Alabama teacher gave middle school students a math test so racist you have to it see to believe it

[Ken Burch]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/1/1533224/-Alabama-teacher-gave-middle-school-students-a-math-test-so-racist-you-have-to-it-see-to-believe-it

An as-of-yet unnamed language arts teacher at Burns Middle School in Mobile, Alabama, is on administrative leave after giving 8th grade students a shockingly racist math test. Erica Hall’s son was so shocked that he snuck a photo of the test and sent it to his mom.



"They took it as a joke, and she told them that it wasn't it a joke, and they had to complete it, and turn it in," Hall said.

Erica Hall and her husband headed to the school Tuesday for some answers.

A sample of the questions on the test:

"Tyrone knocked up 4 girls in the gang. There are 20 girls in his gang. What is the exact percentage of girls Tyrone knocked up?"

Fox10 reporter Renee Dials researched the origins of the test:

FOX10 News did some research to try to find out where the test may have originated. What we discovered is that it apparently has a long history. Similar versions of the 10-question quiz have been turning up in classrooms across the country since the 1990s.

And, a lot of teachers have ended up in hot water over the test in several states including Texas, California, and New Mexico

(here is a photo of the test list questions WARNING: David Duke would probably say this shit is "over the line&quot .


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[HuckleB]

1. .

[jpak]

2. It's Alabama - she'll get a raise and promotion

yup

[LannyDeVaney]

3. Looks like Trump has found his running-mate...

Sorry Jeff Sessions, you are now under qualified.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. "Racist" doesn't begin to describe how incredibly ignorant...

and just plain wrong it is for a teacher to give something like this to students.

It's an old, bad joke taken seriously.

[gratuitous]

5. That test is a missing a couple of questions

Jamie has concocted a scheme to overheat the real estate market, churning paper so fast that nobody can keep up. Three months before the bubble pops, Jamie cashes out for $2 billion. What ambassadorial appointment should Jamie expect to score?

Donald is fleecing 10,200 desperate people with an overpriced scheme to teach the nuts and bolts of real estate speculation. If 35% of the rubes go for the whole package and waste $27,000 each for a worthless certificate of completion, how many of the remaining rubes have to be suckered into the second level of the fraudulent scheme at $15,200 each for Donald to win the nomination for president of a major political party?

[Ken Burch]

10. You're right. n/t.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. +1. Wait, no, +2.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

19. +1000 nt

[matt819]

6. Hmmmm. . .

Not trying to be difficult. Really. Thought experiment?

What if the questions didn't include Hispanic or apparent African American names? What if they were restricted to, let's say, the top 10 boys' or girls' names for 2015:

Charlotte
Amelia
Ava
Olivia
Cora
Eleanor
Isla
Lucy
Evelyn
Penelope

or

Bennett
Aiden
Sage
Liam
Michael
William
Mason
Jacob
Everett
River

And modify the questions to take out explicit racial and sexist references.

It's still math.

[puffy socks]

16. Seriously?

[scscholar]

7. I call BS

The person that fabricated this doesn't know what the term "language arts" means. They think it means maths.

[Drahthaardogs]

20. I agree.

This is fake. This would be a math test not language arts

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. That awful thing has been floating around for at least 20 years.

WTF is wrong with people? WTF is wrong with those teachers? They shouldn't be allowed to step foot in a classroom ever again.

[Ken Burch]

12. It apparently first appeared as "The L.A. Math Test". n/t.

[raccoon]

9. Snopes.com says this is true. Incredible that any teacher is foolish enough to use it.

Teachers get into trouble over using 'The L.A. Math Test,' a piece of online humor, in the classroom.

From the “test:”

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8. Hector knocked up 6 girls in his gang. There are 27 girls in the gang. What percentage of the girls in the gang has Hector knocked up?

http://www.snopes.com/humor/question/mathtest.asp

[aikoaiko]

13. The meme says Language Arts class. Are we sure this wasn't an attempt to show biased writing.

Why would a Language Arts teacher give a math test?

Then again a racist teacher intent on harassing students needs no logic.

[Yo_Mama]

14. Why would a language arts teacher be giving a math test?

There has to be more to this story!

[Jim Beard]

17. Right, I think someone re- launched this very old racial white joke???

[Yo_Mama]

18. If it's true, I suspect it was intended to serve as a basis for a bias language lesson.

But I am wondering if this really happened?

There are usually enough examples of bias language in the press, etc, to discuss.

[Bigmack]

15. I've seen this before... We need to....

..make one up for the 1%ers. Help me out.

"Byron Van Wicke IV fleeces his hedge fund investors out of $22 million. The total value of the hedge fund is $1.8 billion. What percent of the fund did Byron get?"

Or the Pentagon...
"The DoD is going to spend $1.5 Trillion on the F-35. The original cost for each plane was $89 Million. With cost overruns, each plane will now cost $304 million. By what percentage has each plane gone up in cost?"

...lots more areas that math teachers could use for tests.