This is usually the last thing I see before I'm turned into the household chew-toy! LMAO!
Posted on 11/19/2009 5:32:28 AM PST by SolidWood
When she was helping her son with his homework Saturday night, a Central Bucks mother noticed something that surprised and shocked her.
"I couldn't understand what I was looking at," said the woman, whose identity the newspaper has agreed not to disclose.
It was a work sheet called "Solving Equations using Multiplication and Division!" and it featured a photo of a black man wearing a straw hat, shirt and suspenders, with his mostly toothless mouth wide open. As if to underscore the man's stupidity, at the bottom of the picture was written, "No wai!!!"
The mother learned that her son, the only black student in his eighth-grade pre-algebra class at Lenape Middle School, was teased by another student when the assignment was distributed.
"One of the kids in the classroom turned around and said, 'Is that your father?' " she said.
"We are highly insulted and offended. We sent him to school to learn pre-algebra. He should be protected from this stuff, not have it thrown in his face...He gets enough (racial slurs) and negativity from the kids. To have the teacher encourage it?"
[...]
The boy's mother said she spent much of the weekend angry and in tears.
"It's very stressful to be an African-American in the community and you want to fit in and you want to embrace all of the things Central Bucks offers you," she said. "Who's protecting us here?"
Monday night, after meeting with the boy's family, NAACP Bucks County President John Jordan issued a written statement denouncing the events.
[...]
She plans to keep her son home from school until she feels as though it's safe to send him again.
(Excerpt) Read more at phillyburbs.com ...
Sheer stupidity because we've been conditioned to think about race all the time. Hey, maybe seniors should file charges too... the guy looks old enough for AARP.
Don't dis my momma, rhombus!
Yes it would, but we aren't quite there yet.
It’s sheer stupidity because it is a predictable outcome. If you put something like that out you can’t be surprised when someone throws the race card. Not in today’s PC society. I understand what you are saying, but common sense says that if you put out a pic that has even the slightest chance of offending some group, not matter which group it is, you get what you ask for.
I’m with you. That is extremely offensive. It would be offensive no matter the gender or skin color of the person in the photo. And what’s with that stupid caption?
Apparently somebody already did, as documented a few posts above yours.
Curran reported, through Smith, that he found the image by doing a Google Images search for the phrase "multiply and divide."The pic may have nothing to do with "algegra", but it did apparently come up under a google search on "multiply and divide" (for whatever reason), and the teacher found the "No Wai" phrase amusing since it is a phrase his students use. To assume and assert that the teacher's purpose and intent in using the pic was to offend without even the benefit of looking into the background of the teacher and students demonstrates a tendency to jump to conclusions and make accusations completely devoid of any factual basis to support them.Sure enough, th 4th page of GOogle i mages sends you here - about 12 or so posts down. "I chose it because it said 'no way,' which is a comment my students make when I require them to show each calculation," he wrote in an e-mail. "I had no idea that I might offend anyone. I am very sorry for any distress that this has caused my students and the community."
You aren't a reporter for the drive-by media, are you?
If all students were black, and there was one white student, and the picture was of a white toothless man, I would say the teacher intended to send a message to the black students and one message to the single white student. Yes, it would be racist.
I really don’t understand what the person who put the picture on the sheet hoped to accomplish? It’s too out of place to be funny. I can understand the mother’s feelings of racism. I’d be irate if I saw a similar picture of an Eastern Kentucky/Southern/”redneck” person. Just my two cents worth.
This is usually the last thing I see before I'm turned into the household chew-toy! LMAO!
It’s not racist, and was most likely put on the cover to represent the teenage mind in relation to things like schoolwork and homework. In other words, an over-dramatized facial expression actually meant to poke fun at all students, not just students of a particular race.
Now, that being said, appearances can carry weight, especially if misinterpreted, so I can see why this particular picture, as opposed to using say a goofy kid of any race doing the same thing, was a poor choice...
If that’s really from her son’s work sheet, it is so bad I gotta wonder if this is a set up.
This is the ugliest thing I have ever ever seen in or out of a school setting.
She can live anywhere she wants. She is an American. Let the teacher move to someone else’s neighborhood. I am not offering my area. Is anyone else?
good thing the lab’s only playing
Wow. Obnoxious. I have little sympathy for the PC police and race whiners, but they got it right on this one — this is racist garbage. Whose genius idea was this?
SnakeDoc
I have to agree... That’s Racist!
Get it out of the book and move on to trig.
I gotta agree with you.
All apologies. Posting from phone, even proofreading, i didn’t pick up on the typo.
furthermore, i do agree that the image doesn’t belong on a test. but the word “inappropriate” was glossed over, and “racist” was easily chosen.
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