Cracked out 3rd grade teacher fired for assigning retarded math problems WTF???

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WTF at some of the examples of math problems this teacher be assigning??? Cold & ghetto but that sh!t had me weak I gotta tell ya... Some shit a lil punk kid would do whenever he gets bored from his math homework & felt like he wanna cross em out & make up his own using his tweeked-out imagination but again LMAO!!!!!! at this...

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho...nt-math-problems-third-graders-201910368.html



A Washington, D.C., charter school teacher has been fired after it was discovered the teacher had assigned third-grade students a number of math problems framed around violent and illegal scenarios.

At first, the unnamed teacher at the Trinidad Center City School claimed he had been ordered to assign the problems, but it was quickly discovered that the teacher had actually downloaded them from a free homeschooling website called "HomeschoolingParadise.com."

"I was absolutely distressed," Dr. Beverley Wheeler, the CEO of Center City PCS, which oversees Trinidad, told WUSA9. "It doesn't follow anything we do. We are about character, excellence and service and I found them to be violent and racist."

Even more baffling, other parents at the school say the teacher in question is a minister.

[Parents outraged after homework references slavery, beatings]

I went to the Homeschooling Paradise website and took a look at the third-grade homeschooling "Worksheets" curriculum. To start, the site's own promotional slogan uses oddly harsh (and racially problematic) language, asking:

"Want your kids to sharpen their mathematical skills to a razor's edge? There is nothing better than grinding their neurons on Singapore math." You can read more about the Singapore math system here.

Here are some of the suggested math problems from the site. And to be clear, I'm not cherry-picking; almost any question picked at random will reflect the concerns expressed by Dr. Wheeler:

"I was sleeping one night when a hungry vampire sucked 3652 liters of blood from me and 1865 liters of blood from my little brother. How much blood did the hungry vampire drink that night?"

Another reads:

"I took a nap in a bog one day and woke up screaming. 3796 leeches, 2910 fleas and 1044 vampire bats were stuck to my bald head drinking my blood in ecstasy. How many bloodthirsty bloodsuckers were dining on my head?"

And check out this incredibly morbid problem:

"John's father gave him 1359 marbles on his birthday. John swallowed 585 marbles and died. 9 of John's friends came for his funeral the next day. John's grieving father gave the remaining marbles to John's friends in equal numbers. How many marbles did each friend get?"

Last I checked, most kids are warned against indulging in tobacco products. Nonetheless, Homeschooling Paradise offers this equation for children to ponder:

"John, Jack and Jim lit up their pipes after dinner and began blowing smoke rings. By the time they were finished, they had blown a total of 6437 smoke rings. If John blew 52 smoke rings and Jack blew 3896 smoke rings, how many smoke rings did Jim blow?"





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Orc • Little Rock, Arkansas • 16 hrs ago
W x T x F Squared???
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Rodman • 9 hrs ago
I would be pisssed if i was one of those students, those are clearly 4th grade questions.
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Kyle • St Marys, Pennsylvania • 16 hrs ago
Think this is bad, they should put a microphone on a kid in a lunch room/bus ride conversation
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ed • 18 hrs ago
3796 leeches, 2910 fleas and 1044 vampire bats were stuck to my bald head
How big was this guys head?
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Andrew • Dallas, Texas • 20 hrs ago
That's just stupid. A human doesn't even have that many liters of blood in them.
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DennisW • Jersey City, New Jersey • 20 hrs ago
Who else is Happy Yahoo Decided to fix the Comments section which are the best part of there articles
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Alia • 16 hrs ago
If he would have given this to high school students, he'd have the highest scores from his class.
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Kyle • St Marys, Pennsylvania • 16 hrs ago
5,517Liters, 7,750blood thirsty-bloodsuckers, 86 Marbles a friend, and 2,489 smoke rings.
Pretty easy. Wait till the kids get into fractions!
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John • Port Murray, New Jersey • 20 hrs ago
I think the real problem with these assignments is the numbers are absolutely nonsensical. 1044 vampire bats attached to a single head? Come on now, really.
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ed • 19 hrs ago
If John hadn't lit up his pipe...he wouldn't have eaten all those marbles
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Jordan • Moraga, California • 16 hrs ago
"I took a nap in a bog one day and woke up screaming. 3796 leeches, 2910 fleas and 1044 vampire bats were stuck to my bald head drinking my blood in ecstasy. How many bloodthirsty bloodsuckers were dining on my head?"

How do you have time to count these bloodsuckers on your head?
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Bonnie • Doylestown, Pennsylvania • 17 hrs ago
when I think back to all the crap I learned in high school
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badcat303 • Peoria, Illinois • 17 hrs ago
math?? how about teaching biology, one human at most has 5 liters of blood
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Jeffrey • Sacramento, California • 20 hrs ago
COMMENTS ARE BACK!! YEAH! :)
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Mare • Providence, Rhode Island • 20 hrs ago
They sound like they were written by Lemony Snicket.
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Rae • 17 hrs ago
i'm sorry, but i lol'd pretty damn hard reading those.
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Barbara • Charlotte, North Carolina • 20 hrs ago
Those are stupid, but c'mon, how many of the parents are letting these kids play call of duty and watch Twilight and True Blood. So really?
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alisha n • Quincy, Massachusetts • 7 hrs ago
Singapore Math is an actual method of teaching math, you can find workbooks at any bookstore. Nothing racial about it.
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Austin • 20 hrs ago
what happened to simple questions like lucy had a dozen muffins, she gave 4 to jim, how many did she have left?
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RandallN • Chicago, Illinois • 15 hrs ago
Want to involve the kids and teach them a little more? Here's one of mine:

"Billy wants a $60 video game for his birthday. Billy's dad has a job that pays $8 an hour. If Billy's dad only brings home 75% of what he earns, how many hours will he have to work to buy Billy the video game?"... More
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it's hard to get the attention of youngsters these days. you gotta try new and different shit to see what works. shame on the motherfuckers that fired the teacher for actually giving a fuck about the students, and trying to make shit happen.
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High School Math Proficiency Exam


Name:__________________________
Gang:__________________________

1. Johnny has an AK-47 with an 80-round clip. If he misses 6 out of 10 shots and shoots 13 times at each drive-by shooting, how many drive-by shootings can he attempt before he has to reload?

2. Jose has 2 ounces of cocaine and he sells an 8-ball to Jackson for $320 and 2 grams to Billy for $85 per gram. What is the street value of the balance of the cocaine if he doesn't cut it?

3. Rufus is pimping for three girls. If the price is $65 for each trick, how many tricks will each girl have to turn so Rufus can pay for his $800-per-day crack habit?

4. Jarone want to cut his 1/2 pound of heroin to make 20% more profit. How many ounces of cut will he need?

5. Willie gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy, and $100 for a 4X4. If he has stolen 2 BMWs, 3 4X4s, how many Chevies will he have to steal to make $800?

6. Raoul is in prison for 6 years for murder. He got $10,000 for the hit. If his common law wife is spending $100 per month, how much money will be left when he gets out of prison and how many years will he get for killing the bitch that spent his money?

7. If the average spray can covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 3 square feet, how many letters can a tagger spray with 3 cans of paint?

8. Hector knocked up 6 girls in his gang. There are 27 girls in the gang. What percentage of the girls in the gang has Hector knocked up?

9. Thelma can cook dinner for her 16 children for $7.50 per night. She gets $234 a month welfare for each child. If her $325 per month rent goes up 15%, how many more children should she have to keep up with her expenses?

10. Salvador was arrested for dealing crack and his bail was set at $25,000. If he pays a bail bondsman 12% and returns to Mexico, how much money will he lose by jumping bail?

Origins: The Internet humor piece variously entitled "The L.A. Math Proficiency Test" or "The City of Los Angeles High School Math Proficiency Exam" has been part of online lore since at least 1993, and others recall seeing photocopied versions of it as far back
as the mid-1980s. Over time it has gone through some changes, notably the inclusion of questions 9 and 10 (which were not part of the earlier versions). Its humor is obvious: it simultaneously deplores the state of education in large urban centers and furthers the myth that teens from such regions are thoroughly steeped in a drugs, guns, gangs, and promiscuity culture by asserting that even the math questions directed towards them have to be framed in that context to be relevant to their lives. None of the Norman Rockwellian "Johnny has three apples; if he sells two to Ben, then Becky gives him five, how many does he now have?" innocence appears here — even the test's header furthers the jape by asking for the student's name and gang affiliation, presenting the casual presumption that all the high schoolers being given the test are gang members.

Obvious humor or not, the "test" has landed a number of educators into trouble over the years. The Canadian National Post reported that a teacher at the Juniper School in Thompson, Manitoba, was suspended from her duties in June 2002 for distributing this test to students:
A Manitoba school district has barred a Grade 8 instructor from classroom teaching for a year after she distributed a math quiz that used pimps and cocaine trafficking to illustrate questions of arithmetic.

The 10-question quiz asked how much Willie would make for stealing a number of luxury cars, the distance a thief could travel on a stolen skateboard before he gets "whacked," and how many "tricks" a day three prostitutes must turn to support their pimp Rufus's cocaine habit.

The School District of Mystery Lake in Thompson, Man., suspended the veteran Juniper School teacher on June 5, two days after irate parents brought the "joke" test to the district's attention. This week the district disciplined her further by assigning her to non-classroom teaching until June, 2003. The teacher has not been identified.

"I don't know where she got the idea to give this to kids. We were outraged," one student's father, who asked not to be identified, told The Winnipeg Sun. The father saw the "Juniper School Math Proficiency Exam" after his young son brought his copy home from school.
(Diana Hiscock, general manager of the Thompson Citizen, said that the controversial quiz wasn't given out as an official school assignment or test: "The teacher gave it to a few of her grade 8 students to read as a fun thing. They took it home, and one of the parents saw it and complained to the school board.")

In 2007, Will Klundt, a teacher at Moriarty High School in Moriarty, New Mexico, incorporated the following question into the final exam he administered to his fall semester algebra freshman class:
Smoky J. sells meth. Smoky's source says he has to sell a G's worth of meth by the end of the month. If Smoky sold $240 the first week and $532 the second week, how much money must Smoky make if he wants to avoid the beat down from his connection?
Wayne Marshall, the school's principal, declined to discuss whether any disciplinary action will be taken against the teacher.

In 2008, a Barrie, Ontario, police officer was suspended from duty for forwarding a version of the "L.A. Math Test" to other officers via e-mail:
A Barrie police inspector in charge of professional standards has been relieved of his duties after sending an e-mail containing racially inappropriate material to fellow officers.

James Farrell, a 30-year police veteran, admitted to forwarding the inappropriate message to officers under his command.

The offensive e-mail with the subject line "Afrocentric MATH for Toronto's new black only school" was initially addressed to three officers and the entire street crime unit. It was then forwarded and passed along within the organization eventually coming to light when an officer contacted The Toronto Star.

The message resembles a school math test with 10 "problems" based on firearms use, drug deals, pimping, theft and other criminal offences.
Those named in these later examples are far from the first persons to have been disciplined for distributing the "L.A. Math Test." In 1997, six teachers at the Elsie Robertson High School in Lancaster, Texas, and another at the Norte Vista High School in Riverside, California, were suspended for doing the same thing. Likewise, in 1994, a Chicago elementary school teacher who gave a similar test was suspended for thirty days without pay and then resigned. Also in 1994, an Indiana high school teacher who gave the test apologized but was suspended anyway. And in 1993, a similar test was printed on phony school letterhead and passed around at workplaces in Redwood City, California.

Barbara "the prime suspects of Miss Jean Brodie" Mikkelson

Last updated: 18 February 2008

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Acosta, Mark. "Parents Want Answers Over Math Exam's Dark Content."
The [Riverside] Press-Enterprise. 9 July 1997 (p. A1).

Blenkhorn, Leigh. "Barrie Police Inspector Suspended Over E-Mail."
The Toronto Star. 15 February 2008.

Hahn, Beth. "Teacher Flunks Humor Exam; Question on Meth Has Parent Angry."
Albuquerque Journal. 8 February 2007 (p. A1).

Hayes, Jackson. "Barrie Police Want Probe of Racist Email."
The Toronto Star. 15 February 2008.

Nelson, Odile. "Quiz with Gunfire, Pimps Adds Up to Teacher Trouble."
National Post. 15 June 2002 (p. A1).

Abilene Reporter-News. "Six Math Teachers Suspended."
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Canadian Press Newswire. "Manitoba Teacher Suspended for Math Quiz Featuring Cocaine, Crime, Hookers."
15 June 2002.
 
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