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Florida rejects math textbooks in record numbers over critical race theory

April 18, 2022 | | Print Article

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Although liberal dogma holds that critical race theory is not taught in public schools, Florida has rejected 41 percent of math textbooks for including CRT-related material and other prohibited topics.

The disapproved works totaled 54 of the 131 submitted for Department of Education review, 28 of which incorporated CRT, the agency explained in a press release.

Richard Corcoran, Florida’s education commissioner, said, in part, that “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.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis implied that publishers were attempting to repurpose the same old propaganda.

“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. I’m grateful that Commissioner Corcoran and his team at the Department have conducted such a thorough vetting of these textbooks to ensure they comply with the law.”

Common Core constitutes certain federal top-down standards. Education officials also gave a failing grade to any book that included so-called social-emotional learning, which revolves around feelings and social interaction, in mathematics.

In June 2021, the state board of education officially banned CRT in schools.

Textbooks in Florida are required to align with Florida’s Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (BEST) standards.

“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,” the FDOE news release added.

Officials pointed out, however, that there is at least one approved math textbook for teaching every core mathematics course and grade.

Publishers have the right to appeal the DOE’s decision and also to submit revised math materials that meet the BEST standards.

In the meantime, DeSantis’ tireless press secretary Christina Pushaw has the receipts that CRT is embedded in the math curriculum in other jurisdictions.

On Twitter, Pushaw wrote above a purported example of a ninth-grade take-home assignment that apparently refers to the turbulent life of poet Maya Angelou: “This is math homework from a public school district in Missouri. How does this help kids learn algebra, exactly? No wonder China is winning…”

“Those who are saying it’s fake need a reality check on what kind of content is being promoted in schools nowadays,” she added.

The homework apparently dates back to February and prompted an apology from the superintendent of schools in the Missouri school district.

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16 thoughts on “Florida rejects math textbooks in record numbers over critical race theory”

  1. This is why American children are failing in STEM fields. The Left is so busy injecting CRT principles into EVERYTHING that they don’t give a rat’s rear end about EDUCATING the children.

    I thank Heaven every day that my son has two parents that can EDUCATE him in science, math and technology, as well as English and history. My kid can not only understand Calculus, Chemistry and Biology, he has also read classic literature. NOT ONE of his English classes in high school exposed him to Shakespeare, Dostoevsky or James. It was all sorts of modern garbage with vile, violent plots, such as Purple Hibiscus and similar. All depressing stories with no moral lesson. After reading everything that was sent home with him, I don’t wonder about the suicide rate among young people anymore. Reading that garbage when I was that age would have made me consider it as well.

    How about maybe – just maybe – we try teaching MATH in math class and leave the wokeism to parents who want it?

  2. Need to have your childrens non textbook school work looked at, because sadistic teachers will use their own work to counter what they think should be taught. Ask your children if they’re being taught from the approved book or what the teacher gives them. Just saying

  3. The average American reads at the 7th- to 8th-grade level, according to The Literacy Project. Preliminary results suggest that college freshmen reading ability overall is between 5th and 12th grade. The average American’s science and math knowledge taps out around the sixth-grade level, according to new research. It is just an assumption on my part but I think that it might be just a bit more important for Schools to focus on the fundamentals such as Math, Reading, and the Sciences. To think that a person is going off to college and can only read at a 7th- to 8th-grade level is beyond pathetic. The schools, school boards, teachers unions and the teachers are doing this country a grave dis-service and parents should be holding them accountable. If you want to teach your own hair brained theories that is great, just don’t do it in schools funded by my tax money. If I am paying for something I feel that it is my Right to get what I want for the money I am spending. If you as the seller/teacher do not wish to meet my rules or standards then get the hell out and let someone who will provide what I want do the job.

    1. Back in the late 60s early 70s. I advanced in grade and in the higher grade history class they had brand new history books. With a new history and what was learned the year before was changed or no longer taught. I ask my teacher why, she said that this was the new history. It seemed like evey few year history changed. More and more was being left out and replaced. I guess the truth was racist. Just saying

  5. Do something in your schools! Get a copy of the rejection list and comments for those rejections.

  6. Everyone should read some of the ” math” problems these books include. You wouldn’t believe the measure of propaganda they include. Not only should these books be rejected, but the publishers and the companies that have created these travesties should be procecuted. Parents all over this country should check their children’s subject matter and refuse to allow exposure to such blatant tripe. If enough states or education systems reject books for content and the companies and publishers have to eat those losses, maybe the kids will get real educations. People you really do need to see the content of these states “math” problems. It would be laughable if it wasn’t such blatant, disgusting , and treacherous indoctrination materiel.

    1. You raise an important point. Parents shouldn’t assume that math is what is being taught in math class. Nor should they assume that the teacher is teaching it correctly. I have had to correct teachers more than once when they gave incorrect education to my kid.

      When I pointed out an error in how his 6th grade math teacher was teaching them a skill in statistics with a problem she “made up”, the teacher had the nerve to try to push back. I informed her that my degree in Nuclear Chemistry and 25 years in Medical Device quality control (both fields that use LOTS of statistical analysis) meant that I had spent more years using statistics than she had been alive.

      WAY too many teachers have been taught during their “training” that they are smarter than the parents of the students they teach. That is not true. Many of these children that they release into classrooms aren’t as smart as half the children they teach. They have not learned basic skills and are more interested in pushing indoctrination than in educating.

      Don’t let up on them. Read what they give your kids to read. Read their math, history and science assignments. Check out the information to determine if what they tell your kids is true or not. You only get one shot at raising your kids. Don’t let schools screw them up because YOU will bear the consequences, not the school.

  7. Glad Florida is checking the material. Math should be only math. What is wrong with these sick people trying to sneak sex, genderism, and CRT into math books so they can claim they aren’t teaching it? CRT is nothing but race baiting and shaming.

  8. Good for FLORIDA! Makes so much sense! If I had school age children, the last place I’d want them to be is in a public school to be indoctrinated. DeSantis is making so much good sense. I’d move to Florida in a heartbeat.

  9. Trump moving to Florida has had dramatic effect on the whole state. Florida is now the leader of the free world. Liberals run for your lives.

  11. First state in the nation that has a governor with a pair real balls, not just imaginery like all the rest of them..

  12. Who are these vile perverts writing this perversion for our innocent children? God help us! Gov DeSantis you’re my hero.

  13. Taking care of the state’s day to day business and fighting evil at the same time.
    DeSantis in 2028 for President.

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