Racist homework in Georgia

Students were given math homework that used slavery for examples:

"Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?"and my favorite: "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week?". There's also one about how much cotton a slave picked.

I have to admit I lol'ed. What the hell were those teachers thinking?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/08/examples-of-slavery-in-school-worksheet_n_1192512.html?ref=education&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D125801

Have to laugh.

Have to laugh.

Ilovegames1992

Why do they have to keep trying to teach non-math lessons in math clas s.

Nationally we are behind in math, HOW ABOUT WE FOCUS ON IT ALREADY in its clas s!

kids are just looking for an excuse to dodge their homework these days.

did anyone else find the name "Beaver Ridge" slightly amusing?

It doesn't take a genius to figure out they were talking about African slaves.And even if it wasn't Africans, mostly all slavery in the world was based on racial superiority (jews, Africans, Chinese).

You really don't need to defend this. The homework assigned was insensitive and tastless simple as that.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out they were talking about African slaves.And even if it wasn't Africans, mostly all slavery in the world was based on racial superiority (jews, Africans, Chinese).

You really don't need to defend this. The homework assigned was insensitive and tastless simple as that.

Blue-Sky

Nope.

I'm definitely going to hell for laughing at this.

This is a repost of a thread just posted yesterday.:roll:

gonna call BS on this one Huffington Post or No...there is no way in the days of Political Correctness in Education that this is allowed or a teacher does this unless it's just to get on the news...Omni-Slash

If you google it some other articles come up too. It's probably legit.

The teachers tried explaining it by saying they wanted to teach two subjects at once - math and social studies. They might just be braindead.

gonna call BS on this one Huffington Post or No...there is no way in the days of Political Correctness in Education that this is allowed or a teacher does this unless it's just to get on the news...Omni-Slash

It is legit and as I stated in the other thread, mountain-molehill.

this has to be a joke....if not this is obsurd and just proof that some of the south hasn't given up yet on the civil war.wolfbm

No Joke and as this page with the news report shows, the questions were real. Third Grade Homework Assignment Contains References to Slavery. Slavery happened, the people need to accept that fact and get over it being mentioned. Hiding that fact is as bad as the Japanese not talking about the horrors they perpetrated against others during WWII such as "comfort women" that were enslaved in brothels.

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

It doesn't take a genius to figure out they were talking about African slaves.And even if it wasn't Africans, mostly all slavery in the world was based on racial superiority (jews, Africans, Chinese).

You really don't need to defend this. The homework assigned was insensitive and tastless simple as that.

SpartanMSU

Nope.

After that thought provoking rebuttal, I'll have to reconsider my position.

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[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

It doesn't take a genius to figure out they were talking about African slaves.And even if it wasn't Africans, mostly all slavery in the world was based on racial superiority (jews, Africans, Chinese).

You really don't need to defend this. The homework assigned was insensitive and tastless simple as that.

Blue-Sky

Nope.

After that thought provoking rebuttal, I'll have to reconsider my position.

That was pretty tasteless.

May I just ask what makes this racist? I don't see anything racist with the first question at least. Now since it's Georgia it most probably is racist, but I don't see the racism in having slaves in a math question. It doesn't even have to be black slaves, slavery has been extremely common through history.

[QUOTE="wolfbm"]this has to be a joke....if not this is obsurd and just proof that some of the south hasn't given up yet on the civil war.WhiteKnight77

No Joke and as this page with the news report shows, the questions were real. Third Grade Homework Assignment Contains References to Slavery. Slavery happened, the people need to accept that fact and get over it being mentioned. Hiding that fact is as bad as the Japanese not talking about the horrors they perpetrated against others during WWII such as "comfort women" that were enslaved in brothels.

[QUOTE="WhiteKnight77"]

[QUOTE="wolfbm"]this has to be a joke....if not this is obsurd and just proof that some of the south hasn't given up yet on the civil war.sonicare

No Joke and as this page with the news report shows, the questions were real. Third Grade Homework Assignment Contains References to Slavery. Slavery happened, the people need to accept that fact and get over it being mentioned. Hiding that fact is as bad as the Japanese not talking about the horrors they perpetrated against others during WWII such as "comfort women" that were enslaved in brothels.

If you watched the news story, you will have heard that the school was doing some combining of history with math. The students had recently been studying slavery in a social studies class and the math teacher created an assignment that included lessons from the social studies class.

Can you give me one instance of slavery that didn't involve racism?

Can you give me one instance of slavery that didn't involve racism?

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Can you give me one instance of slavery that didn't involve racism?

sonicare

Can you give me one instance of slavery that didn't involve racism?

[QUOTE="sonicare"][QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Can you give me one instance of slavery that didn't involve racism?

[QUOTE="wolfbm"]this has to be a joke....if not this is obsurd and just proof that some of the south hasn't given up yet on the civil war.WhiteKnight77

No Joke and as this page with the news report shows, the questions were real. Third Grade Homework Assignment Contains References to Slavery. Slavery happened, the people need to accept that fact and get over it being mentioned. Hiding that fact is as bad as the Japanese not talking about the horrors they perpetrated against others during WWII such as "comfort women" that were enslaved in brothels.

[QUOTE="themajormayor"][QUOTE="sonicare"] The romans enslaving the greeks.sonicare

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Can you give me one instance of slavery that didn't involve racism?

sonicare

The romans enslaved everything they conquered but even then it was more like indentured servitude . The entire embroilment of slavery is superiority by racial and ethnicity. But I'll give you that, only in the last few hundred years have slavery has been defined this way.

[QUOTE="sonicare"][QUOTE="themajormayor"] They didn't reallythemajormayor

[QUOTE="sonicare"][QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Can you give me one instance of slavery that didn't involve racism?

The romans enslaved everything they conquered but even then it was more like indentured servitude . The entire embroilment of slavery is superiority by racial and ethnicity. But I'll give you that, in the last few hundred years, slavery has been defined this way.

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

[QUOTE="sonicare"] The romans enslaving the greeks.BranKetra

The romans enslaved everything they conquered but even then it was more like indentured servitude . The entire embroilment of slavery is superiority by racial and ethnicity. But I'll give you that, in the last few hundred years, slavery has been defined this way.

[QUOTE="themajormayor"][QUOTE="sonicare"] Yes they did. The Romans enslaved a lot of the greeks, macedonians, gauls, etc.sonicare

[QUOTE="sonicare"][QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

Can you give me one instance of slavery that didn't involve racism?

Blue-Sky

The romans enslaved everything they conquered but even then it was more like indentured servitude . The entire embroilment of slavery is superiority by racial and ethnicity. But I'll give you that, only in the last few hundred years have slavery has been defined this way.

[QUOTE="BranKetra"][QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

The romans enslaved everything they conquered but even then it was more like indentured servitude . The entire embroilment of slavery is superiority by racial and ethnicity. But I'll give you that, in the last few hundred years, slavery has been defined this way.

[QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

[QUOTE="sonicare"] The romans enslaving the greeks.BranKetra

The romans enslaved everything they conquered but even then it was more like indentured servitude . The entire embroilment of slavery is superiority by racial and ethnicity. But I'll give you that, in the last few hundred years, slavery has been defined this way.

Behave :lol:

[QUOTE="BranKetra"][QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

The romans enslaved everything they conquered but even then it was more like indentured servitude . The entire embroilment of slavery is superiority by racial and ethnicity. But I'll give you that, in the last few hundred years, slavery has been defined this way.

surrealnumber5

The US treated our slaves better than other countries did...I'm so proud >_>

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[QUOTE="BranKetra"] Yeah. The way Americans treated slaves is considered one of the worst in history.BranKetra

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]

[QUOTE="BranKetra"] Yeah. The way Americans treated slaves is considered one of the worst in history.JML897

The US treated our slaves better than other countries did...I'm so proud >_>

How is that racist? Its only racist because your implying to us that its about a particular race, which means your the racistwii60_3

[QUOTE="BranKetra"][QUOTE="Blue-Sky"]

The romans enslaved everything they conquered but even then it was more like indentured servitude . The entire embroilment of slavery is superiority by racial and ethnicity. But I'll give you that, in the last few hundred years, slavery has been defined this way.