Florida Math textbook backlash for social-emotional learning

Originally Published on WINKnews.com

A math textbook using social-emotional learning from Kindergarten through fifth grade is getting pushback by a small group in Collier County.

The Collier County School District Board approved the books in question Monday afternoon. In a statement made by the board on Monday, they 100% stand by their textbooks.

A question on page 211 of a McGraw Hill fourth grade math textbook reads, “What can you do today to help build a relationship with a classmate?”

Gayle Repetto from Collier County doesn’t like this or some others in the textbook. “They have different areas of respect and community culture and working together in a safe environment,” Repetto said. “And that really doesn’t have anything to do with math.”

“Math doesn’t have anything to do with respect for others, community culture, how we can work together,” Repetto said…