Posted on 11/03/2017 7:59:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin
What was supposed to be just another problem to solve for a freshman math class has turned into a controversy after a teacher used the Sept. 11 attacks as a word problem on a test.
CBS Boston reports the Newburyport High School teacher used specifics from the terrorist attacks, down to the flight number, asking students to calculate how long United Airlines Flight 175 was in the air before it hit the World Trade Center.
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While some were certainly offended by this math problem, some parents and students accept the teacher's apology. "She's a nice woman. I think she just made an honest mistake," said senior Landyn Murphy.
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Follow-up question: How long after the second plane hit, did the muslims in Jersey City start dancing and passing candy out to their children?
This is like teaching Trig by asking to find the size of an angle from a bomb released from a Japanese plane on December 7th.
I’m not going to go crazy over this, but good lord! Woman make the questions more generic!
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Trick question...they started passing out candy before the first plane hit.
I would not have made an issue out of this. I would consider the action a judgement that is slightly offensive to some, and innocuous to others.
Is the objection that it bruises our frail sensitivities? or that some leftist wants all memory of the brutal muzzy attack on humans thrown into the dustbin of history?
Guess you didn’t know anyone who died on 9/11. I did, a colleague who was on Flight 95. The teacher lacks maturity and common sense. Not unusual these days.
I think they wanted the angle, one jap said “it reaned to the reft.”
KEEP PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS AWAY FROM CHILDREN
Signed, the liberal lynch mob
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