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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis AL teacher was only suspended....I wonder what she will do in class next year......
http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/02/teacher-suspended-after-handing-racist-maths-quiz-to-year-9-students-featuring-drugs-and-prostitution-5918794/Her is her math test
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Raastan
(266 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)No one I know
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Response to Raastan (Reply #1)
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tularetom
(23,664 posts)And its racist.
But that teacher doesn't look to be smart enough to make it up. She had to copy it from somebody.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Examples
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.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Igel
(35,309 posts)But you have to remember that #2 exists and is part of the same problem set.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)We're not trained to think outside the box
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)gave it to students and got into trouble per snopes
http://www.snopes.com/humor/question/mathtest.asp
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)to complete it.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)"In 2016, an Alabama teacher on the verge of retirement was put on leave after she reportedly gave the test to a middle school math class:"
Igel
(35,309 posts)However, I'm fairly sure I've seen some commentary on this as a misbegotten warped example of ill-intended "relevance"--so I'm not sure if it was making fun of the kids or of the idea that everything has to be personally relevant to every kid's personal situation.
As an aside, I watched a lecture once in which a reading teacher said that many of her students were in gangs and she had trouble motivating them. She motivated them by pointing out how it would help them be better gang members--read warnings, ransom notes, court documents, summons, etc., etc. And that was much of the reading material in her classes. This was not a joke, and she'd been doing this for years, achieving a fairly low drop out rate for her kids and upping their test scores. Her point was precisely what was mocked by what I read in the '80s: She was willing to enable their antisocial behavior in order to achieve relevance.
I'm sure many would consider her to be racist. They'd be stereotyping her and be wrong.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)But you say she is nice
Diservice maybe to the kids in the class who were not gang members unless she told you they were all gang members
In the 80 's did you receive the test in 9th grade class and were you told it was not a joke and must be completed as a test ?