Posted on 11/08/2015 3:53:34 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Eighth-grade students in southwest Florida were asked about prostitutes, pimps and sex abuse on a take-home math test.
They were word problems on an algebra test at Lexington Middle School - and parents are outraged.
The set-up for the questions is the life of the writer Maya Angelou. The questions highlighted parts of Angelou's life that are not only inappropriate for young teenagers, but equally inappropriate in a math class. The questions were sent home with almost 100 honor students.
One of the questions said, "Trying to support her son as a single mother, she (Angelou) worked as a pimp, prostitute, and ______.â€
Parents said their students are not even studying Angelou.
"I'm kind of concerned now. What's going on in schools?" asked Miller.
The school district issued an apology to the parents and students said it would not happen again. The worksheet came from an external teacher resource website, which is a common tool used by the district, however, it was not vetted carefully by the teacher.
As for the co-mingling of math and language arts, the district said this has been done for years to help with reading comprehension.
One mother told Fox4Now that she was shocked when she saw the homework. "I read it and just thought, 'what in the world?' this is so inappropriate for a 13 year-old 8th grader."
A school spokeswoman said the teacher got the homework from an "external teacher resource site."
"The worksheet in question was utilized by Algebra I Honors classes and was chosen by a veteran teacher for its alignment with Florida Standards. While Maya Angelou is a well-known American Author and the facts of the worksheet are historically accurate, the Principal believes they were inappropriate for some students. She has delivered a ParentLink message to 91 homes "sincerely apologizing" for the use of the material and met with the teachers that utilized the worksheet."
The district also says the principal met with teachers and encourages any parents involved who may have any questions to call the school.
No wonder Jeb is barely a blimp in the polls
It’s a PUBLIC SCHOOL, financed and controlled by the government. If some parents feel a need to subject their kids to this punishment, I have LITTLE SYMPATHY for them.
Well, as sarcastic and cynical as I have become just to survive, this is WAY beyond any of my imagination.
Pray Hard.
Not only is it time to shut down common core, it is time to shut down many of these “colleges of education”.
What the hell do these questions have to do with math? That’s the question I would have asked even as an eighth grader. I would have of course been immediately labeled as a troublemaker and taken out by SWAT.
Good Lord, talk about over the top political indoctrination and pandering. Public schools are SICK.
Good morning, ma'am. It's nice of you to join us.
Six inner city families divided by two social workers equals how many people on welfare?Did you remember to carry the bum?
Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!!
NO EXCUSE for this. No excuse. Typically liberal and what is always on their minds. Home schooling looks better and better, but what about the students who are affected by things like this.
Future eloi — and victims of their teachers’
and goverment-sponsored pedophilia.
Slightly off topic but I never could quite figure out what Maya Angelou was talking about.
Her success baffles me.
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Math is not a series of assumptions. It is an exact science. In properly formatted math, nothing needs to be assumed. If this is "Common Core Math" it needs to be eliminated.
In my first semester of Calculus, I remember to be terribly frustrated by the first statement of every example. It was: "Let x be a function of y and z." It would be followed by an equation relating x, y, and z (or what ever the variables in the statement were). I could understand each of the words in the opening sentence, but I didn't have a clue what they meant. I gave up asking the professor, because he couldn't help me understand either.
After months of frustration, it finally dawned on me that the author was simply stating the obvious: An equation relating x, y, and z could be written so it is not necessary to assume that it can be written. He then proceeded to write it. I did not need to assume anything. x was, indeed, a function of y and z.
It would equally appropriate to end each question in the test with the statement: "solve for x and y, in the form (x,y).
This may not be for real, although it wouldn’t totally shock me if it was.
...it looks like the sort of thing that get passed around by e-mail.
Our Oklahoma State Superintendent of Schools told me, nose to nose, when she was running, she had no problem with Common Core.
The trees, the rocks, hello to the stream.
Personally I think she got hold of some GOOD ganja.
Gotta be culturally relevant.
Test can’t be too white.
....I never could quite figure out...Maya Angelou...
Her success baffles me...
I think the same way about President Zer0.
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