01-07-2012, 03:13 PM
"Norcross parents upset by slavery in school math worksheet
A math worksheet for third graders that used examples of slavery in word problems has angered some parents at a Norcross elementary school.
One word problem stated, "Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?" Another said, "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week?”
Such questions can evoke bitter memories in Georgia, where African Americans were enslaved for generations until the Civil War and the elimination of slavery.
"It kind of blew me away,” Christopher Braxton, a parent of a child at Beaver Ridge Elementary School, "I was furious. … Something like this shouldn't be embedded into a kid of the third, fourth, fifth, any grade."
Another Beaver Ridge parent, Terrance Barnett, said, "I’m having to explain to my 8-year-old why slavery or slave or beatings is in a math problem. So that hurts.”
Gwinnett County School District officials said teachers were attempting to incorporate history into math lessons.
Parents said that the school’s principal was collecting the assignments and would shred them so they wouldn’t be circulated."
WTF? hahahahaha
A math worksheet for third graders that used examples of slavery in word problems has angered some parents at a Norcross elementary school.
One word problem stated, "Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?" Another said, "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week?”
Such questions can evoke bitter memories in Georgia, where African Americans were enslaved for generations until the Civil War and the elimination of slavery.
"It kind of blew me away,” Christopher Braxton, a parent of a child at Beaver Ridge Elementary School, "I was furious. … Something like this shouldn't be embedded into a kid of the third, fourth, fifth, any grade."
Another Beaver Ridge parent, Terrance Barnett, said, "I’m having to explain to my 8-year-old why slavery or slave or beatings is in a math problem. So that hurts.”
Gwinnett County School District officials said teachers were attempting to incorporate history into math lessons.
Parents said that the school’s principal was collecting the assignments and would shred them so they wouldn’t be circulated."
WTF? hahahahaha