A fine (if not hilarious) example of your excellent US educational system 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-acceptible question:
"If Fredrick can steal 100 feet of copper wire per day, how many feet will Fredrick have in one week?"
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?It kind of blew me away,? Braxton said. ?Do you see what I see? Do you really 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?"
"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. ?I was furious at that point,? Braxton said.
?This outrages me because it just lets me know that there?s still racists,? 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?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.
Roach said the teachers were attempting to incorporate social studies into math problems. ?We understand that there are concerns about these questions, and we agree that these questions were not appropriate,? she said.