Atlanta-area teachers work slavery into math problems

[imjustagirl]

Congrats, Beaver Ridge teachers. You're ridiculous.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/parents-outraged-after-homework-assignment-refers-/nGHHr/

The question was a word problem that said, "Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?"

Another math problem said, "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?"

Edited the thread title since it's actually Norcross, north of Atlanta, rather than Atlanta proper.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Re: Atlanta teachers work slavery into math problems

Holy ****. That's insane.

 

[MileHigh]

Re: Atlanta teachers work slavery into math problems

Congrats, Beaver Ridge teachers. You're ridiculous.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/parents-outraged-after-homework-assignment-refers-/nGHHr/

The question was a word problem that said, "Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?"

Another math problem said, "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?"

1. 7
2. 14.

 

[imjustagirl]

Re: Atlanta teachers work slavery into math problems

Congrats, Beaver Ridge teachers. You're ridiculous.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/parents-outraged-after-homework-assignment-refers-/nGHHr/

The question was a word problem that said, "Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?"

Another math problem said, "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?"

1. 7
2. 14.

It's third-grade math!

 

[Care Bear]

Congrats, Beaver Ridge teachers. You're ridiculous.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/parents-outraged-after-homework-
assignment-refers-/nGHHr/

The question was a word problem that said, "Each tree had 56
oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?"

Another math problem said, "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?"

1. 7
2. 14.

Thank you for that. I laughed my ass off.

 

[Starman]

I think the "outrage" would be explained a lot more fully with some more background information on the teachers, students and parents.

It's stupid no matter who does it, but depending on some of those factors, it could be really REALLY stupid.

 

[spikechiquet]

That said, is this 2012 or 1862?

Hey, are we ignoring the highly-competitive market of white-slave trade in this day and age?

 

[Versatile]

Congrats, Beaver Ridge teachers. You're ridiculous.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/parents-outraged-after-homework-assignment-refers-/nGHHr/

The question was a word problem that said, "Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?"

Another math problem said, "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?"

1. 7
2. 14.

It's third-grade math!

Not for Frederick.

 

[imjustagirl]

I think the "outrage" would be explained a lot more fully with some more background information on the teachers, students and parents.

It's stupid no matter who does it, but depending on some of those factors, it could be really REALLY stupid.

http://www.greatschools.org/georgia/norcross/1151-Beaver-Ridge-Elementary-School/

The letter on the home page of the school appears in English and Spanish: http://www.teacherweb.com/ga/beaverRidgeEs/homepage/sdhp1.aspx

And here's info on Norcross itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norcross,_Georgia

I haven't spent any time up there, so I can't really speak to it.

 

[User 1019]

Any teacher without the situational awareness to realize this isn't appropriate is a teacher who needs to find another profession.

 

[joe_schmoe]

Yeah. They should have updated it to the 21st century.

If Lil' Wayne has 56 crack pipes, how many can he smoke each day if he wants to smoke them all in a week?
If Paris Hilton puts out 3 sex tapes a day, how much will she have put out at the end of January?

 

[93Devil]

Looking at that page, I don't think that was produced at the school level. It might have come from the SBO.

Plus, this is bull****. There is no way a building admin can review every question created by teachers. Not enough hours in the day.

Roach said there is a process in place to review questions before they are handed out to students, which didn't happen here.

 

[MileHigh]

Any teacher without the situational awareness to realize this isn't appropriate is a teacher who needs to find another profession.

Teach to the test.

 

[Drip]

Norcross is a great suburb. The situation at Beaver Ridge is more damning on the teachers and administrators. I do question whether the school board knew anything about what was going on. There's no doubt some sensitivity training is in order.
Sad that this is happening in 2012.

 

[playthrough]

I was told there would be no math.

 

[Bob Cook]

If one slave ship leaving Africa at 9:30 is going 25 mph, and one ship leaving Charleston at 11:15 to get more slaves is going 17 mph, when would they cross paths?

 

[JayFarrar]

I'm not saying that this is the case but in my former confederate state and others, including Georgia, have had efforts to incorporate civil war history since the school year was the 150 anniversary of it's start.

That's not an excuse but it sounds like from reading the story that school was mixing up aspects of civics with math.

So if one class was learning about slavery, it would be reinforced in another, unrelated, class.

If that was the case would people still be outraged?

 

[buckweaver]

I'm not saying that this is the case but in my former confederate state and others, including Georgia, have had efforts to incorporate civil war history since the school year was the 150 anniversary of it's start.

That's not an excuse but it sounds like from reading the story that school was mixing up aspects of civics with math.

So if one class was learning about slavery, it would be reinforced in another, unrelated, class.

If that was the case would people still be outraged?

According to the story, that IS the case.

But it still doesn't make those questions appropriate.

 

[playthrough]

Norcross is a great suburb. The situation at Beaver Ridge is more damning on the teachers and administrators. I do question whether the school board knew anything about what was going on. There's no doubt some sensitivity training is in order.
Sad that this is happening in 2012.

Have you covered the average school board? It's a miracle if they know most of their schools' names.

 

[BigRed]

Any teacher without the situational awareness to realize this isn't appropriate is a teacher who needs to find another profession.

Teach to the test.

Someone's watched Season 4 of The Wire.