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gollygee

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23. I don't know

Reply to SidDithers (Reply #21)

Fri Feb 22, 2013, 02:06 PM

Feb 2013

It makes it sound like the reason so many slaves died is because the slaves took over the ship, doesn't it?

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Slavery-math questions cause uproar at NYC school [View all] jsr Feb 2013 OP

This just makes me viciously angry. Why not cali Feb 2013 #1

I just ran this past my 71-year-old liberalhistorian Feb 2013 #8

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Sorry but cali Feb 2013 #20

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oh for the love of reason. cali Feb 2013 #34

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Nope, sorry. My parents are retired teachers, I grew up with teachers, liberalhistorian Feb 2013 #33

oh wtf really? outrage again lunasun Feb 2013 #2

Unbelievably stupid. badtoworse Feb 2013 #3

Seriously? Wow. n/t. OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #4

Now I'm uproared too slackmaster Feb 2013 #5

The fourth-graders wrote these? surrealAmerican Feb 2013 #6

You misread the article. liberalhistorian Feb 2013 #7

Read it again joeglow3 Feb 2013 #9

Ooops, you're right! liberalhistorian Feb 2013 #11

IB at the elementary level ChazII Feb 2013 #13

"the true daily horrors of slavery" jberryhill Feb 2013 #28

They make a mockery of them. liberalhistorian Feb 2013 #32

Looks like the teacher Rex Feb 2013 #10

Demographics for this school gollygee Feb 2013 #12

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It has some diversity, true gollygee Feb 2013 #31

Bravo to the teacher for tying math and history together, Scruffy Rumbler Feb 2013 #14

They should have balanced it with questions about debtors prisons. Slaves didn't owe anybody, juajen Feb 2013 #22

There had to be a better way of tying math and history together treestar Feb 2013 #25

Total agreement! Scruffy Rumbler Feb 2013 #37

Wasn't there a GA school that did something similar? Yo_Mama Feb 2013 #15

IIRC d_r Feb 2013 #16

Except where was the judgment here? Yo_Mama Feb 2013 #17

Oh yeah don't get me wrong d_r Feb 2013 #35

I can't imagine it either Yo_Mama Feb 2013 #41

Sounds like home schooling for the klan The Straight Story Feb 2013 #19

What if the exercise was more about the slave trade than math?... SidDithers Feb 2013 #21

I don't know gollygee Feb 2013 #23

It's hard to get into the mind of a 10 year-old... SidDithers Feb 2013 #26

I definitely think there was a learning opportunity here gollygee Feb 2013 #27

Can't blame people for being outraged. And can't blame the 4th graders for asking the questions. Kalidurga Feb 2013 #29

And I thought my kid's homework was a little dated for having word problems about bowling... winter is coming Feb 2013 #38

Sorry to go Goodwin- but it's inevitable in a thread like this loyalsister Feb 2013 #39

This message was self-deleted by its author devilgrrl Feb 2013 #40