Teacher Resigns After Giving Class Math Homework Involving Slavery
A suburban Atlanta teacher has resigned following an investigation into third-grade students being assigned math homework with word problems about slavery. One of the problems was: “Each tree has 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?” Another: “If Frederick got two beatings each day, how many beatings did he get in one week?” A spokeswoman for Gwinnett County says four teachers gave out the assignment at Beaver Ridge Elementary and one of them has resigned. She declined to elaborate on what happened to the rest of them. The NAACP had called on the teachers to be fired.
A suburban Atlanta teacher has resigned following an investigation into third-grade students being assigned math homework with word problems about slavery. One of the problems was: “Each tree has 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?” Another: “If Frederick got two beatings each day, how many beatings did he get in one week?” A spokeswoman for Gwinnett County says four teachers gave out the assignment at Beaver Ridge Elementary and one of them has resigned. She declined to elaborate on what happened to the rest of them. The NAACP had called on the teachers to be fired.
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