FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released two examples that it says back up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they contained questions and exercises based on Common Core or critical race theory, issues that opponents say are not actual problems.The state did not identify which textbooks the examples come from, but one appears to be from an advanced high school algebra or statistics textbook and begins with the phrase, "What?
Me? Racist?" It has students work with data reported by an online test that researchers say uncovers hidden attitudes toward different races.The other appears to come from a teacher's guide to a kindergarten or first-grade textbook.
The lesson is entitled "Social and Emotional Learning - Building Student Agency"; students work together as they put the numbers 1 to 5 in proper order so they can "build proficiency with social awareness as they practice with empathizing with classmates."FLorida Gov.
Ron DeSantis delivers remarks in Aventura, Florida. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) The state rejected more than 50 math textbooks — about 40% of those submitted.