EVIL MATH!!! 👿

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In another 20 years or so, there won’t be a young Floridian who is able to get and hold a job, other than perhaps one pushing burgers through the drive-through window at Wendy’s.  Why?  Because in Florida, there will soon be nothing left to teach in public schools.  First there was the bill that banned the teaching about lessons touching on race or gender.  Only whitewashed history – false history embellishing the good and hiding the bad – is allowed to be taught.  And the latest?  Florida has just banned 54 math textbooks, saying they touched on critical race theory and other ‘prohibited topics’!  MATH textbooks!!!  So … the next generation in Florida will not be able to balance a checkbook, let alone count back change to a customer or do their own taxes!

C’mon people … critical race theory has become a dog whistle for Republicans … something they use to raise the fears of people in their state, even though the damn lawmakers writing these laws don’t have the foggiest notion what CRT actually is.  It is not taught in schools, and it damn sure isn’t found in math books!  Have these people lost their bloody minds?  Do they really want to raise a generation that cannot think, that has no idea how to even think for themselves?  Oh, they’ll know how to shoot a gun, but anything else is likely to be beyond their realm of capability.

But wait!  There’s a solution … if you’re wealthy, that is.  You can spend lots of money to send your children to private schools where they might actually learn something useful and be better prepared for college and eventually a lucrative career!  For several years now I have thought that schools were being ‘dummied-down’ in order to ensure a future where the only people educated enough to hold high-level government offices would be the offspring of the ultra-wealthy … children of corporate executives and the like.  Laws being passed in Florida and numerous other states seem to be playing into that scenario.  Right now, the wealth in this nation is concentrated, owned by a relative handful of people while that handful pays money to members of Congress to ensure that we peons are kept working for a relative pittance!  The minimum wage was last raised in 2009 … how much wealth has Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk accumulated in those 13 years while the average Joe has struggled to simply pay his rent and put food on the table?  I bet my life’s savings … all $14.96 of it … that the offspring of Bezos & Musk do not attend public schools in Florida or anywhere else!

Those who work for a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour cannot possibly afford to send their children to private schools so that they can get a good education instead of the brainwashing Florida and other states are determined to provide in public schools.  This trend began with Betsy DeVos being put in the position of Secretary of Education under the former guy with the sole goal of ensuring that only the wealthiest are availed of the opportunities that will take them far in life.  She’s gone now, but the trend to keep children from being educated continues at the state level in states where Republicans dominate the state legislatures and governor’s offices.

Heck, before long even such classes as Literature, Science and Art will be taboo.  Think about it … Literature is filled with stories of struggle by various races and the tales of rich vs. poor — can’t have that now, can we?  And Science … well, we surely cannot allow our children to understand such things as ecosystems and how humans are destroying the environment!  Why, it could put the fossil fuel barons out of business!  And Art … well, what if some unsuspecting child were to draw a picture of a Black kid and a white kid playing together!  GASP!!!

Florida is not alone … it is, however, the first that I’m aware of to ban math books claiming they promote Critical Race Theory!  This is the most ridiculous pile of garbage I’ve ever heard and it is to be hoped that the good people of Florida will take the very next opportunity to throw the entire lot out of office and elect people who care about the future of this nation and future generations!

40 thoughts on “EVIL MATH!!! 👿”

  1. One of my favourite books is John Gatto – Dumbing us Down. Children in the USA being indoctrinated from early years to senior years to comply with the rules, never to question or reason why. The books they read are all censored to make sure children only learn what is permitted.
    Sounds like the paranoid where Maths books are concerned. Why would CRT be associated with Maths?

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    • I haven’t read that book … in fact wasn’t aware of it until just now … but I just checked out a sample of it, read the intro, and I think I will order the book, for the premise is very thought-provoking. My daughter and I homeschooled my granddaughter (who is now 27!) and I swear she is far more knowledgeable, more of a thinking person, than a couple of straight-A students who graduated from the local school system and have gone on to college. Definitely thought-provoking, but sadly, far too many parents lack either the time, resources, or ability to homeschool their children. As to why CRT would be associated with Maths … I’m 99% certain there isn’t a single correlation. My best guess is there was perhaps a picture of an inter-racial couple or something else the religious right find offensive, thus they banned the entire book!

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  4. Oh I’m embarrassed to live in Florida, but there are some normal liberal people here too.
    And I think this keeping the middle to poor classes uneducated is the game plan, as it keeps them poor and beholden too. The rich will get richer with all the advantages including a proper education, and the others classes will ultimately die off. This is the goal.
    I’m sure you’ve heard of longtermerism and this is exactly the plan. The 99% don’t count…just the 1%..the extremely wealthy, which are those that control worldwide. Trump is a tool of the 1% and his cultists are a means to an end.

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    • Oh I know that, Mary! In fact, of all the states in the country, I think I have more friends/readers in Florida than any other state. You, Horty, Larry, Scottie … you guys are great and I love you all! Now if you can just convince the rest of the state to stop voting for these fascist jerks like DeSantis … take back your state! Oust that nasty 1%!!! In fact, oust the occupant(s) of Mar-a-Lago and put it on the auction block … maybe somebody could turn it into a nice casino! Hugs, my friend!

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  7. Thank you for sharing!!.. there is a element of today’s societies, not only here in the US but world wide, that resist change or any thinking that may be a threat to their closed minded ideology, especially with the faith based ideologies… and with today’s reality closing in on them with the aid of technology, they are doing whatever they can to prevent change including conflict…. 🙂

    We have seen it in the past here with the Civil War and presently with closed minded divisions…of course there is the Middle East, China, at present Russia, Ireland, the Baltic countries, Africa to name a few… with the exception of language and religion, they are all similar….. 🙂

    Florida may attempt to discourage discussions in the schools “officially”, but the discussions will go on along with change… 🙂

    Until we meet again..
    May your day be touched
    by a bit of Irish luck,
    Brightened by a song
    in your heart,
    And warmed by the smiles
    of people you love.
    (Irish Saying)

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    • You’ve hit the nail on the head, my friend — it largely boils down to resisting change. Funny, people love modern conveniences, love having the world at their fingertips via the internet, but yet in one sense they wish to continue living in the 1950s. You’re right, though … change will happen, some for the better, some not … and people will adapt, although perhaps not without a fight! Thanks to your Irish Saying, I DO have a song in my heart and a smile, too. Have a great week, Dutch!

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  8. OMG! To think that all those years I spent hating anything with numbers weren’t really wasted effort. DOWN WITH MATH! Let’s continue to raise kids that can’t add 2 + 2, can’t spell or write their own names (how DO they manage to sign a check or their Income Tax returns?), believe history is false because the Holocaust and other reports of misconduct by world leaders couldn’t really have happened, and from something I heard recently, believe most books should be banned and/or burned! When they come to confiscate my Kindle I just might throw it at them. Now I have to go treat the headache I got when typing in those numbers!

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    • 🤣 You have made me laugh this morning, my friend!!! Way back in my last two years of high school (I refuse to say how many years back that was!) I tutored fellow-students in math, and in college I worked for a math prof for a bit, sometimes taking over his classes for him. I was always amazed by the number of students who thought math was a waste of their precious time! Apparently, some in our governments agree! 🙄 And heaven forbid that we teach about how Blacks were treated in our history, or Indigenous People or Asian-Americans! Why, our poor little children might feel a need to … make amends, make things better for everyone! Can’t have that now, can we? Sigh. Thanks for the chuckles, my friend!

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      • Glad I could help. But please, never forget the days when there were signs in business windows that said “No Irish Need Apply”. Being half Irish gives me some insight to that situation. My several times great grandparents, Elizabeth and Michael Cashen arrived in this country before the Civil War and Michael fought for the Union side in his new country, having settled in Baltimore initially. But he wasn’t able to get work before or after that. He moved to Kentucky after the war and bought some land here to begin the family farming tradition. In Ireland he was not able to own land and was, for all intents and purposes, a slave who was expected to turn everything he raised on his small plot of land to the squire who actually owned the land. His only crime was that he was Catholic. Slavery wasn’t only a crime against black people. I have a feeling if people would just study their backgrounds they would find that they all came to this country for the same reasons — religious persecution, failure to find work in the parent country, all the things we are now denying our citizens. On my other side is the German heritage with my grandparents immigrating during the days of the Kaiser and his persecution of the peasants. I guess that makes me a peasant at heart. My grandparents on both sides were farmers and they all helped to feed the people in this country during good times and bad.
        Now how did I get started on that? Take care of yourself, my friend. And big, huge sighs from here as well.

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  9. This is illogical, what does mathematics have anything to do with race? Seems like home schooling is the way to go, public education is not what it use to be (reading, writing, arithmetic).

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  12. Why educate them at all, Surely there are places that still require boot blacks or their chimneys swept by young boys climbing them. They might be able to contribute towards the household with a meal a week at that rate.
    Cwtch

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  13. Add Alberta to your list of stoopid states. We haven’t seen all the new cirriculums yet, including math, but what they wrongly call banning CRT in your area they are just calling White History up here. If you are a person of colour–any colour–you will not be able to see yourself in a positive light up here, if the Kenneyites have their way. The teachers who have had a glimpse of some of the new cirriculums say they will tefuse to teach them. Kenhey retaliated at first with, “Then we will hire teachers who will!” He has backtracked a bit since then, but not far enough. He too wants only the rich to be university-educated up here. Every year he cuts the univerdity’s budgets while upping the price of tuition. The so-called man is a danger to society, but we have not heard yet how his leaderdhip review is going. He refuses to release preliminsry results until next month, thus giving him even more time to screw up the future of Albertans. And from what I understand, BoJo is doing the same in England.
    So, it isn’t just Florida or the Red States, it’s all over the world. The fewer well-educated people in the world, the more conservative-voting people in the world, they figure. I hope I am still here to see them get their wake-up calls.

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    • Is that all of Canada, or only Alberta? You guys really need to get rid of Kenney! I haven’t heard that BoJo is attempting to interfere with educational norms in the UK, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be happening. And if Marine LePen wins the French election in a week, no doubt she will attempt to do the same. It seems to be, as you say, a world-wide effort to put the wealthiest in elite positions at the top and leave the rest of us to struggle and starve. I wish I had more faith in parents to demand their children get a well-rounded education even if they have to teach them themselves, but half the parents here are not that well-educated themselves … obviously, since they are Trumpeters and are still convinced that the 2020 election was ‘rigged’. Sigh.

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      • Each province, like each state, is in charge of its own curriculums. We never hear what other provinces are doing, probably because they don’t change their cirriculums much. Kenney didn’t like teaching people of colour how they were mistreated by whites, so he wanted to whitewash history. The land always belonged to white people. Or something lile that. I have only heard bits and pieces, not a comprehensive evaluation of his wants. But no one seems to like it.
        Parents are up in arms, but I am not sure they are all on the same side.

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    • Yes, that was what we all thought a decade or so ago, but then the Republicans decided they needed to push back against having had a Black president not one term, but for two terms! And they found their tool to do just that … Donald Trump. And now, anything that even mentions that the nation may have a dark side to its history is suddenly taboo. I agree with you, update the systems, but don’t sacrifice knowledge and education!

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