On 2022-04-16 20:59:57 +0000, Technobarbarian said:

> "Florida bans 28 math textbooks in panic over Critical Race Theory"
>
> "The state of Florida is rejecting 28 mathematics textbooks as a result
> of Republicans' purported outrage over Critical Race Theory.
>
> On Friday, Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran announced
> that the state had rejected the math textbooks under the state's
> Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) standards.
>
> "The approved list followed a thorough review of submissions at the
> Department, which found 41 percent of the submitted textbooks were
> impermissible with either Florida’s new standards or contained
> prohibited topics – the most in Florida’s history. 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," the department announced."
> [snip]
>
> https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-critical-race-theory/
>
> TB

I'm guessing it's the wording for some "word problems"

But it's mostly political posturing by the GOP