Rejected Florida text books

[happyhoix]

Math books rejected for being about CRT

www.tampabay.com/news/education/2022/04/21/florida-department-of-education-offers-examples-of-math-book-concerns/?outputType=amp

First example talks about doing statistical analysis of a survey about racial bias. Clearly meant for high school kids. Apparently we aren’t allowed to say out loud that racial bias exists.

The other examples are where the lesson plan talks about teaching kids how to be empathetic to other students- how is that CRT - and also, how is that bad? We need a lot more empathy- all we can get, imho.

[Opti]

I'm not surprised about the racial bias one even though from what I know it is not CRT. I didn't understand the rest though. 

[djAdvocate]

clearly, neither do they.

[Tennesseer]

The same people who trust their kids with guns don't trust them with books.

[happyhoix]

Apparently Social Emotional Learning is the new GOP bogeyman.

It tries to incorporate life coping skills into classroom learning- how to understand and regulate your emotions, cooperating with classmates and being more empathetic.

I hate to freak them out, but my Presbyterian Sunday school classes were full of this stuff.

Are Presbyterians commies?

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

If you teach people how to handle and express emotions and deal with people in a healthy way then you're not going to able to whip them up into.a frenzy and point them towards your enemies.

Cults need you to be emotionally unbalanced so they can control you.

I'm not sure if The Republican Party checks all the boxes to be labeled a cult but they are definitely heavily flirting with the title.

[Tennesseer]

‘Everywhere Babies,’ a picture book celebrating infants, just got banned
Author Susan Meyers and illustrator Marla Frazee respond to their book being banned from school libraries in Walton County, Fla.

The inspiration for the popular children’s picture book “Everywhere Babies” came to author Susan Meyers more than 25 years ago, after the birth of her first grandchild. It was around Christmas, she recalls, and she kept seeing Nativity scenes everywhere — baby Jesus embraced by his doting mother, surrounded by kindly visitors. Meyers, deeply smitten with her 5-month-old grandson, was struck by the everyday, extraordinary miracle of babies in their earliest months of life, how their development touches the lives of everyone around them. So she decided to write about it.

Since its publication in 2001, “Everywhere Babies” — a whimsical, lyrical ode to infancy, illustrated by Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Marla Frazee — has become a staple of family bookshelves, a common recommendation in new parent groups, and a celebrated title on Best Books lists.

But for the first time in its history, “Everywhere Babies” was featured this week on an entirely different kind of list: The book was among dozens of works recently banned from public school libraries in Walton County, Fla. School district officials confirmed the removal of the books to WJHG-TV in Florida. Walton County School Superintendent Russell Hughes told the outlet that it was “necessary in this moment for me to make that decision and I did it for just a welfare of all involved, including our constituents, our teachers, and our students.”

Hughes did not respond to requests for comment from The Washington Post. A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Education referred questions to Walton County, noting that “individual school districts are responsible for making these decisions,” and did not respond to follow-up questions.

The decision made Walton County the latest jurisdiction to join a growing number of communities across the country that have sought to ban books that address subjects such as race, LGBTQ people, sex or other topics deemed offensive by the books’ critics. A slew of titles — many of them classic and award-winning works of children’s and young adult literature — have been stripped from shelves in school buildings and public libraries in states including Texas, Montana, Louisiana and Florida.

Meyers and Frazee each spoke to me about their book, the experience of seeing it banned from public school libraries for the first time, and what they hope parents might take away from what’s happening in Walton County and beyond. Their responses have been edited for length and clarity.

Complete article here: ‘Everywhere Babies,’ a picture book celebrating infants, just got banned

[djAdvocate]

the American Taliban is no longer John Walker Linde.

[tbop77]

It's all a bunch of bullshit, they have no platform to run on....just stirring up their base.  Anyone one that can think can see that. 

Then you have to remember, this is the bunch that elected Donald Trump.  And I can't wait to see Trump destroy DeSantis...

[teen persuasion]

Apr 22, 2022 18:02:26 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

‘Everywhere Babies,’ a picture book celebrating infants, just got banned
Author Susan Meyers and illustrator Marla Frazee respond to their book being banned from school libraries in Walton County, Fla.

The inspiration for the popular children’s picture book “Everywhere Babies” came to author Susan Meyers more than 25 years ago, after the birth of her first grandchild. It was around Christmas, she recalls, and she kept seeing Nativity scenes everywhere — baby Jesus embraced by his doting mother, surrounded by kindly visitors. Meyers, deeply smitten with her 5-month-old grandson, was struck by the everyday, extraordinary miracle of babies in their earliest months of life, how their development touches the lives of everyone around them. So she decided to write about it.

Since its publication in 2001, “Everywhere Babies” — a whimsical, lyrical ode to infancy, illustrated by Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Marla Frazee — has become a staple of family bookshelves, a common recommendation in new parent groups, and a celebrated title on Best Books lists.

But for the first time in its history, “Everywhere Babies” was featured this week on an entirely different kind of list: The book was among dozens of works recently banned from public school libraries in Walton County, Fla. School district officials confirmed the removal of the books to WJHG-TV in Florida. Walton County School Superintendent Russell Hughes told the outlet that it was “necessary in this moment for me to make that decision and I did it for just a welfare of all involved, including our constituents, our teachers, and our students.”

Hughes did not respond to requests for comment from The Washington Post. A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Education referred questions to Walton County, noting that “individual school districts are responsible for making these decisions,” and did not respond to follow-up questions.

The decision made Walton County the latest jurisdiction to join a growing number of communities across the country that have sought to ban books that address subjects such as race, LGBTQ people, sex or other topics deemed offensive by the books’ critics. A slew of titles — many of them classic and award-winning works of children’s and young adult literature — have been stripped from shelves in school buildings and public libraries in states including Texas, Montana, Louisiana and Florida.

Meyers and Frazee each spoke to me about their book, the experience of seeing it banned from public school libraries for the first time, and what they hope parents might take away from what’s happening in Walton County and beyond. Their responses have been edited for length and clarity.

Complete article here: ‘Everywhere Babies,’ a picture book celebrating infants, just got banned

We've got this book in boardbook form at the library.  In fact, someone requested it ILL today, so I read thru it before sending it off.  There is nothing objectionable, at all, it's perfectly lovely with hundreds of drawings of babies and family members of every type imaginable.

Couldn't read the paywalled article, eventually found something referencing it that suggested the objectionable picture was a male gay couple embracing.  Had to look VERY hard to find it - it's a street scene - that page is about babies everywhere going places and how they do it (backpack, frontpack, sling, stroller, cartseat, bikeseat, shoulders, etc) so there are dozens of people walking on the street.  In the busy scene, there's two guys of indeterminate age walking with an arm casually around each other.  They could be brothers, best buddies ... not what I was thinking  when I read "embrace".

They are REALLY stretching with this one.

[happyhoix]

Apr 23, 2022 11:01:17 GMT -5 teen persuasion said:

Apr 22, 2022 18:02:26 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

‘Everywhere Babies,’ a picture book celebrating infants, just got banned
Author Susan Meyers and illustrator Marla Frazee respond to their book being banned from school libraries in Walton County, Fla.

The inspiration for the popular children’s picture book “Everywhere Babies” came to author Susan Meyers more than 25 years ago, after the birth of her first grandchild. It was around Christmas, she recalls, and she kept seeing Nativity scenes everywhere — baby Jesus embraced by his doting mother, surrounded by kindly visitors. Meyers, deeply smitten with her 5-month-old grandson, was struck by the everyday, extraordinary miracle of babies in their earliest months of life, how their development touches the lives of everyone around them. So she decided to write about it.

Since its publication in 2001, “Everywhere Babies” — a whimsical, lyrical ode to infancy, illustrated by Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Marla Frazee — has become a staple of family bookshelves, a common recommendation in new parent groups, and a celebrated title on Best Books lists.

But for the first time in its history, “Everywhere Babies” was featured this week on an entirely different kind of list: The book was among dozens of works recently banned from public school libraries in Walton County, Fla. School district officials confirmed the removal of the books to WJHG-TV in Florida. Walton County School Superintendent Russell Hughes told the outlet that it was “necessary in this moment for me to make that decision and I did it for just a welfare of all involved, including our constituents, our teachers, and our students.”

Hughes did not respond to requests for comment from The Washington Post. A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Education referred questions to Walton County, noting that “individual school districts are responsible for making these decisions,” and did not respond to follow-up questions.

The decision made Walton County the latest jurisdiction to join a growing number of communities across the country that have sought to ban books that address subjects such as race, LGBTQ people, sex or other topics deemed offensive by the books’ critics. A slew of titles — many of them classic and award-winning works of children’s and young adult literature — have been stripped from shelves in school buildings and public libraries in states including Texas, Montana, Louisiana and Florida.

Meyers and Frazee each spoke to me about their book, the experience of seeing it banned from public school libraries for the first time, and what they hope parents might take away from what’s happening in Walton County and beyond. Their responses have been edited for length and clarity.

Complete article here: ‘Everywhere Babies,’ a picture book celebrating infants, just got banned

We've got this book in boardbook form at the library.  In fact, someone requested it ILL today, so I read thru it before sending it off.  There is nothing objectionable, at all, it's perfectly lovely with hundreds of drawings of babies and family members of every type imaginable.

Couldn't read the paywalled article, eventually found something referencing it that suggested the objectionable picture was a male gay couple embracing.  Had to look VERY hard to find it - it's a street scene - that page is about babies everywhere going places and how they do it (backpack, frontpack, sling, stroller, cartseat, bikeseat, shoulders, etc) so there are dozens of people walking on the street.  In the busy scene, there's two guys of indeterminate age walking with an arm casually around each other.  They could be brothers, best buddies ... not what I was thinking  when I read "embrace".

They are REALLY stretching with this one.

So this CRT fear mongering is just a front to hide the delicate children from seeing pictures of gay people? 

I feel like we’re at the beginning of the Handmaid’s Tale. 

[dondub]

It’s in play.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology

www.texasobserver.org/dominion-theology/

[happyhoix]

Apr 23, 2022 14:40:49 GMT -5 dondub said:

It’s in play.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology

www.texasobserver.org/dominion-theology/

They need to go back and read some history books about the founding fathers. Books written by historians and not edited by the State of Florida. The country was not founded by Christians- a lot of the founding fathers were deist. There was a synagogue in Georgia in 1735 and one in Rhode Island before that.

Not the only thing they are wrong about.

[djAdvocate]

this is what they have to compete with science and fact.

it is pale broth, but Trump Nation drinks it up.

[teen persuasion]

If anyone would like to see the Everywhere Babies book, here's a video read-a-long:




On a related note (challenged books), DS5 told us the ENG 10 teacher is currently doing Maus in class. His friend enjoyed it so much that he was reading it thru History class.