Social Emotional Learning

Florida Boots Far-Left Math Textbooks

leeduigon(patty)September 20, 2022

(Now watch: some leftid sophist will come along and “prove” that 2 + 2 really does make 5.)

Florida has rejected 41% of its new K-12 math textbooks because the books are full of Critical Race Theory and other Far Left Crazy shibboleths (https://www.wptv.com/news/education/florida-rejects-41-of-new-math-textbooks-citing-critical-race-theory-among-reasons). That’s 54 of 132 new math books rejected because they’re full of really stupid politics.

(“Jamaal has 14 potatoes. A white privilege Karen comes in and gets racist cops to take away 14 of Jamaal’s potatoes. How many does he have left?”)

Gov. Ron DeSantis says math is about getting the right answer. But “educators” want to know, “How do you feel about the math problem?” (Oops! Felt the wrong way! Twelve more sensitivity training sessions for you!)

Florida is also trying root out “Social Emotional Learning (SEL),” which is just the same old Far Left horse-s*** under a new name.

Why do we let our children be “educated” by people who hate us?

C’mon, people! Let’s have some answers.

Florida Rejects 41% of New Math Textbooks

leeduigon(patty)April 19, 2022

Almost half the math textbooks submitted to the Florida Dept. of Education this year have been rejected (https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/florida-rejects-41-submitted-math-books-over-crt-other-issues). Why?

Because–you could probably have guessed this–what are supposed to be math textbooks also contain illegal (in Florida) dollops of Critical Race Theory, Common Core, and Social Emotional Learning (SEL), whatever that is. SEL for them means SOL for us taxpayers. Under Florida’s standards, none of that stuff is allowed.

Math books for grades K-5 were the worst of the lot: 71% of those had to be rejected.

“White Supremacist Johnny has 9 marbles which he got from poor Black children by cheating them. If he steals 2 more from Shawondah, how many marbles will America’s systemic racism credit him with having?”

Hot dog. They call it “education.”

Oh. They’re also larding the math books with “race essentialism.” Translation: “Race is everything.”

Yeah, folks, keep on sending your children to public schools and colleges. You’ll deserve the Useful Idiots you get.

Your School Tax Dollars–Down the Drain

leeduigon(patty)December 29, 2021

Boy howdy, you can’t keep track of all the ways public education finds to pour your money down the drain!

Here’s a new “educationese” cliche I only just ran into today: Social Emotional Learning, or SEL for short (they are very big on acronyms! Makes this schiff sound important.)

What is it? First find a machete to hack your way through all the acronyms. Apparently it has something to do with having the school replace the family as a child’s primary source of mental health etc. (Arne Duncan pioneered that nonsense, back in the bad old days of Obama.) Some of it is to teach children “to work well with others and control their emotions.” Did that use to be called “growing up”?

Why does the statist school have to provide “student well-being”? Oh, you’ll love this reason! Because “mental and emotional health in the US have declined over the last few years”–you can take any “educator’s” word for it, I suppose–and, get this: “About one in three children in the United States suffer at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE–”

Wait! Stop! What do they mean, “adverse childhood experience”? Is that what we used to call “life”? Are there some lucky people out there who never had an “adverse childhood experience”?

They also mean to help children “develop healthy identities.” What? Do you know what they’re talking about?

If people ever truly knew and understood how public education wastes their money, that they worked for, that they could have used for their own households–if people ever woke up to that… well, heads would roll.

[Note: The links to SEL articles are too unwieldy for me to manage. Suffice it to say I’ve read them.]