Big booties can come in handy
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Posted on 11/14/2014 7:37:03 AM PST by Sam's Army
A Charlotte mother is expressing concern after a class assignment she considers offense was given to high school students, some say it has racial undertones.
“I was completely stunned,” the mother said. “This is not appropriate language at all for the children in the school.”
The question was from a test on genetics.
"LaShamanda has a heterozygous big bootie, the dominant trait. Her man Fontavius has a small bootie which is recessive. They get married and have a baby named LaPrincess," the biology assignment prompts students.
The assignment then continues to ask "What is the probability that LaPrincess will inherit her mama's big bootie?"
The mother says the assignment was given last Monday and she reached out to the teacher for an explanation for the question.
"I am extremely concerned that this type of language is being used and considered expectable [sic] to be issued to students," she said while asking for an explanation.
According to an image of the assignment provided to WBTV, the questions before and after the "bootie" question revolved around "stinky feet" and the height of plants.
The mother showed WBTV an email apology she reportedly received from the teacher "if the question offended you."
"I had asked the students to pick two of the remaining questions on the worksheet and did not necessarily assign that particular one," the teacher said.
She continued, "I apologize if it offended you or your child."
The teacher said the worksheet had been passed down to her by other teachers who have been using it. It was also reportedly part of the "Summer School Biology Notebook Packet" that teachers were given by the school district.
WBTV's Dedrick Russell reached out to the school district to ask about the worksheet. "The worksheet does not appear to be a document created by CMS," the officials said. "The school has taken the worksheet out of circulation and requested its teachers to discontinue using it."
The mother is relieved the question will not be used again.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/11/14/5314339/bootie-problem-at-cms-mom-says.html#storylink=cpy
Your answer is correct but irrelevant. The important matter is how you feeeeeeel about the question. Modern education, you know.
"Don't stereotype us says Lo'Brack'ya-Neesha!"
That didn't help, so they need more money, more black references, etc.
The morons in Congress make money available to non-English speakers, so the local pols make up "Ebonics" to feed at the public trough, limiting the kids' ability to function and advance in a civilized information society.
So now the dumbing down that "they" demanded results in unavoidable parody, and "they" continue to complain and whine.
So first textbooks and assignments were racist becuase they didn’t include enough “ethnic” examples in the word problems. Now that all white names have been removed from word problems it is racist to use the names that are typical of modern blacks? Or is it racist to recognize that black women are capable of prodigious booties? Or could it just be that this mother thinks she has something to gain by being outraged?
Sound like the “ghetto names” made up by the racists here on FR.
Beat me to it.
Marriage?
Hard to believe this came from our enlightened non-racist handlers in the public school system, isn't it?
Is this all part of the new “Common Core”?
Our public education system has turned out a generation of illiterates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRZZpk_9k8E&feature=player_embedded
White privilege is being able to find a keychain in the store with your name on it.
Still, get your children out of the public schools ( government indoctrination centers ) - NOW!!
Or Barack and Michelle. If the shoe fits...
some test writer has a sense of humor
These words just complicate the question, they would first have to figure out WHY would they get married to have a baby, that just makes no sense at all.
Instead of these ridiculous made-up names they should use some good Biblical names, like Parshandatha, Vajezatha, Parmashta, Uzzi, Ishi, Hukok, Bukki, Jibsam or Pispah.
The most outrageous and unbelievable part is the section where they got married.
“What is the statistical probability that LaPrincess will have her own Reality Television Program by the time she is 14? Show all work.”
...as well as her cousin Chlamydia.
Hilarious - this is just taking the demand for racially relevant questions to the extreme.
Perhaps someone supporting the demands can now see how ridiculous it was?
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