Slavery A part of Georgia School's Math Test

[Gatorubet]

Hey Woof....why don't they use "Freemen" like everybody else.

http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/norcross-parents-upset-by-1292851.html?cxtype=rss_news_81960

"Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?"
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And:

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


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Y'all often accuse me of exaggerating when I talk about current levels of.....racial sensitivity......in the South. What can I say?

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[MililaniBuckeye]

...or they could just use the term "workers" or "pickers". Oh wait...pickers only works for math problems involving cotton.

 

[Buckeye Maniac]

If they wanted to cover Civil War history, they should have asked: ''If Sherman razes 15 miles every day, how many miles will he have razed when he reaches the sea?''

 

[Gatorubet]

If they wanted to cover Civil War history, they should have asked: ''If Sherman razes 15 miles every day, how many miles will he have razed when he reaches the sea?''

Good point. But then, they'd call it The War Between the States History.

 

[smitty03]

I was listening to this story on the radio and I do believe there was also a cotton picking question on the homework. Something along the lines of "If there are 5 baskets of cotton that weigh 6 pounds each, how much cotton is there total?"

Not sure what this teacher was thinking while she created this assignment. Just another dumb teacher giving the teaching profession a bad name.

 

[buxfan4life]

Good point. But then, they'd call it The War Between the States History.

I thought it was The War of Northern Aggression?

 

[Gatorubet]

Not sure what this teacher was thinking while she created this assignment. Just another dumb teacher giving the teaching profession a bad name.

Supposedly they were going for some interdisciplinary thing, using history and other subjects in the math problems to help create a cross-curriculum environment...

....which is why "how many beating a week" is relevant, I guess.

 

[Gatorubet]

I thought it was The War of Northern Aggression?

Moving from Iowa to Florida in the 1960s, I was reminded by my new, pretty, Southern Belle of a teacher on the correct terminology. WBTS it was.


Plus, she'd read a passage from the Bible to start us off every morning. I thought to myself, "Ubet, you're not in Sioux City anymore..."

 

[buxfan4life]

Moving from Iowa to Florida in the 1960s, I was reminded by my new, pretty, Southern Belle of a teacher on the correct terminology. WBTS it was.

I read the above and thought this: If she was a hot southern belle teacher, I would have called it anything she wanted.

Plus, she'd read a passage from the Bible to start us off every morning. I thought to myself, "Ubet, you're not in Sioux City anymore..."

Then I read this and I thought: Never mind.

 

[localyokel]

School Principal Roach:

“It was just a poorly written question,” Roach said.

Sooo...would I be correct in concluding that the present thinking down South is that the whole 13th Amendment thingy is sort of like our Buckeyes' 2012 bowl ban...just a temporary inconvenience to endure before resuming business as usual?

 

[Bucklion]

School Principal Roach:

Sooo...would I be correct in concluding that the present thinking down South is that the whole 13th Amendment thingy is sort of like our Buckeyes' 2012 bowl ban...just a temporary inconvenience to endure before resuming business as usual?

Just the one? Apparently he missed this one, also from the same test:

?If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week??

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2012/01/09/georgia-school-math-assignment-references-slavery-beatings/

 

[BigWoof31]

Supposedly they were going for some interdisciplinary thing, using history and other subjects in the math problems to help create a cross-curriculum environment...

....which is why "how many beating a week" is relevant, I guess.

This was my first thought too. I remember teachers in my Grade School using characters from Chapter Books in Math Problems. When you're solving word problems about the Indian in the Cupboard or Sideways Stories from wayside school - it makes homework much more fun!

The teachers who crafted these questions are just lazy idiots. Release them for incompetence, not racism.

 

[MaxBuck]

Release them for incompetence, not racism.

I'm sorry, but dismissal for incompetence is disallowed by the union contract.

 

[RugbyBuck]

I'm surprised that they didn't use history for lessons in fractions:

If a slave is worth 3/5ths of a human being and there are 500,000 slaves in Georgia...

 

[Gatorubet]

I'm surprised that they didn't use history for lessons in fractions:

If a slave is worth 3/5ths of a human being and there are 500,000 slaves in Georgia...

Well, that whole 3/5ths thing was a Yankee idea, so...no.