The new Florida law, HB7, which forbids CRT from being taught in math classes from K-12 here in Florida has resulted in only ONE publisher of textbooks in the country, Houston-based Accelerated Learning to be eligible to supply books to the State of Florida, out of ALL of the publishers of textbooks in the country!
Uh, do I understand it correctly that there is only one publisher in the entire Florida providing math textbooks without critical race theory?
And I thought that the communists of my youth were overzealous by pushing the mentions of Marxism-Leninism into all kinds of school subjects! Yet they mostly left math alone...
Math that Florida finds objectionable (McSweeney’s, remarkably good).
I find it a quite disgusting type of humor, because it is based on lying. “Critical race theory is just the usual math, people who object against CRT just don’t understand math haha.”
You know that it is a lie. Your opponents know that it is a lie. You know that your opponents know that it is a lie. So we are just having fun bullying our opponents, because the only thing more amuzing than punching your opponents is punching them while yelling “I am not punching you, stop punching yourself”.
(Yet somehow countries outside USA find it quite simple to print math textbooks without CRT.)
Uh, do I understand it correctly that there is only one publisher in the entire Florida providing math textbooks without critical race theory?
And I thought that the communists of my youth were overzealous by pushing the mentions of Marxism-Leninism into all kinds of school subjects! Yet they mostly left math alone...
By the way,
I find it a quite disgusting type of humor, because it is based on lying. “Critical race theory is just the usual math, people who object against CRT just don’t understand math haha.”
You know that it is a lie. Your opponents know that it is a lie. You know that your opponents know that it is a lie. So we are just having fun bullying our opponents, because the only thing more amuzing than punching your opponents is punching them while yelling “I am not punching you, stop punching yourself”.
(Yet somehow countries outside USA find it quite simple to print math textbooks without CRT.)
Seems more likely it’s just corruption.