Florida Rejects Math Textbooks for “Social and Emotional Learning”
Because, of course, SEL is CRT rebranded!
The Florida Department of Education rejected 71% of the math textbooks recently submitted for consideration for grades K-5.
Florida’s DOE and Gov. Ron DeSantis described many of these books as Critical Race Theory, or CRT, in disguise.
DeSantis said in a press release:
… some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students,” said Governor Ron DeSantis.
When pressed by reporters to give examples of the math textbooks teaching CRT, both the Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran, and Gov. DeSantis declined to state or describe examples.
They did say, however, that including “social and emotional learning” disqualified many of the textbooks.
Social and emotional learning, they said, is basically CRT rebranded.
See, if words mean what you say they mean, then you can censor whatever you say needs to be censored.
What is “social and emotional learning”?
Here is the definition of “social and emotional learning” according to CASEL, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning:
SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.
In plain language, social and emotional learning is simply being a nice person.
Here are some examples of social and emotional learning from some of the textbooks Florida rejected.
