Florida education officials have reinstated nine math textbooks after their publishers scrubbed them of “woke” content prohibited by Sunshine State law.
“Publishers are aligning their instructional materials to state standards and removing ‘woke’ content,” read a post on the agency’s website.
Those revisions, officials said, allowed for the use of nine math textbooks that had been initially rejected.
The Department of Education had previously barred the use of 41% of all math textbooks that were proposed for use in the state’s public schools.
Officials said the materials were suffused with content that has been formally banned by Gov. Ron DeSantis; including critical race theory and social emotional learning.
Under pressure to provide examples of the offending content, the Florida DOE previously offered several examples.
One lesson on polynomials had a portion titled “What? Me? Racist?” the agency said.
Another problem incorporated graphs that measured levels of racial prejudice and was broken down by age and political leaning.
“The Department is continuing to give publishers the opportunity to remediate all deficiencies identified during the review to ensure the broadest selection of high quality instructional materials are available to the school districts and Florida’s students,” the DOE said after issuing the book rejections.
Excellent job Gov. DeSantis! Would love to see all states follow your example. These publishers are sneaky and crooked. They count on adults not to thoroughly examine these textbooks. You caught them and exposed the truth. Thank you! Job well done!
Strange! Won’t publish my comment. Saying it is a duplicate is a lie. Where are all the other comments?
Wow! That went through. I was thanking Gov. DeSantis. Perhaps rename this site?
“woke”? What are are leaders doing allowing this form of ebonics into our dialect, dictionaries, and schools? If black africans want to remain uneducated, in this Country we practice freedom of choice, even if people make bad decisions for themselves. If they want to remain uneducated, don’t try to borrow words from the English dictionary that are already defined and attempt to reuse that word with their own uneducated definitions. They also got into the name calling category by attempting to create a racists meaning of the name “Karen” (meaning an obnoxious, angry, entitled, and often racist middle-aged white woman who uses her privilege to get her way or police other people’s behaviors). There is already a word for that, that is not directed at a specific race nor is it in the form of being racists, more commonly known as a “bitch” (generally used, non racists, that applies to all females with a complaining nature).
Could not have said it better myself……
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