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Update: Teacher Resigns Over Offensive Math Questions

Posted on 21 January 2012. Tags: beaver creek elementary, education, gwinett county schools, offensive, Parenting, race relations, Racism, School, slavery math questions, slavery test questions, sloan roach

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

Posted on 10 January 2012. Tags: beaver creek elementary, georgia school slavery test, school slavery questions, slavery test questions

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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