@sonhouse saidI'd still like some examples. Property values in gentrified neighborhoods?
@wildgrass
Numbers have power. Don't you remember the hullabalu about the number of Satan?
666. a few hundred years ago you put 666 on someone's door in red paint, you can imagine what the town folk would do......
But this stuff from Florida is for one purpose and has nothing to do with the mental health of children. It has a WHOLE lot to do with pandering to his base, most of which are as stupid as Desantis.
I doubt they're counting up the numbers of slaves in South Carolina.
@vivify saidI'd like to see some of the CRT math problems. 😉
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/18/1093277449/florida-mathematics-textbooksFlorida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race theory appeared in some
The Florida education department has rejected 54 mathematics textbooks for its K-12 curriculum, citing reasons spanning the inclusion of critical race theory to Common Core learning concepts.
The rejected b ...[text shortened]... ted topics or unsolicited strategies, including [critical race theory]," the statement said.
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@quackquack saidWhat ''...controversial issues...'' are you referring to?
I taught high school math. It's not really clear why a text book would have material that takes a position on social issues. Factoring, polygons, geometry proofs, trigonometry and traditional math text books don't involve the type of issues that political parties or people normally debate.
It seems that adding controversial issues (regardless of the political bent) would just take away from the appropriate focus.
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@earl-of-trumps saidOh, pleeeze...............woke math
You mean WOKE Algebra, don't ya Jimm?
Cindy has 6 gold bracelets, Jamile has none. How many friends will Jamile need to take some of Cindy's bracelets?
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Can anyone of you show me
these dangerous, controversial books?
We would all like to see these 'commie,' publications.
@jimm619 saidEarl thinks if it ain’t in the Bible or Mein Kampf it’s Marxist he likes to keep things simple.
Oh, pleeeze...............woke math
Can anyone of you show me
these dangerous, controversial books?
We would all like to see these 'commie,' publications.
Nuance is a Marxist concept too you know.
"I'm going to Florida so Gov. Ron DeSantis can keep my kids safe from 'woke' math textbooks"
Rex Huppke, USA TODAY
Like most reasonable Americans, I’m considering moving to Florida to keep my children safe from math.
Ron DeSantis, governor of the Sunshine (unless it illuminates something we don’t want people to see) State, has taken a bold stand against fiendish liberal attempts to use math textbooks to transform young American students into woke and genderless soy children.
The Florida Department of Education rejected more than 50 math textbooks because they included nation-destroying concepts like “Critical Race Theory” and “Social Emotional Learning,” the department announced Friday. The department’s statement carried the headline: “Florida Rejects Publishers' Attempts to Indoctrinate Students.”
Ignorance keeps me safe
I don’t know what critical race theory or social emotional learning are, because I’ve been told they’re dangerous and I’m afraid if I Google them I’ll turn into a lib. But thank goodness DeSantis’ education officials caught those textbooks in time before any students were allowed to learn something.
In the statement, Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran said: “When it comes to education, other states continue to follow Florida’s lead as we continue to reinforce parents’ rights by focusing on providing their children with a world-class education without the fear of indoctrination or exposure to dangerous and divisive concepts in our classrooms.”
The commissioner and the entire DeSantis administration are so concerned about those dangerous and divisive concepts imbedded in math textbooks that they gave the public no specific examples. That’s a smart move, because it protects us all from possible accidental arithmetical indoctrination, and it makes the Democrats super mad.
State Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith of Orlando told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune: “They haven’t shown us what’s inside the books that they claim is critical race theory indoctrination, and there’s a reason they won’t show us, because it’s not there.”
Nice try, social justice warrior. I know the indoctrination is there because I’ve done my research by watching Fox News, the network that taught me long ago that “2 + 2 = 5” and that anyone who says otherwise is a socialist.
A 'very transparent' process?
On Monday morning, Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez spoke with Fox News and said there has been “a systematic attempt by these publishers to infiltrate our children's education by embedding topics such as critical race theory” and then wisely gave no specific examples and said: “This was a very transparent and open process.”
That’s good enough for me. I can fill in the blanks just fine.
For starters, I’m quite sure these textbooks contain references to equilateral triangles, alleged “triangles” that have three equal sides and three equal angles that are always 60 degrees. This is in-your-face leftist geometric messaging, demanding young kids embrace controversial concepts like equality and the soft, liberal idea that all are equal.
And of course, three 60-degree angles? 60-60-60. 6-6-6. That’s satanism. Do the math, people. (Actually, don’t. If you do, Satan wins.)
Our children should be learning only about the traditional right triangle, with occasional, age-appropriate references to the isosceles triangle in advanced grades.
74.2 million votes > 81.3 million votes
The entire concept of greater-than and less-than has been overtaken by communist thinking, to the point where students could read a word problem like, “If Joe Biden received 81.3 million votes in the 2020 presidential election and Donald Trump received 74.2 million votes, who got more votes?” and be told the correct answers is “Joe Biden.”
The right answer is obviously: “Donald Trump, because Joe Biden cheated.” Florida parents can now rest easy knowing their children will never be so misled.
Don’t get me started on any K-12 books that promote mathematical filth like binomials, trinomials and polynomials. THESE ARE CHILDREN, FOR GOD’S SAKE!
And while I have no evidence of this, and if I did I wouldn’t share it with you, I’m sure these banned textbooks included pages of nonsense about Critical Rhombus Theory, which asserts that square supremacy is a social construct embedded in Euclidean geometry. There’s no way I’ll allow some teacher to make my kids feel guilty about the history of shapes.
That’s why I’m moving my family to Florida, where students are taught proper math and encouraged to answer sensible, patriotic math questions like this: “If a Republican governor wants to become president, how many times will he need to mention critical race theory before it happens?”
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@wildgrass saidYour example is stupid, since the person IS being banned.
Such a great argument. Like the bouncer told me at the club one time, "No no you're not banned, but it's also not acceptable that you come in."
Rejecting textbooks is not banning them.
The way you people misuse words is scary.
@jj-adams saidFine I was rejected from the club. I don't think you understand the meaning of words either. The point is that you can ban things from a specific place and it's still a ban.
Your example is stupid, since the person IS being banned.
Rejecting textbooks is not banning them.
The way you people misuse words is scary.
@jj-adams saidThe problem is that they have shown no evidence of their accusations about “indoctrinating race essentialism”. This is slander.
They didn't ban any books; they just didn't accept them as new textbooks for Florida schools.
""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," said Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis."
What's your problem?
Try to think of a more accurate title next time.