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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlabama teacher gave middle school students a math test so racist you have to it see to believe it
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/1/1533224/-Alabama-teacher-gave-middle-school-students-a-math-test-so-racist-you-have-to-it-see-to-believe-itAn as-of-yet unnamed language arts teacher at Burns Middle School in Mobile, Alabama, is on administrative leave after giving 8th grade students a shockingly racist math test. Erica Halls son was so shocked that he snuck a photo of the test and sent it to his mom.
"They took it as a joke, and she told them that it wasn't it a joke, and they had to complete it, and turn it in," Hall said.
Erica Hall and her husband headed to the school Tuesday for some answers.
A sample of the questions on the test:
"Tyrone knocked up 4 girls in the gang. There are 20 girls in his gang. What is the exact percentage of girls Tyrone knocked up?"
Fox10 reporter Renee Dials researched the origins of the test:
FOX10 News did some research to try to find out where the test may have originated. What we discovered is that it apparently has a long history. Similar versions of the 10-question quiz have been turning up in classrooms across the country since the 1990s.
And, a lot of teachers have ended up in hot water over the test in several states including Texas, California, and New Mexico
(here is a photo of the test list questions WARNING: David Duke would probably say this shit is "over the line" .
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jpak
(41,741 posts)yup
LannyDeVaney
(1,033 posts)Sorry Jeff Sessions, you are now under qualified.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)and just plain wrong it is for a teacher to give something like this to students.
It's an old, bad joke taken seriously.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Jamie has concocted a scheme to overheat the real estate market, churning paper so fast that nobody can keep up. Three months before the bubble pops, Jamie cashes out for $2 billion. What ambassadorial appointment should Jamie expect to score?
Donald is fleecing 10,200 desperate people with an overpriced scheme to teach the nuts and bolts of real estate speculation. If 35% of the rubes go for the whole package and waste $27,000 each for a worthless certificate of completion, how many of the remaining rubes have to be suckered into the second level of the fraudulent scheme at $15,200 each for Donald to win the nomination for president of a major political party?
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)Not trying to be difficult. Really. Thought experiment?
What if the questions didn't include Hispanic or apparent African American names? What if they were restricted to, let's say, the top 10 boys' or girls' names for 2015:
Charlotte
Amelia
Ava
Olivia
Cora
Eleanor
Isla
Lucy
Evelyn
Penelope
or
Bennett
Aiden
Sage
Liam
Michael
William
Mason
Jacob
Everett
River
And modify the questions to take out explicit racial and sexist references.
It's still math.
puffy socks
(1,473 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)The person that fabricated this doesn't know what the term "language arts" means. They think it means maths.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)This is fake. This would be a math test not language arts
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,276 posts)WTF is wrong with people? WTF is wrong with those teachers? They shouldn't be allowed to step foot in a classroom ever again.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)raccoon
(31,089 posts)Teachers get into trouble over using 'The L.A. Math Test,' a piece of online humor, in the classroom.
From the test:
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8. Hector knocked up 6 girls in his gang. There are 27 girls in the gang. What percentage of the girls in the gang has Hector knocked up?
http://www.snopes.com/humor/question/mathtest.asp
aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)Why would a Language Arts teacher give a math test?
Then again a racist teacher intent on harassing students needs no logic.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)There has to be more to this story!
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)But I am wondering if this really happened?
There are usually enough examples of bias language in the press, etc, to discuss.
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)..make one up for the 1%ers. Help me out.
"Byron Van Wicke IV fleeces his hedge fund investors out of $22 million. The total value of the hedge fund is $1.8 billion. What percent of the fund did Byron get?"
Or the Pentagon...
"The DoD is going to spend $1.5 Trillion on the F-35. The original cost for each plane was $89 Million. With cost overruns, each plane will now cost $304 million. By what percentage has each plane gone up in cost?"
...lots more areas that math teachers could use for tests.