After more than 40% of math textbooks in Florida were rejected, publishers surrendered to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ demands to remove “woke content.”
On Tuesday, the Florida Department of Education announced that “publishers are aligning their instructional materials to state standards and removing woke content allowing the department of education to add 19 more books to the state adoption list over the past 17 days.”
The department rejected 54 of 132 math textbooks, with 28 of them allegedly including “prohibited ideas or unsolicited tactics” such as critical race theory, or CRT. It recently updated its list on its website, adding 37 math books to the “not recommended” category.
The department released examples of what it calls “problematic elements” within textbooks recently reviewed and rejected by the department.
However, the examples came in the form of photos on the department’s website with a lengthy disclaimer saying, in part:
“Based on the volume of requests the Department has received for examples of problematic elements of the recently reviewed instructional materials, the following are examples provided to the department by the public and presented no conflict in sharing them.”
Graphics depicting racial prejudice by age group and political affiliation, as well as a “social and emotional learning” instructive unit “intended to promote student agency by concentrating on students’ social and emotional learning,” are among the activities highlighted by the FLDOE.
From @EducationFL on math textbooks for Florida schools: “Publishers are aligning their instructional materials to state standards and removing woke content, allowing the department to add 17 more books to the state adoption list over the past 14 days.” 🙌🙌🙌
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) May 3, 2022
FLDOE Press Secretary Cassie Palelis said in a statement to the Daily Caller:
“We have high standards and reject books with unacceptable content because we know that publishers can easily adjust their materials to meet our guidelines, as displayed by the fact that it took less than two weeks for additional publishers to amend entire books, resubmit them and get put on the adoption list.”
According to Palelis, the department would continue to allow publishers “to rectify all flaws discovered during the study in order to guarantee the broadest assortment of high-quality instructional resources is available to school districts and Florida’s children.”
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Sources: Dailycaller, Dennismichaellynch, Americanfaith
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