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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

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It'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.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/21/desantis-examples-critica...

Re: Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race theory appeared in some

#143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh sure, maybe. If they bothered to release the list of titles and the isbn for each book that was banned perhaps we could reach such a conclusion. But since no such list exists and no citation examples are provided. Seems pretty easy to dismiss the actions taken by the Florida Department of Education as strictly political. What do they have to hide? I want to see what they consider to be prohibited topics for a math…

Here you go. I think that RickJWagner's point is why not wait. Why jump to conclusions and post inflammatory headlines as a default... because NPR is a leftist political entity now. https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/21/desantis-examples-critica...

Ok, I'm looking at the examples. What's wrong with them? What am I too stupid to understand?

Re: Florida rejects 54 math books, claiming critical race theory appeared in some

#144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh sure, maybe. If they bothered to release the list of titles and the isbn for each book that was banned perhaps we could reach such a conclusion. But since no such list exists and no citation examples are provided. Seems pretty easy to dismiss the actions taken by the Florida Department of Education as strictly political. What do they have to hide? I want to see what they consider to be prohibited topics for a math…

Here you go. I think that RickJWagner's point is why not wait. Why jump to conclusions and post inflammatory headlines as a default... because NPR is a leftist political entity now. https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/21/desantis-examples-critica...

https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/15155048325509447...

Oh man the second one is at least a little funny. I can certainly say seeing that may have kept a horrifically bored 6th grade me a little more engaged on that paper.

The one about the sexual abuse is too extreme though and def shouldn’t be a casual subject for word problems.

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