In these politically correct times we live in, anytime you mix content
with a racially protected group, it always causes trouble. When everything
is racist, nothing is racist!
Two
Manhattan teachers are in hot water over an offensive homework lesson that used
killing and whipping slaves to teach subtraction and multiplication.
Public
School 59 teacher Jane Youn, 32, sent the boneheaded questions home with her
fourth-graders in January.
One question
focused on a ship loaded with 3,799 slaves. “One day, the slaves took over the
ship. 1,897 are dead. How many slaves are alive?” the question read.
Another word
problem used the example of a slave who “got whipped five times a day,” then
asked students to calculate the number of whippings he received in a month.
Education
officials said that fourth-graders at the midtown school wrote the questions
themselves after Youn told them to blend lessons they learned in social studies
class with their math assignments. Youn gave them to students as homework.
A woman who
answered the door at Youn’s upper East Side high-rise refused to comment. “I
don’t want to participate,” she said.
A second PS
59 teacher, Jacqueline Vitucci, made copies of the questions and planned to
give them to her students, but decided against it. A woman who answered
Vitucci’s cell phone declined to comment to a Daily News reporter.
“Oh my God,
it’s a reporter. Don’t say anything,” she said, before hanging up.
More here
I think this
incidence is much overblown considering these questions came from the students
themselves. We’re entirely too sensitive
in this country and race hustlers love it that way!
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