OT: "If Fred Got Two Beatings Per Day..."

Home Guy · 2012-01-09T00:25:35+00:00

A fine (if not hilarious) example of your excellent US educationalsystem at work. Roach said the teachers were attempting to incorporate social studies into math problems.If that's the case, then this would have been a more socially-acceptiblequestion: "If Fredrick can steal 100 feet of copper wire per day, how many feet will Fredrick have in one week?"--------------------------------- graders in in Gwinnett County, Ga., were given math homeworkWednesday that asked questions about slavery and beatings. ChristopherBraxton told ABC News affiliate WSB-TV in Atlanta that he couldn?tbelieve the assignment his 8-year-old son brought home from of BeaverRidge Elementary school in Norcross.?It kind of blew me away,? Braxton said. ?Do you see what I see? Do youreally see what I see? He?s not answering this question.?The question read, "Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?" math problem read, "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?"Another question asked how many baskets of cotton Frederick filled. ?Iwas furious at that point,? Braxton said.?This outrages me because it just lets me know that there?s stillracists,? said Stephanie Jones, whose child is a student at the school.?Something like that shouldn?t be imbedded into a kid of the third,fourth, fifth, any grade,? parent Terrance Barnett told WSB-TV. ?I?mhaving to explain to my 8-year-old why slavery or slaves or beatings arein a math problem. That hurts.??In this one, the teachers were trying to do a cross-curricularactivity,? Gwinnett County school district spokeswoman Sloan Roach said.Roach said the teachers were attempting to incorporate social studiesinto math problems. ?We understand that there are concerns about thesequestions, and we agree that these questions were not appropriate,? shesaid.

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Stormin Mormon 14 years ago

Hey, it's an easy slio of the fingers, and easy to due.

Now, we need to discuss what is salvation. I've stored on disk a post which discusses six def'n of the word "saved". Means different things to different people. Amazing, that we can communicate at all, when words mean such different things. You've likely seen the email that makes the rounds, how the English and American military can't communicate. Like on aircraft carrier, if an American plane is down, it's broken. English plane is down, it's under deck, in storage.

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Thanks for the correction.

As for being "forgiven," you're the one who brought it up:

"Salvation is for anyone who desires it, and can find it, and accepts it."

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HeyBub 14 years ago

I agree. Consider the word "prophet." In the Jewish world, a prophet (sometimes spelled "profit") is one who predicts what might happen. Further, all prophecy is conditional - it may or may not happen. The prime example of this is when a whale burped up a bleached Johnah who prophesied "Repent, or in forty days... I don't even want to think about it!" The people of Nineveh straightened up and everybody lived happily ever after.

In the Christian tradition, a prophet is a soothsayer, one who asserts that a future event will take place and all your king's horses and all your king's men can't do anything about it!

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Stormin Mormon 14 years ago

I'd have to do some research, but I'm fairly sure at leat a couple of the Christian prophets have given the "repent or suffer" command. I've got a fuzzy memory of the Utah saints having dry weather. The prophet revealed if they paid an honest tithing, the Lord would bring rain.

That kind of thing. Has to be at least one or two others I can't remember off hand.

Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus

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I agree. Consider the word "prophet." In the Jewish world, a prophet (sometimes spelled "profit") is one who predicts what might happen. Further, all prophecy is conditional - it may or may not happen. The prime example of this is when a whale burped up a bleached Johnah who prophesied "Repent, or in forty days... I don't even want to think about it!" The people of Nineveh straightened up and everybody lived happily ever after.

In the Christian tradition, a prophet is a soothsayer, one who asserts that a future event will take place and all your king's horses and all your king's men can't do anything about it!

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Steve Barker 14 years ago

there was the oral roberts fiasco. Send your dollars to me, or God will call me home. and the robots sent the money. What better proof would there have been , than if he would have died?

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HeyBub 14 years ago

Uh, I don't think there were any Christian Prophets, save the Book of Revelation. But that Book is so wacky, it's contents could mean almost anything.

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Bob_Villa 14 years ago

Any prayer, anywhere, does someone good...not necessarily the one who's praying!

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Stormin Mormon 14 years ago

I wonder sometimes. If I kneel in front of the bed, or at the wrong angle on the side. Will some elderly woman in Kansas City MO get a wicked head rush, which is the prayer I meant for someone in the next town over from me?

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Any prayer, anywhere, does someone good...not necessarily the one who's praying!

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HeyBub 14 years ago

If you face toward Mecca, you should be okay.

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HeyBub 14 years ago

I always liked:

"Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it --

"For our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimmage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! "

Amen.

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