Posted on 06/03/2016 5:34:12 AM PDT by Zakeet
No, this is not from The Onion.
In an apparent attempt to make math more relevant to the young people of Alabama, a teacher at Burns Middle School in Mobile, required eighth-graders to take a math quiz that drew complaints from parents about inappropriate themes and racist overtones.
As The Washington Post reports, nearly 900 students are enrolled at Burns Middle School, about 50 percent of them black and 40 percent white, according to state data. Forty-three percent qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
"Dwayne pimps 3 ho’s," reads one question on the quiz given to students at Burns Middle School in Mobile, Ala. "If the price is $85 per trick, how many tricks per day must each ho turn to support Dwayne's $800 per day crack habit?"Other questions refer to stolen cars, murder-for-hire, cocaine deals and drive-by shootings.
"Tyrone knocked up four girls in the gang," the quiz says. "There are 20 girls in the gang. What is the exact percentage of girls that Tyrone knocked up?"
Rena Philips, a spokeswoman for Mobile County Public School System, said a parent raised concerns about the assignment Tuesday and the school immediately launched an investigation and placed the teacher on administrative leave. Philips declined to identify the teacher or offer more details, citing privacy concerns related to personnel matters.
"We regret that this happened, especially so close to the end of the school year," Philips said. "We have 7,500 employees in Mobile County public schools, and the vast majority of them are doing phenomenal work in our classrooms."
The teacher has been suspended.
One of the students photographed the quiz, which is reportedly an internet meme dating back to the 1990s...
It's not clear why the Mobile teacher decided to hand it out Friday, just a few days before school let out.
"I couldn’t believe it," one student's mother exclaimed, "she told them that it wasn’t a joke, and they had to complete it, and turn it in."
Of course, we assume the teacher that has been put on administrative leave will still receive full pay and pension...
After seeing this quiz, I quit my job and got three ho’s and boosted some Corvettes.
BTW, I wonder how many 8th graders knew that 15 Mph is 1/4 of 88 feet per second — a “constant" from beginning physics… ‘-)
Words fail me.
got an incomplete- would have walked out
I definitely “D/F”d the test, but because I don’t know all the street terms and costs. But I was laughing so hard, I couldn’t get out of my seat.
The teacher is guilty of absolutely nothing at all except following orders a little too closely for the comfort of the incubators and sperm donors (I refuse to call them parents) of the unhygienic, violence-prone and mentally-stunted ghetto brats with the pedigrees of stray dogs that she has to try and teach on a daily basis.
The wording of this quiz is VASTLY more relevant than either the 1970’s “Dick and Jane” white-bread stuff that had me rolling my eyes as a kid (and I’m a WASP myself) or the perfectly neutral pap that was obviously excreted from a don’t-offend-anyone committee.
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