Written by Casey
Gane-McCalla, Lead Blogger on January 9, 2012 8:26 am
ATLANTA-Third grade students in
Gwinnett County, Ga., were given math homework with references to slavery and
beatings. A spokesman for Gwinnett County, Ga. claims that the questions were
made to incorporate social studies into the math curriculum.
One math problem was “Each tree had
56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave
pick?.” Another read “If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings
did he get in one week?”
ABC News reports:
“Something like that shouldn’t be
imbedded into a kid of the third, fourth, fifth, any grade,” parent Terrance
Barnett told WSB-TV. “I’m having to explain to my 8-year-old why slavery or
slaves or beatings are in a math problem. That hurts.”
“In this one, the teachers were
trying to do a cross-curricular activity,” Gwinnett County school district
spokeswoman Sloan Roach said.
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