Slaves used as part of 3rd grade math questions - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: What would you do if your elementary school child came home with a worksheet that had questions such as these:
--“Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?”
--“If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week?”
That actually happened in Norcross, Ga., where parents complained that their third-grade children had come home with worksheets with those questions from Beaver Ridge Elementary School, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
How did that happen?
The newspaper quoted officials in Gwinnett County Public Schools as saying teachers were looking for opportunities to teach history and tried to use third grade math questions in that effort.
The paper quoted district spokeswoman Sloan Roach as saying: “Clearly, they did not do as good of a job as they should have done.”
Clearly.
Parents complained to school district officials, who responded by saying that the principal of the school — where some 60 percent of the students are Hispanic and nearly 30 are black — would help teachers come up with better questions and that there would be more professional development.
