Bible references in Dave Ramsey's finance textbook incites outrage in Florida school district

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Bible references in Dave Ramsey's finance textbook incites outrage in Florida school district
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The group has also objected to the use of materials from PragerU, a conservative media group helmed by radio host Dennis Prager.The outlet reported that Wright obtained official state and county reviews of the book that found it lacking in several areas — including an omission of math concepts related to finance.The district source argued that students learn math in dedicated math classes — and that opposition to the book was rooted in discomfort with the author’s perceived political leanings.

“Instructing students to spend all disposable income erasing debt, rather than learning to appropriately use it to their advantage is too severe,” one stated, according to NPR. “Part of our work with this instruction should be to educate students on how to identify good v. bad debt – not how to avoid it all together.”

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