Middle School Teacher Gives Math Test About *Pimps Hos And Drug Deals*
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Do by our think this test was appropriate for middle schoolers?
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Officials at a Mobile, Alabama middle school have disciplined a teacher for giving students a quiz containing highly questionable subject matter that parents are calling “racist” and “offensive.”This test appears to be somewhat over the top and I really don't see the point this teacher was trying to make in testing middle school students. Apparently similar tests were given in other states around the country.
“My son, he took a picture of it in class and he texted it to me,” parent Erica Hall told Mobile’s WALA‑TV. “I couldn’t believe it.”
According to the station, the 10-question math quiz was given to eighth-grade students in a language arts class at Burns Middle School. The test, which contains many drug and gang references, appears to have been copied from a fake quiz that is widely available online. Questions included:
Ramon has an AK-47 with a 30-round clip. He usually misses 6 out of every 10 shots and he uses 13 rounds per drive-by shooting. How many drive-by shootings can Ramon attempt before he has to steal enough ammunition and reload?
Leroy has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an 8 ball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, what is the street value of the rest of his hold?
Dwayne pimps 3 ho’s. If the price is $85 per trick, how many tricks per day must each ho turn to support Dwayne’s $500 per day crack habit?
Tyrone knocked up 4 girls in his gang. There are 20 girls in the gang. What percentage of the girls in the gang has Tyrone knocked up?
A complete list of the questions can be found at the WALA‑TV website.
Neither school officials nor parents were amused by the test.
“I’m shocked. I don’t think it’s appropriate at all,” parent Kellie Lee told WALA‑TV.
In a brief statement released to the newspaper Lagniappe on Tuesday, Mobile County Public School Superintendent Martha Peek said she regretted that the incident occurred “during the last few days of school.”
Do by our think this test was appropriate for middle schoolers?
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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I'd be interested to knwo what teh relationship was like between this particular class of students with the teacher was like to begin with. What kinds of topics were discussed throughout the year etc.
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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My guess is there is a larger context in the classroom that none of us know, and the kid who went home to tell mommy didn't share that contextual part, probably because he just didn't get it. I see it happen all the time. In today's climate, you can't say or do anything even remotely unorthodox in the classroom without some outraged parent calling to demand your head on the block. Regardless of her intent, this teacher should have predicted it was going to backfire, unless she's young and inexperienced and hasn't been burned yet.
If she said, "Oh, I'm a racist, and I think the kids need to learn how to calculate the price of drugs and whores because I know deep down that's all they will amount to," then I would take it up with her principal, who I'm sure would hold her accountable, privately. In that case, it's a personnel matter involving a private individual, and I would respect that.
If she said, "I was teaching a lesson on racist and sexist language found in viral memes on the Internet because I'm concerned that my students don't understand how damaging to our culture these jokes are," I would be like, "Oh, okay, thank you for teaching my child to think critically." Then I would move along.
What I would *not* do is contact the media and turn the woman into the next whipping post for public education. The parents clearly have a bigger agenda.
And yes, seriously. I work with 13 and 14 year olds. Trust me, they are not innocent. This year, in my group alone, I've had a sexting incident involving 30 students, a boy showing porn to girls in the back of class, two kids separately using social media to threaten to shoot someone else, multiple kids with drug abuse problems . . . Please. "Oh, no, the teacher might expose my child to something unwholesome." Get your heads out of the sand, parents.
If you substituted the names Susie and John in this case, I would still think it's hilarious to make math problems out of drug deals and tricks. I just don't go through life fighting every single injustice on the planet. It works for me to laugh at humanity rather than cry about the countless depressing things I can't control. Call it a survival mechanism.
And don't overlook the part where I said the teacher was stupid. She should have known that regardless of her intent, there would be a backlash. I do feel bad for her, that she would be so dumb. Overall, though, it's just not the end of the world. It's the end of her teaching career, maybe, but we don't have to act like the sky is falling every time someone makes a mistake. Is there no room for redemption?
university class? maybe. grade 8 class? brutal.
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