For many educational publishing companies and book sellers, sales are plunging as districts shy from purchasing content that might fall afoul of state laws restricting education on race, sex and gender — or draw complaints amid a surge in book challenges.
that prohibits making students feel “guilt, anguish, or … psychological distress” because of their race during lessons about America’s past.
All this has forged a poisonous environment unlike anything the industry has seen, said an executive at a major firm, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from states where the company is still trying to sell textbooks. The executive described complicated, tense negotiations with education departments and school officials.
She said reviewers found troubling stuff: too much focus on slavery, too many examples of “something negative that occurred to somebody that was Black” and implications that Americans are racist. In a final report, the Alliance concluded: “It was as though white people were left out of the textbooks unless they were characterized as the people that brought disease and tortured the Native American Indians and slaves.
. “We don’t want to be banned and we don’t want to carry liability,” he said. “So we’re just going to stop selling in Texas. That’s it.”Alongside a shift in instructional materials, the tone and quality of conversations between publishers and state agents has changed, too, according to industry insiders and thousands of pages of emails read by The Post.
The Florida Education Department, which did not comment on the exchanges, sometimes replied by arranging video or phone calls or by sharing portions of its findings about textbooks. Most publishing companies declined or did not respond to questions about communications with the department.
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