by Chris O’Carroll
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| Some schools are considering altering the way they teach math to better serve struggling K-12 students. But the debate is being sucked into the culture wars. —“Is math racist? Wrong question.” The Washington Post, December 15, 2021. See also: “Is math education racist? Debate rages over changes to how US teaches the subject.” USA Today, December 7, 2021. |
The Florida Department of Education announced Friday that the state has rejected more than 50 math textbooks from next school year’s curriculum, citing references to critical race theory among reasons for the rejections. —CNN, April 17, 2022
They’ve been slipping weird racial ideas in our math!
Ron DeSantis erupts in a geyser of wrath.
When Florida’s white math books spring into action,
Black lives will be in for a touch of subtraction.
Chris O’Carroll is the author of two books of poems, The Joke’s on Me and Abracadabratude. He is a Light magazine featured poet and a contributor to several volumes of the Potcake Chapbooks series. His work has appeared in Extreme Sonnets, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle, New York City Haiku, and The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology, among other collections.