Florida Releases Reviews That Led to Rejection of Math Textbooks
To explain its puzzling rejection of dozens of textbooks, the state released 6,000 pages of comments, revealing an often confusing and divisive process.
Dana Goldstein and Stephanie Saul



It was the equivalent of: “Show your work.” To help explain its puzzling rejection of dozens of math textbooks, the state of Florida released nearly 6,000 pages of reviewer comments this week and revealed an often confusing, contradictory and divisive process.

A conservative activist turned textbook reviewer was on the lookout for mentions of race. Another reviewer didn’t seem to know that social-emotional learning concepts, like developing grit, should be banned, according to the state. A third flagged a word problem comparing salaries for male and female soccer players.

As part of the official review process, the state assigned educators, parents and other residents to review textbooks, in part to determine whether ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/us/p ... books.html

Talk about whitewashing history ... It's not just math books in Florida ... the snowflakes are everywhere ...

Texas Educators Want to Change ‘Slavery’ to ‘Involuntary Relocation’ After GOP Bans Topics Making Students ‘Feel Discomfort’
David Badash

An advisory group of Texas educators has proposed changing the word “slavery” to “involuntary relocation” after the Texas State Board of Education directed them to examine how to implement a new law, signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, banning the teaching of topics that would make students “feel discomfort.”

The group, comprised of nine educators, made the proposal for second-grade social studies instruction, but “board members have asked them to reconsider the phrasing, according to ...

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.c ... iscomfort/

Texas Educators Want to Change ‘Slavery’ to ‘Involuntary Relocation’ After GOP Bans Topics Making White Students ‘Feel Discomfort’

There. Fixed it.

Almost ....

Right. No ASSumptions.

Those were the days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings

Just for the record, here is what DeSantis is fighting;

WOKE - aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
Merriam-Webster dictionary

WOKE - having or marked by an active awareness of systemic injustices and prejudices, especially those related to civil and human rights
dictionary.com


So he's saying the state of Florida is where awareness of systemic injustices and prejudices goes to die.

Exactly...after perverting the definition of "woke". Creating false premises and then attacking them is all they have left. Sadly, it works.

This from Virginia

The Virginia history its state board doesn’t want students to know
Our racial history is complex and important, but debates today are eliding entire chapters of it.
Perspective by Kevin M. Levin

The Virginia Board of Education has delayed its review of state standards for history and social studies — a process that it is required to undertake every seven years. The nine-member board is now dominated by appointees of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who campaigned on rooting out critical race theory from schools and offering parents an anonymous tip line to report anything they deem to be suspicious taking place in the classroom.

This politicization of history education and the demonization of history teachers will probably have a profound impact on the now-delayed review. The 2022 History and Social Science Standards of Learning (SOLs) will shape what Virginia students learn about their Commonwealth’s past.

Regardless of what the board approves as the final version, it won’t include one of the most important chapters in Virginia’s history. Just after Reconstruction, between 1879 and 1883, Virginia was governed by a biracial party known as the Readjusters. During this brief period, African Americans assumed positions of significant political power at every level of local and state government decades before the legal restrictions and violence of Jim Crow slammed the doors shut for decades. This history offers an important reminder during our own time of deep political division that political coalitions that transcend class, race and political party are possible even during the most tumultuous times.

Reconstruction came late to Virginia. It did not arrive as a result of an invasion of “carpetbaggers” from the North or military occupation, as Virginians were taught throughout much of the 20th century, but as an unlikely result of the leadership of a former Confederate general and native Virginian.

William Mahone was born in ....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by- ... ents-know/

And from Oklahoma

U.S. teacher says she resigned over a state law requiring teachers to censor books in classroom libraries
Rebekah Riess

An Oklahoma teacher says she has resigned from her position as an English teacher with Norman Public Schools following controversy over the display of, and student access to, more than 500 books in her classroom library.

Summer Boismier, who was an English teacher at Norman High School, told CNN that before the start of the school year, English teachers in the district were asked to review the books in their classroom libraries to see which might "elicit challenges," in relation to an Oklahoma law that restricts ...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/u-s-teache ... -1.6041856

One paragraph in the article stands out


And you don't do that by restricting what they read.

And from Missouri

Missouri to ban sexual images in school library books
Summer Ballentine

A new Missouri law outlawing books with sexually explicit images from school libraries is about to take effect.
Starting Sunday, it will be a misdemeanour punishable by up to a year in jail or a $2,000 fine for librarians and other educators to give students access to such material.

The law does not apply to written descriptions of sex or sexual acts; only photos, drawings, videos and other visual depictions are prohibited.

The law defined explicit sexual material as images "showing human masturbation, deviate sexual intercourse," "sexual intercourse, direct physical stimulation of genitals, sado-masochistic abuse," or showing human genitals.

There are exceptions for anatomy, biology, sex education, art and other images considered educational.

Melissa Corey, the president of the Missouri Association of School Librarians, said the law likely will only apply to certain comic books and graphic novels, which are longer comic books.

Republican state Sen. Rick Brattin spearheaded the legislation by tacking it on to another bill aimed at protecting sexual assault victims' rights. He initially proposed a more ...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/missouri-t ... -1.6044533

And in Nebraska

Nebraska School Shuts Down Student Newspaper After L.G.B.T.Q. Publication
In its final edition, the paper at a high school in Grand Island, Neb., published two opinion columns focused on L.G.B.T.Q. issues.
Eduardo Medina

On March 31, the first period bell at Northwest High School in Grand Island, Neb., had just rung when the principal walked into a journalism classroom adorned with punctuation posters to deliver a new rule directly from administrators.

Students, including at least three who were transgender, were ordered to use the names they were given at birth for bylines because using their preferred names was “controversial,” according to a former student who was in the classroom and a lawyer for the Student Press Law Center.

In response, the student journalists dedicated their final issue in June to L.G.B.T.Q. issues, writing two columns on the topic and a news article about the origins of Pride Month. Then, after publication, the school retaliated, said Mike Hiestand, the Student Press Law Center lawyer.

Northwest Public Schools administrators and the superintendent, Jeff Edwards, shut down its newspaper program in June, infuriating student journalists and press freedom advocates who have denounced the move as censorship.

“I think they said that if they can’t stop it, can’t control it, then they’re just going to get rid of it,” Mr. Hiestand said of the school officials.

The elimination of the program and the student newspaper, Viking Saga, was first reported by ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/us/n ... losed.html

also posted in the Elliot Page thread

Upset over LGBTQ books, a Michigan town defunds its library in tax vote
- A west Michigan public library may close after residents voted to defund it Tuesday
- Voters are upset about LGBT-themed graphic novels in the library
- Residents and library officials are now at a stalemate about what happens next


https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/upset-over-lgbtq-books-michigan-town-defunds-its-library-tax-vote

Brooklyn’s library moves to slip books through red state bans
A program has lent tens of thousands of e-books in places they're shelved.
MADINA TOURÉ

he front line of America’s culture war now runs straight through the nation’s school libraries — with conservatives in dozens of states outlawing books and instruction and the left working to shield targeted authors.

Far from the trenches in states like Florida and Texas, organizations in deep-blue New York are stepping into the fray by directly lending 25,000 books to non-residents since spring, including thousands of students living under the bans. The Brooklyn Public Library’s “Books Unbanned” program provides access to its eBook collection and learning databases for people between the ages of 13 and 21.

The library’s program is reaching into Oklahoma, which enacted some of the most sweeping laws last year to ban materials that might cause anyone to “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress” because of their race or gender identity.

One Oklahoma high school teacher resigned after suffering backlash for introducing students to the program. Now colleagues, students and community members are making yard signs, and kids are wearing shirts to school advertising the program with a barcode that connects to the BPL website on phones.

“The QR code has become — for lack of a better phrasing — it’s become a symbol of resistance locally in my state,” former Norman High School English teacher Summer Boismier said in an interview. She says she quit in protest, and her teaching license is now in jeopardy, after she provided the code to students.

Proponents say they are protecting children from ....

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/2 ... y-00057828

Like the bible? Could be a good one for the courts.

Do they require burkas as well?