The short answer: it isn't, and they're throwing chum to their base. Or lying, because they didn't name any of the material that they've banned. Maybe even some

The short answer: it isn't, and they're throwing chum to their base. Or lying, because they didn't name any of the material that they've banned. Maybe even some of both. The slightly longer answer: if you read the claim, it's just a re-warmed litany of current and past right-wing shibboleths. "Inclusions of Common Core." That one's a decade old. "The unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning in mathematics." That one's from the sixties. These are the drumbeat words pounded into the heads of the people listening to talk radio every day. The officials involved know that these phrases cause knee-jerk reactions from their base and the folks doing the banning would like those to associate positive feelings with them the next time they've got an election to win (Corcoran is a pretty well-known Republican flack). (The comedy answer: some of the word problems probably used identifiably nontraditionally white names. And the tragic answer: the comedy answer might be right.)