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🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Florida bans math books for CRT, airlines shock travelers by dropping the mask mandate mid flight and CNN+ shuts down after a $300M launch fails. Here's a look at what happened this week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
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0:10.6	By now, you've all heard about how school systems across the US are banning critical race theory.
0:17.6	And if you're still not sure what critical race theory is, don't worry, neither are the people banning it.
0:22.8	Now, the states of Florida has announced that it's officially begun its purge of all things CRT.
0:29.6	But some of the targets have taken people by surprise.
0:33.2	The Florida Department of Education is making waves after rejecting 41 percent of submitted math at textbooks because of touchy and prohibited subjects.
0:42.2	The state says more than 50 of those books include references to critical race theory among other things like Common Core,
0:49.8	and therefore are prohibited under the new standards.
0:53.0	CRT teachings, they were banned from Florida's classroom last year.
0:56.6	Orange County Classroom Teachers Association President Wendy Dormall says she's baffled.
1:01.2	I can't imagine what is in a math textbook that would indoctrinate a child.
1:07.2	I really love to see some of these rejected books and see what they highlighted.
1:13.6	Yeah, so would I.
1:15.6	Because I mean, this makes no... Florida is banning math textbooks because the state says that they teach critical race theory, and I'll be honest.
1:23.8	I don't even understand how that works.
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