It might not just be Abbott, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people that own manufacturing interests are driving up prices for political reasons.
What Texas is doing sounds a whole lot like something John Eastman suggested that they do in the interest of advancing what Eastman and his coauthor Stephen Balch call the “cold civil war.”
Here’s a link to the actual editorial, which ran on a noxious propaganda site called American Greatness.
And here’s a link to a summary and some commentary.
The message board tells me I’ve posted these links recently, but they are really relevant to the new discussion, so I’m reposting them
It’s a cold, heartless, cruel world populated by bastard-coated bastards, and the sooner children realize nobody gives a shit about them the quicker they’ll toughen up. SEL = communism!!1!
Meanwhile, out here on the civilized coast, I’m getting a 2% bonus once I complete 6 hours of SEL training. And maybe I’ll be a better teacher because of it.
One of the books probably had a word problem about Billy deciding to share 15 apples with his two best friends, and as we all know, diving things up equally between people is SOCIALISM and therefore bad.
There was a movement (and I suppose still is) to make textbooks, even math textbooks, more socially diverse. Just about the only clear place where this showed up was in the ethnic names mentioned in word problems. Textbook review committees went through the books and made sure they did this!
A word problem where Billy has to share his apples with two others would have to name the students: Billy wants to share his 15 apples with his friends Chu and Rufus…
Girls’ names had to be in there somewhere too.
A word problem, thus worded, I suppose is exactly what Florida forbids. Heaven forfend that a Billy should have to share his apples with a Chu or a Rufus!
The above sarcastic remarks is only semi-facetious. Really, this sounds like Florida is trying to forbid some of the same stuff that other states require in their textbooks. The publishers are going to have to have separate editions for every state. And children will be learning state-specific math from now on.
ETA: What kind of name is Chu? Is that supposed to be Chinese? I’ve never seen or heard that particular name. Yes, it was in a college-level beginning algebra textbook I saw at a California Community College.
It covers everything from inclusiveness to bullying to inadvertent racism/sexism to "How to spot if Ashley is having a crisis and will wet herself if Rover doesn’t find that 4th rubber ball.
What form would this take in an elementary-level math textbook?
I am more creeped out that how manipulative this whole photo shoot is. DeJerkis surrounded by sweet little kids in their school uniforms. Note the kid holding the sign saying “Protect children”. And they are complaining about children having their thinking dictated to them by the teachers.
And they rant about kids being “groomed”. Well, they are grooming Florida kids right up to becoming Hitler Youth.
You mentioned it in your post - inclusive names and genders. Plus probably teaching 3rd graders how to radicalize the proletariat in the cheapest manner possible, using fractions and long division.
Reminds me of the poor guy in Texas who replaced one of his two Texas flags with a Ukrainian flag and got hate messages for “taking down the American flag”.
Ah, I mixed up the locales. @Rick_Kitchen’s link is the same story, and it’s that one of the Texas flags was taken down while the owner still flies the American flag. So Kentucky has joined ranks with Texas for the Big Stupid.
“If the average plutocrat weighs 280 pounds, of which 4/10s is fat, and 1/8th bone, how long can he feed a struggling family of four when we decide to Eat the Rich?”