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Update: Teacher Resigns Over Offensive Math Questions

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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January 21, 2012
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| Discussion, Education, Enough Said!, Newsworthy, Parenting, Race Relations, Racism, School, What's Hot

Remember when I told you about the teacher who used offensive references to slavery in her math test questions? Well we’ve now learned that she has resigned. Daily Mail: An Atlanta elementary school teacher has resigned amid a growing furore over mathematics homework that involved questions concerning slavery. The third-grade maths problems – which featured […]

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GA School Uses “Slavery Questions” On Test

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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January 10, 2012
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Some Georgia parents are furious over math test questions posed to  students at Beaver Ridge Elementary school. Students were issued a test with the following questions: “Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?” and “If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings […]

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