Saturday, January 21, 2012

Georgia Teacher Resigns Over Racist Math Problems

A third grade math teacher in Georgia has resigned after it was discovered she was using slavery to explain math to her students.

One of the math problems read: "Each tree has 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?"

Another was: "If Frederick got two beatings each day, how many beatings did he get in one week?"

Gwinnett County schools spokeswoman Sloan Roach said this week that an investigation had concluded into four teachers who gave out the assignments at Beaver Ridge Elementary. She says the school system accepted the resignation of one teacher but declined to elaborate on the rest.

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