EDUCATION ISSUES IN THE NEWS: NEW JERSEY ADMITS SOME LESSONS NOT AGE APPROPRIATE, AND MISSOURI MATH ASSIGNMENT TEACHES CHILDREN ABOUT MAYA ANGELOU'S PAST SEXUAL ABUSE, ETC.

In response to widespread public outcry over gender identity lesson plans that were discovered by parents of first and second graders in New Jersey, Democratic Governor Phil Murphy has softened his initial stance, admitting that some of the materials provided to small children may not have been "age appropriate" but insisting that that these lesson plans represented a mere "handful" of the lesson plans implemented in the state and that they "do not accurately reflect the spirit of the [state's] standards." MORE AT https://www.theblaze.com/news/new-jersey-democratic-governor-phil-murphy-admits-some-gender-identity-materials-provided-to-small-children-in-his-state-may-not-have-been-age-appropriate

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A math homework plan circulating over Twitter on Saturday exposes the absurdity that children are being subject to, in this case learning about author Maya Angelou's life of sexual abuse when she was eight-years-old, and her work as a pimp, prostitute, and nightclub dancer. While this lesson was out of Missouri, it also further reinforces how right Florida's Department of Education was for rejecting 41 percent of math textbooks, since they contained prohibited concepts such as Critical Race Theory (CRT), as Landon covered earlier on Saturday. MORE AT https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2022/04/17/math-assignment-in-missouri-teaches-children-about-maya-angelous-past-of-sexual-a-n2605968

AND FOR LOCAL CHATTER THAT THIS IS FAKE: THE DISTRICT HAS ALREADY APOLOGIZED  https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1515505531582042118/photo/2