{"id":47932,"date":"2022-05-21T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=47932"},"modified":"2022-05-21T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T00:55:21","slug":"potpourri-on-education-topics-and-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/21\/potpourri-on-education-topics-and-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri on Education Topics and Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we all know, Gov. DeSantis of Florida has decided to ban math books that might put him and the GQP in an unflattering light.<\/p>\n

But conscientious, patriotic citizens have stepped up to help out by creating useful arithmetic problems and teaching aids.\u00a0 For example, try solving these problems in the new Florida math book:<\/p>\n

[1] An orange man gets 74 million votes, but his opponent gets 81 million. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Show how 74 million is greater than 81 million.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2] Orange man receives 11,780 votes less than his opponent.\u00a0 How many more votes need to be “found” after the election in order for the orange man to claim victory?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[NOTE<\/u>: This is actually a trick question.\u00a0 The correct answer is ZERO<\/strong>.\u00a0 The orange man will claim he won anyway.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Folks decided that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL<\/span> U-Really-18) could actually serve a useful teaching tool moment:<\/p>\n

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And Stephen Colbert (who authored the question) came up with the correct answer: \u201cSchool Supplies\u201d<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the real reason DeSantis is having Florida ban math books?\u00a0 He HATES<\/u><\/em> seeing the \u201cEQUAL\u201d<\/em><\/strong> sign.<\/p>\n

Sticking with DeSantis and Gaetz, the pedophile representative from Florida has changed his plans for one of the final rites-of-passage of High School students:<\/p>\n

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With Gaetz boycotting Disney, there\u2019s now at least ONE<\/em><\/span> safe place in Florida where teenage girls can go.<\/p>\n

Before whiteboards, many of us can recall chalkboards or blackboards.\u00a0 Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) certainly is of that age \u2013 but apparently she must have suffered a terrible chalk incident in her childhood.\u00a0 Because when someone wrote a chalk message in front of her Bangor house, she actually called the cops on them!<\/p>\n

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i was already laughing then i saw the actual thing she called the cops about and lost it lmao https:\/\/t.co\/neQWGYy5eR<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/4Y9JOGSPEq<\/a><\/p>\n

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) May 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n