"When Florida released the names Monday of the 54 math textbooks it had rejected, most for allegedly including “critical race theory” or other “prohibited topics,” I was struck by how the publishers had adjusted their titles to reflect the state’s singular interpretation of the subject matter.
"The books had names such as “Florida Reveal Math,” or “Florida’s B.E.S.T. Math,” or simply “Florida Math.” The titles essentially codified what Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s censorship program has accomplished: There is math — and then there is Florida math.
"On one level, we already understood that “Florida math” is not the same thing as “math”:
"Problem 1: In an election, the Republican candidate gets 232 electoral votes and the Democratic candidate gets 306. Who won?
"Answer: It was rigged." -- Dana Milbank, in today's Washington Post, in a tour-de-force skewering of ambitious culture warrior Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' risible but ominous efforts to cleanse math textbooks (!) of the chimera of CRT (for the millionth time, not taught in K-12) and other "prohibited topics," i.e., hobgoblins of the far right- wing fever swamps. Milbank was just getting warmed up in the quote above, so be sure to check out the whole op/ ed.
