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Amanda Marcotte

In Trump's image: GOP wants school bully

Donald Trump | Children in a classroom Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

Republicans, led by Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis, aren't slowing down their war on public education. They really do seem to think they've got a winner with this strategy of misappropriating educator jargon, lying about what it means, and using that to scare gullible parents and (mostly) bigoted old people into joining the fight to gut a child's right to an education. This is how the state of Florida has reached beyond the scare tactics of lying about critical race theory and the "don't say gay" bill to banning a whole slew of math textbooks, claiming that the textbooks had, uh, "Woke Math" in them. 

A better picture of what the hell Republicans consider "Woke Math" finally started to emerge and, unsurprisingly, was largely centered on the latest right-wing hysteria. 

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