Florida education officials reject 54 math textbooks for ‘attempts to indoctrinate students’

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..."The Department of Education in every state reviews textbooks regularly, accepting or rejecting them. But new changes to laws in Florida have made that process even more challenging, causing more than 40% of suggested math textbooks to be rejected by the state for attempting to “indoctrinate” students.

The Florida Department of Education sent out a news release on Friday which noted that “41 percent of the submitted textbooks were impermissible with either Florida’s new standards or contained prohibited topics – the most in Florida’s history.” That’s 54 of the 132 textbooks reviewed.

“Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics,” it continued.

The release added that the highest number of books rejected were for grade levels K-5, where an alarming 71 percent were not aligned with Florida standards or included prohibited topics and unsolicited strategies."...