What's the over-under on how long it takes for this thread to devolve into mud-slinging?
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Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race theory appeared in some
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Re: Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race theory appeared in some
#12It'd be nice if the Florida DoE actually included some examples of the objectional text
If you give people specifics, they can argue about those specifics. Handwavy "crt" claims are all most people need to support this decision. Digging in to actual facts and specifics gets too messy, and might cause people to have to think too much.
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#14Can someone simply explain what is this critical race theory?
The wikipedia definition seems to match with my own understanding of what it is:
> cross-disciplinary intellectual and social movement of civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to examine the intersection of race, society, and law
In the country where I was brought up that was just part of history/society classes instead of a separate thing, but racial tensions in the US seems more extreme than anywhere else so maybe that's why it exists as a separate thing?
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#15The article is lacking in substance because it does not actually tell you what material in the math books was so egregious that the book deserved to be banned or may be state of Florida did not publish this information. Banning books seems to be the new battle ground for politicians, sigh.
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#17I'd like to see some concrete examples... but if it's truly in there -- good for them! It has absolutely no reason to be in a math textbook.
Exactly, if this is really news worthy, they should be posting examples along with the agenda
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#18I would be curious if anyone has a high quality link containing real examples that were deemed offensive. My guess is the textbooks had sections that involved quantitatively examining "social justice" issues. I'm not for or against this in a math textbook, but it definitely gives an opportunity to "spin" the situation by massively simplifying the problem discussed, which opens the door to politicization.
Re: Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race theory appeared in some
#19I can understand rejecting them for "failed to meet curriculum standards", but what does "incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies" really mean? Are there math topics and "stategies" that are illegal in the US/Florida somehow? I also understand that including critical race theory in math books seems wildly irrelevant (unless I miss something) and therefor not fit for the curriculum. But I'm interested…
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Re: Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race theory appeared in some
#20I can understand rejecting them for "failed to meet curriculum standards", but what does "incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies" really mean? Are there math topics and "stategies" that are illegal in the US/Florida somehow? I also understand that including critical race theory in math books seems wildly irrelevant (unless I miss something) and therefor not fit for the curriculum. But I'm interested…
Unsolicited strategies are "core math". I am convinced 98% of the books are banned because of this but they tossed in CRT to get peoples' wallets out for political donations.
Title may as well have been "dear leader protects children".