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School apologizes for 'disrespectful' 9/11 math problem
WIS-TV ^ | 11.2.17

Posted on 11/03/2017 10:28:46 AM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl

NEWBURYPORT, MA (WFXT/CNN) – Parents in Massachusetts are outraged after their high school students were asked to solve a math problem about 9/11.

A problem asking students to determine how long United Flight 175 was in the air before hitting the World Trade Center appeared on algebra homework at Newburyport High School.

"Thinking about something so sad with everything else going on in the world, I don't think it was the right thing to do,” grandparent Carol Bogard said.

Parents say there’s no excuse for the inappropriate question or how it was worded.

(Excerpt) Read more at wistv.com ...


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No respect.
1 posted on 11/03/2017 10:28:46 AM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Math problem:

5 understandably angry Americans beat the holy Shiite out of a dick-head liberal anti-American disrespectful math teaching jerkwad.

If the crowd grows at 5% per minute how many people will be beating the teacher up after 10 minutes? Extra credit: how long before no more can actually strike a blow? Please show your work.


2 posted on 11/03/2017 10:33:29 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Every Californian who supported "sanctuary state" has blood and ashes on his/her hands)
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To: metmom; Art H

ping


3 posted on 11/03/2017 10:34:37 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

After WWII, grownups did not discuss the war when children were around.


4 posted on 11/03/2017 10:35:28 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl
Maybe this is an example of what radical leftist professors were recently calling for, adding social justice awareness to math.

-PJ

5 posted on 11/03/2017 10:35:43 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

These kids weren’t even around then. They don’t know the horror of that day....and the years since.


6 posted on 11/03/2017 10:37:17 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Who in their right mind...I think I just answered my question


7 posted on 11/03/2017 10:37:47 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

People seem to be easily offended.


8 posted on 11/03/2017 10:38:24 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Who is
A) Sick enough to think up a problem like that
B) Puts pen to paper to write it down
C) Hands it out to their students
while all along the way, no small morsel of conscience pipes up to say “that would be wrong”.


9 posted on 11/03/2017 10:41:00 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The FBI is a taxpayer funded Mafia organization)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Paging Betsy DeVos.


10 posted on 11/03/2017 10:41:01 AM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl
Superintendent Susan Viccaro said in a statement that the assignment was not intended to be disrespectful.

Typical. Gutless admin.

11 posted on 11/03/2017 10:43:37 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The FBI is a taxpayer funded Mafia organization)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Reminds me of the time in 4th grade when we had to solve that math problem about how many bombs actually hit their targets on 12/7/1941 that never happened.


12 posted on 11/03/2017 10:50:10 AM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Superintendent of schools: 978-465-4456


13 posted on 11/03/2017 10:57:07 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Blue House Sue

WELCOME TO FREE REPUBLIC


14 posted on 11/03/2017 10:59:46 AM PDT by easternsky
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

If a commercial airliner flies at 500-580 mph at sea level, how long before the wings come off?


15 posted on 11/03/2017 11:01:42 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hj3e8cKZWiY)
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To: freedumb2003

An alt-right Dodge Charger weighs 4400 pounds.

If the alt-right Charger is moving at 50 feet per second, and strikes 250 pound Heather Heifer:

-what is the peak acceleration on Heather Heifer ?
-how far does Heather Heifer fly through the air ?

assume a perfectly elastic collision


16 posted on 11/03/2017 11:32:47 AM PDT by Reverend Wright (The CBC: Deceiving Canadians since 1936.)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

What was the teacher’s name, “Alia Muhamadaziz”?


17 posted on 11/03/2017 12:00:33 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Sacajaweau

I was three when WWII ended. When I was around five, I remember thinking that Hitler was another name for the devil. Evidently they discussed it enough. LOL

My first real worry was atomic attack, and I think that all came from grade school.


18 posted on 11/03/2017 12:05:26 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Blue House Sue

You won’t last long around here if you think like that, Sue.


19 posted on 11/03/2017 12:07:11 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Controversy over nothing. Get over it. Are some people such frail snowflakes that they can’t be reminded of the murder by 19 muzzies? Or do all good liberals sweep all memories of 9/11 under the rug?

I would not have used that as an example, but it isn’t bad.

Now if they had asked:
If one muzzy can blow up one school bus in 5 minutes, how long would it take for 5 muzzies to blow up 25 buses? Now that would be “offensive.”


20 posted on 11/03/2017 12:11:28 PM PDT by I want the USA back (ItÂ’s Ok To Be White. White Lives Matter. White Guilt is Socially Constructed)
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