 times as many "other series authors" as "algebra authors" in this book made me suspect that this really was not an algebra textbook at all.”

Farther down- snip…snip

Jennings points out that Focus on Algebra is 812 pages long, compared with 200 for the average math textbook in Japan. "This would explain why the average standardized score is 80 in Japan and 52 here," she says. Marks do seem to head south when New-New Math appears. In well-off Palo Alto, Calif., public-school math students dropped from the 86th percentile nationally to the 58th in the first year of New-New teaching, then went back up the next year to the 77th percentile when the schools moderated their approach.

The New-New Math has become a carrier for the aggressive multiculturalism spreading inexorably through the schools. Literature from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, which is promoting whole math, is filled with suggestions on how to push multiculturalism in arithmetic and math classes.

New-New Math is also vaguely allied with an alleged new field of study called ethnomathematics. Most of us may think that math is an abstract and universal discipline that has little to do with ethnicity. But a lot of ethnomathematicians, who are busy holding conferences and writing books, say that all peoples have a natural culture-bound mathematics. Western math, in this view, isn't universal but an expression of white male culture imposed on nonwhites. Much of this is the usual ranting about "Eurocentrism." Ethnomathematics, a book of collected essays, starts by reminding us that "Geographically, Europe does not exist, since it is only a peninsula on the vast Eurasian continent ..." Before long, there is a reference to "the so-called Pythagorean theorem."

Much of the literature claims that nonliterate peoples indicated their grasp of math in many ways, from quilt patterns to an ancient African bone cut with marks that may have been used for counting. It's all rather stunning nonsense, but this is where multiculturalism is right now. Unless you are headed for an engineering school working with Yoruba calculators, or unless you wish to balance your checkbook the ancient Navajo way, it's probably safe to ignore the whole thing.”

https://www.stolaf.edu/other/extend/Expectations/byrd.html

Later Bill Clinton asked Diane Ravitch who was on the transition team (previous sec of ed and noted guru historian on education) to study biasing in education and this well informed historian was surprised to learn it was much worse than expected leading her to write The Language Police

 

[Nbergbuck]

I did not know that the Quadratic formula had anything to do with systemic racism. And y’all want this dude to be president of the US.

Florida rejects dozens of math textbooks over critical race theory, Common Core standards

The Florida Department of Education rejected 41% of math textbook submissions on Friday because of publishers’ attempt to “indoctrinate” students.

www.usatoday.com

Why would a math textbook contain a reference to CRT? If it does, it should not be there. Math is the purest form of human endeavor. It has nothing to do with race whatsoever. 2 plus 2 is 4 regardless of your views on race.

 

[TheGunner]

It’s amazing what teachers with an agenda can put in textbooks.

of the 54 books eliminated, I’m sure there are still a 1000 to choose from, or at least were until every teacher decided to focus and push the same politics

 

[BuilderBob6]

Why would a math textbook contain a reference to CRT? If it does, it should not be there. Math is the purest form of human endeavor. It has nothing to do with race whatsoever. 2 plus 2 is 4 regardless of your views on race.

It would help if they actually told us what books were banned. Not sure what he problem is.

 

[MilwaukeeBoilerFan]

I did not know that the Quadratic formula had anything to do with systemic racism. And y’all want this dude to be president of the US.

Florida rejects dozens of math textbooks over critical race theory, Common Core standards

The Florida Department of Education rejected 41% of math textbook submissions on Friday because of publishers’ attempt to “indoctrinate” students.

www.usatoday.com

CRT textbooks is the tip of the iceberg.
You and your woke team will be shown the door come November.
Inflation
Border Security
George Soros and loose DA’s = more crime!
War with Russia, no Americans. Reduce Nuclear tension.

All items noted above lie at Joe Biden’s feet. Time to vote he and like minded far left liberals out. In layman’s terms, they were given the keys wrecked the car, stole from the homes, lied about it and blamed it on good American Citizens. Time to give them the boot!
We are are all worse off than we were 1.3 yrs ago when he took office.

 

[Boiler Mike]

Thank God for Desantis

 

[hibbitthouse]

I did not know that the Quadratic formula had anything to do with systemic racism. And y’all want this dude to be president of the US.

Florida rejects dozens of math textbooks over critical race theory, Common Core standards

The Florida Department of Education rejected 41% of math textbook submissions on Friday because of publishers’ attempt to “indoctrinate” students.

www.usatoday.com

Yes, it would be good for America if he became president. It might also extend the efforts to combat the influx of CRT in schools in general. Thanks for bringing it up!

 

[BNIBoiler]

Yes, it would be good for America if he became president. It might also extend the efforts to combat the influx of CRT in schools in general. Thanks for bringing it up!

CRT has never been, never will be and never intended to be indoctrinated in K-12 schools. CRT IS ONLY TAUGHT IN LAW SCHOOLS AND SOME GRADUATED COURSES. Stop watching Faux News.

 

[Bruce1]

It would help if they actually told us what books were banned. Not sure what he problem is.

Exactly, Bob. I agree with you. BNI simply read the media reports and started flaming from his political point of view. Here is part of a quote from DeSantis that still doesn’t answer the question but at least describes some of the concerns:

“I think there was a number of reasons. So we got rid of Common Core, as you know. We have B.E.S.T. standards, which is a better way to do a lot of things but particularly math. I mean, one of the criticisms was the parents couldn’t help their kids with the math homework,” he said at the Monday press conference in Jacksonville.”

As a grandparent I tried many times over the years to help my grandkids with their math and could not follow the teaching method used for simple division problems. For me I will wait for more information.

One thing that is certain is our country has fallen behind the rest of the world in math and science and THAT needs to be addressed.

 

[brettRoeder]

Here are some sample questions from the CRT influenced Algebra quiz in Missouri.

No wonder our kids are falling behind other countries!! Other countries are teach reading, writing and math. Atlanta Public Schools is teaching racism. It has re-segregated classrooms. I think it was NJ schools have segregated playgrounds and after school events. Instead of teaching kids reading, writing and math, our schools are teaching racism.

Check out some of the questions on this link. Why is a teacher talking about pimps, prostitutes, bookies, ... in math class! Would you want your kids being taught this way!? These same examples were cited by DeSantis in his press conference on the bill.

Here are some great examples of how our public school system is failing our children yet liberals, who are against school choice, keep wanting to throw more money at the problem. Problem isn't money, US spends more on money than any other country. Problem is our focus and our acceptance of failure.

77% Of A Baltimore High School’s Students Only Read At An Elementary School Level​

13 Baltimore City High Schools, Zero Students Proficient in Math​

Oregon just completely gave up on public school students. They Dropped Graduation Test Requirements

Finally, if CRT isn't being taught in schools why do libs care about this law.

 

[BuilderBob6]

Exactly, Bob. I agree with you. BNI simply read the media reports and started flaming from his political point of view. Here is part of a quote from DeSantis that still doesn’t answer the question but at least describes some of the concerns:

“I think there was a number of reasons. So we got rid of Common Core, as you know. We have B.E.S.T. standards, which is a better way to do a lot of things but particularly math. I mean, one of the criticisms was the parents couldn’t help their kids with the math homework,” he said at the Monday press conference in Jacksonville.”

As a grandparent I tried many times over the years to help my grandkids with their math and could not follow the teaching method used for simple division problems. For me I will wait for more information.

One thing that is certain is our country has fallen behind the rest of the world in math and science and THAT needs to be addressed.

I had the same problem with my son.

But I think parental issues with how math is taught and CRT in a math book are two very different things. Don't conflate the two. If there's legitimate CRT issues then show us. But it appears that muddying the waters is on purpose. If the state has a problem with how math is taught then deal with that. Don't lump it in with CRT for what appears to be political purposes.

 

[tjreese]

Why would a math textbook contain a reference to CRT? If it does, it should not be there. Math is the purest form of human endeavor. It has nothing to do with race whatsoever. 2 plus 2 is 4 regardless of your views on race.

Remember it was "Rain Forest" a couple of decades ago. As you state, when should any political ideology be submitted in a math text? Now, if in a math text... what text outside of math has political ideology to condition the lab rats? Who or what sets the texts not needing a waiver, and out of that group for selection...who determines the text for the next six years? How many schools use a waiver?

Wayne Bishop was my "go-to" a couple of decades ago on math adoption text reviews

https://steadfastclash.com/the-latest/usa-today-gets-wrecked-after-claiming-math-is-racist/ is listed below

There’s that liberal word again, “inclusive”. Another interesting report resurfaced as a result of this story. The Bill Gates Foundation donated $140 million to some cockamamie new math education guideline.

It funded a program directed at helping math instructors avoid the “white supremacist culture”.

The three ideas of, “more inclusive, Bill Gates, and white supremacy”, all mixed together, represent yet another phony sham by the liberal left to paint America as irredeemably racist.

Now, these fanatical fruitcakes are targeting math. The next thing we know, teachers will not be able to teach long division because it involves a derogatory hut, which may disparage Native Americans.

Certainly, fractions will be an immediate target of these nutcases because one number will be deemed inferior to the other. Instead of the numerator and denominator, math teachers will instruct students to call them “the oppressed and the oppressor”.

As crazy as all of this sounds, it’s becoming all too alarming not to take seriously. If educators and school administrators would focus on priorities, like teaching kids to read, write, and accurately add or subtract numbers, minority student’s performance might magically improve.

It’s not about what’s in the curriculum, it’s about diluting it every chance they get. These overly sensitive minions for the woke culture continue to spew a rhetoric that insists one person is an oppressor, while the rest are oppressed.

The result generated by this crazy new push to make subjects such as math more inclusive will produce bad consequences. Mathematics professors, like California State University’s Wayne Bishop, insist this theory will cultivate dumber students.

Bishop says that while students may feel more included in math class, when they hit the real world, they won’t have any idea how to apply it to real life. A number of educators further debated the idea of dumbing down the math curriculum.

The policy should be to provide extra assistance to students who struggle, not a collective carving away of important math concepts to benefit a few. We’re stuck in a maddening time warp where the radical left blames everything on racial inequities.

This notion simply is untrue. Worst of all, it’s having an eroding effect on society. It does nothing to improve the prospects for the minorities or the underprivileged. The only thing these wacky ideas accomplish, when leeched into our children’s education, is to dilute their ability to learn.

They further aggravate what few racial inequalities America is working to correct. Returning to the core basics, reading, writing, and arithmetic, is the correct solution. In the meantime, be on the lookout for the next liberal attack on reason. What’s truly the most amusing part of all these assaults on our intelligence is that none of them “add up”.

 

[SIBoiler2]

I had the same problem with my son.

But I think parental issues with how math is taught and CRT in a math book are two very different things. Don't conflate the two. If there's legitimate CRT issues then show us. But it appears that muddying the waters is on purpose. If the state has a problem with how math is taught then deal with that. Don't lump it in with CRT for what appears to be political purposes.

It seems to me from my reading re:FL banning of said books is not an either/or situation. Some were rejected because they violated the methodology by using Common Core. Others were rejected because they injected CRT philosophy into math story problems.

 

[tjreese]

It seems to me from my reading re:FL banning of said books is not an either/or situation. Some were rejected because they violated the methodology by using Common Core. Others were rejected because they injected CRT philosophy into math story problems.

There are 150 years of psychological studies on the best way to learn and it is small dosages of new material while repeating the old material. This goes against a lot of math texts. Saxon math which some teachers do not like because it limited their artistic flair used this approach. There are many reasons to not want a text. Many teachers would be lost without a text and so the text dictates the learning…that in many cases tries to adhere to the state standards and so whoever controls the testing controls some of the text, but all the learning. Now, imagine if the feds were more involved instead of the states…

 

[Boiler Buck]

I did not know that the Quadratic formula had anything to do with systemic racism. And y’all want this dude to be president of the US.

Florida rejects dozens of math textbooks over critical race theory, Common Core standards

The Florida Department of Education rejected 41% of math textbook submissions on Friday because of publishers’ attempt to “indoctrinate” students.

www.usatoday.com

We would be fortunate to have Desantis as President.

But how could these books have CRT related materials? Dems like you swore this stuff wasn't taught in public schools. ....LOL

 

[BuilderBob6]

We would be fortunate to have Desantis as President.

But how could these books have CRT related materials? Dems like you swore this stuff wasn't taught in public schools. ....LOL

We don't know they do. All we know is the state of Florida says they do........... which coincidentally fits with DeSantis' new policy.

 

[Boiler Buck]

We don't know they do. All we know is the state of Florida says they do........... which coincidentally fits with DeSantis' new policy.

Thank God for Florida under Desantis leadership.

 

[Paskjox]

I did not know that the Quadratic formula had anything to do with systemic racism. And y’all want this dude to be president of the US.

Florida rejects dozens of math textbooks over critical race theory, Common Core standards

The Florida Department of Education rejected 41% of math textbook submissions on Friday because of publishers’ attempt to “indoctrinate” students.

www.usatoday.com

You are so right……let’s keep the miserable failure we have now!! Smart thinking

 

[BuilderBob6]

So it doesn't matter if it's true.......just important that DeSantis says it is so he can get credit for it

 

[Bruce1]

I had the same problem with my son.

But I think parental issues with how math is taught and CRT in a math book are two very different things. Don't conflate the two. If there's legitimate CRT issues then show us. But it appears that muddying the waters is on purpose. If the state has a problem with how math is taught then deal with that. Don't lump it in with CRT for what appears to be political purposes.

Again, I agree. I'll wait for the info.

 

[COBoiler1]

CRT textbooks is the tip of the iceberg.
You and your woke team will be shown the door come November.
Inflation
Border Security
George Soros and loose DA’s = more crime!
War with Russia, no Americans. Reduce Nuclear tension.

All items noted above lie at Joe Biden’s feet. Time to vote he and like minded far left liberals out. In layman’s terms, they were given the keys wrecked the car, stole from the homes, lied about it and blamed it on good American Citizens. Time to give them the boot!
We are are all worse off than we were 1.3 yrs ago when he took office.

Vomit. You would blame Biden and “the liberals” if you went to McDonalds and got the wrong order. Inflation wasn’t caused by Biden, it was caused by a worldwide pandemic and huge supply and demand issues. Gas prices aren’t high because of Biden, see first statement. In fact, gas prices have NEVER historically correlated with what party sites in the WH. Biden inherited a f’ing worldwide mess. Do you KNOW why people leave their horrible lives and try to come to the US? You think building a wall will stop that? Mind boggling and laughable lack of interest in facts, just emotional drivel. Go move to Belarus or Russia. See how you like it.

 

[Crayfish57]

Vomit. You would blame Biden and “the liberals” if you went to McDonalds and got the wrong order. Inflation wasn’t caused by Biden, it was caused by a worldwide pandemic and huge supply and demand issues. Gas prices aren’t high because of Biden, see first statement. In fact, gas prices have NEVER historically correlated with what party sites in the WH. Biden inherited a f’ing worldwide mess. Do you KNOW why people leave their horrible lives and try to come to the US? You think building a wall will stop that? Mind boggling and laughable lack of interest in facts, just emotional drivel. Go move to Belarus or Russia. See how you like it.

So you start a post with''vomit'' Are like 12 or just stupid? 57 whole posts, You like @BuilderBob6 and voted for Biden.......

 

[COBoiler1]

So you start a post with''vomit'' Are like 12 or just stupid? 57 whole posts, You like @BuilderBob6 and voted for Biden.......

Another person who can only see black and white. Can you please post same gas prices in each other’s countries every 4 years for the last 30 years? Do you think a loaf of bread costs the same in $US dollars in country X vs Y vs Z? Do you think a pair of Nike shoes costs the same in country X vs Y vs Z? Yes people like you DO make me sick to my stomach. You are incapable of not blaming the government for everything, as long as it’s not your party. Did you hate Obama too? Even after the economy and jobs markedly improved after the Bush debacle?

 

[SKYDOG]

Another person who can only see black and white. Can you please post same gas prices in each other’s countries every 4 years for the last 30 years? Do you think a loaf of bread costs the same in $US dollars in country X vs Y vs Z? Do you think a pair of Nike shoes costs the same in country X vs Y vs Z? Yes people like you DO make me sick to my stomach. You are incapable of not blaming the government for everything, as long as it’s not your party. Did you hate Obama too? Even after the economy and jobs markedly improved after the Bush debacle?

And you used to vote Republican per a previous post, but defend the practices and policies of the Democrats. You have exposed yourself for the liberal you are.

 

[TeddyValentineDidNothingWrong]

Jennings points out that Focus on Algebra is 812 pages long, compared with 200 for the average math textbook in Japan. "This would explain why the average standardized score is 80 in Japan and 52 here," she says.

lmao this illustrates such ignorance that it's difficult to take anything else said seriously.

Hmm, could it have anything to do with the nature of the Japanese language being able to fit a lot more information in much fewer characters due to how Kanji compared to our romanized phonetic language? No, it must be the spooky multicultural boogeyman!

Just another footnote in the story of "conservatives" pulling out every bullshit trick to destroy public education.

 

[MilwaukeeBoilerFan]

Vomit. You would blame Biden and “the liberals” if you went to McDonalds and got the wrong order. Inflation wasn’t caused by Biden, it was caused by a worldwide pandemic and huge supply and demand issues. Gas prices aren’t high because of Biden, see first statement. In fact, gas prices have NEVER historically correlated with what party sites in the WH. Biden inherited a f’ing worldwide mess. Do you KNOW why people leave their horrible lives and try to come to the US? You think building a wall will stop that? Mind boggling and laughable lack of interest in facts, just emotional drivel. Go move to Belarus or Russia. See how you like it.

So F’ing laughable the excuses.
Supply chain issues brought on by the Go Green mob that choked the market strategy. The Biden Administration agreed with far leftist pushing that narrative.
Do Americans a favor, vote Republican to see how fast things can improve from the shitty positions you and others have put us in.

 

[Crayfish57]

Another person who can only see black and white. Can you please post same gas prices in each other’s countries every 4 years for the last 30 years? Do you think a loaf of bread costs the same in $US dollars in country X vs Y vs Z? Do you think a pair of Nike shoes costs the same in country X vs Y vs Z? Yes people like you DO make me sick to my stomach. You are incapable of not blaming the government for everything, as long as it’s not your party. Did you hate Obama too? Even after the economy and jobs markedly improved after the Bush debacle?

OMG what stupid bus dropped you off? I am really proud to know I make people like you sick to your stomach. An honor I wear with pride. I can only see black and white? WTF are you going on about! Obama was a worthless POS but a lot better than Biden's total ineptitude. But you hate Trump and if you want to discuss marked improvements in the economy? Markedly tanking under your buddy Joe? GD what rock did you just crawl out from and feel inspired to post your crap ? Go vomit, you will feel better!

 

[tjreese]

lmao this illustrates such ignorance that it's difficult to take anything else said seriously.

Hmm, could it have anything to do with the nature of the Japanese language being able to fit a lot more information in much fewer characters due to how Kanji compared to our romanized phonetic language? No, it must be the spooky multicultural boogeyman!

Just another footnote in the story of "conservatives" pulling out every bullshit trick to destroy public education.

Wrong, it has nothing to do with characters you are just giving an uninformed opinion formed through Osmosis. It has to do with everything outside of math in the typical math texts in the USA.

Here is a copy and paste from an email from Plano, Texas today at 4:19 that I have not had time to read...yet
2.6.18 – ABC News 13

“Parents outraged over math teacher's cocaine homework equations”

https://abc13.com/roxana-school-district-math-teacher-gives-students-questions-about-cocaine-and-drugs/3040345/

Excerpts from this article:

ROXANA, Illinois -- A high school math teacher is in hot water after he included equations about cocaine and getting high in a homework assignment.

Parents in Illinois said they were very upset after freshman students brought home the offensive math homework, KTVI-TV reports.

One such question, as posted on social media, asked students:

"You take six hundred milligrams of cocaine, your body filters out forty percent per hour, how high are you in three hours?"

Another question: "Unfortunately, you can't pay your dealer and she sets up a payment, you owe her $1,000 and 25-percent daily, how much do you owe her one year later?"

Parent Christina Metz said the answers to these questions are irrelevant, but how they got in front of students are of real concern.

"I think they could have used something else, maybe cans of soda, bottles of water, fruit, something you can put weights to, no cocaine or drugs, that's not very good," Metz said.

…A statement from the district released to the media reads in part:

"The district is addressing the matter with the faculty member and those impacted by this incident. The faculty member has apologized to students and parents for this lapse in judgment and has reiterated the intent was never to promote or make light of illicit drug use."

The district said it is investigating the incident as a personnel matter, according to school district policy.

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Example of worksheet in Language Arts class (course unknown):

https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/ALkAvM3yEc5VRT4-Km2Ry98M8kw=/630x630/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/SCY3T232BL56Y3ETUZXEK5ZA6Q.jpg
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4.19.22 -- “The English Teachers Who Don’t Like Books” – by Mark Bauerlein – First Things -- https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/04/the-english-teachers-who-dont-like-books

Excerpts from this article:

The NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) has a solution. NCTE is the largest body of primary and secondary English teachers in the country. This organization certifies state-of-the-art teaching and research, hosts conferences, and advocates for the field in public affairs. Earlier this month, NCTE issued a position statement that calls for a fundamental change in the discipline. The heading reads “Media Education in English Language Arts,” which tells you where the shift is headed.

Here are the sentences summarizing the goal:

The time has come to decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education. Speaking and listening are increasingly valued as forms of expression that are vital to personal and professional success . . . It behooves our profession, as stewards of the communication arts, to confront and challenge the tacit and implicit ways in which print media is valorized above the full range of literacy competencies students should master…

The real question is how these middling talents and pompous declaimers ever attained positions of authority within the field. What kind of decadence afflicts us when the pedagogues of print are the vandals of print instruction? How did the guardianship of books become the duty of people who aren’t terribly bookish?

 

[johnboiler123]

We flood our country with low iq, third world idiots, tolerate the total lack of focus on education in the black community, then purposely dumb school for everyone else. Sounds like a great idea.

 

[tjreese]

We flood our country with low iq, third world idiots, tolerate the total lack of focus on education in the black community, then purposely dumb school for everyone else. Sounds like a great idea.

Can you think of a more efficient way to create more compliant people?

 

[tjreese]

We flood our country with low iq, third world idiots, tolerate the total lack of focus on education in the black community, then purposely dumb school for everyone else. Sounds like a great idea.

let me add another bit of info on Florida-

4.15.22 – Statement from Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran – -- https://www.fldoe.org/newsroom/late...ishers-attempts-to-indoctrinate-students.stml

“The approved list followed a thorough review of submissions at the Department, which found 41 percent of the submitted textbooks were impermissible with either Florida’s new standards or contained prohibited topics – the most in Florida’s history.

Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics.

The highest number of books rejected were for grade levels K-5, where an alarming 71 percent were not appropriately aligned with Florida standards or included prohibited topics and unsolicited strategies.

Despite rejecting 41 percent of materials submitted, every core mathematics course and grade is covered with at least one textbook.

Overall, Florida is initially not including 54 of the 132 (41 percent) submitted textbooks on the state’s adopted list.”

HERE IS THE LIST OF FLORIDA MATHEMATICS BOOKS K-12 NOT APPROVED: https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/5574/urlt/2122MathInstructMatNotRecList.pdf

 

[tjreese]

Can you think of a more efficient way to create more compliant people?

just to add a bit more- H.L. Mencken whose writings many times were good quotes said the following:

"To take a Ph.D. in education in most American seminaries, is an enterprise that requires no more real acumen or information than taking a degree in window dressing....Most pedagogues...are simply dull persons who have found it easy to get along by dancing to whatever tune happens to be lined out. At this dancing they have trained themselves to swallow any imaginable fad or folly, and always with enthusiasm. The schools reek with this puerile nonsense. Their programs of study sound like the fantastic inventions of comedians gone insane. The teaching of the elements is abandoned for a dreadful mass of useless fol-de-rols... Or examine a dozen or so of the dissertations...turned out by candidates for the doctorate at any eminent penitentiary for pedagogues, say Teachers College, Columbia. What you will find is a state of mind that will shock you. It is so feeble that it is scarcely a state of mind at all. (From "The war on intelligence," December 31, 1928, published in A second Mencken chrestomathy. Vintage, 1994.)"

another- (so this has went on for a long time, but is on STUPID STEROIDS at this time)

The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.— H.L. Mencken

 

[Bruce1]

Vomit. You would blame Biden and “the liberals” if you went to McDonalds and got the wrong order. Inflation wasn’t caused by Biden, it was caused by a worldwide pandemic and huge supply and demand issues. Gas prices aren’t high because of Biden, see first statement. In fact, gas prices have NEVER historically correlated with what party sites in the WH. Biden inherited a f’ing worldwide mess. Do you KNOW why people leave their horrible lives and try to come to the US? You think building a wall will stop that? Mind boggling and laughable lack of interest in facts, just emotional drivel. Go move to Belarus or Russia. See how you like it.

I’ll give you a perfect 10 composite score on the Liberal scale, Co. You meet all of the Liberal talking points to a T. LOL
Mind boggling and laughable interest in facts, just emotional drivel.

 

[tjreese]

I’ll give you a perfect 10 composite score on the Liberal scale, Co. You meet all of the Liberal talking points to a T. LOL
Mind boggling and laughable interest in facts, just emotional drivel.

just a bit more and an couple of examples in Florida.

Florida releases 4 examples of CRT textbook content rejected for public schools

The state of Florida has released four examples of textbooks it has rejected from its school system amid concerns over the promotion of Critical Race Theory and common core principles.

www.foxnews.com