Florida releases examples of Critical Race Theory in textbooks

Originally Published on Accuracy in Academia

Florida’s state education agency stirred up criticism when it announced this month that it rejected dozens of math textbooks over concerns of politicization and ideological indoctrination.

The Department of Education rejected a total of 54 textbooks, or 41% of overall submissions from publishers, due to content that they deemed “problematic” and full of “dangerous or divisive concepts,” as Accuracy in Academia previously reported.

The New York Post noted that the state agency published four examples of why these textbooks were rejected on its website.

One example was a lesson plan that was supposed to teach about the addition and subtraction of polynomials, but also featured the title, “What? Me? Racist?”

The problem stated, “More than 2 million people have tested their racial prejudice using an online version of the Implicit Association Test. Most groups’ average scores fall between ‘slight’ and ‘moderate bias, but the differences among groups by age and political identification, are intriguing.”

The same problem then provides a formula and informs students to use the exercises to determine bias.

There were also two examples from textbooks that specifically referenced Social Emotional Learning (SEL), which is another left-wing educational concept. One of the examples cited one of the prominent SEL promoters, called CASEL, and outlined the purpose of SEL.