An Alabama teacher is on leave after giving middle school students a test with math questions about prostitutes, drugs and guns, a school official said Wednesday.
Rena Philips, a spokeswoman for Mobile County’s public schools, said the educator from Burns Middle School was placed on administrative leave after a parent complained. The teacher’s name isn’t being made public, Phillips said.
WALA-TV quoted parent Erica Hall as saying the test was given to her son’s eighth-grade language arts class on Friday.
“My son, he took a picture of it in class and he texted it to me. I couldn’t believe it,” Hall said.
Hall said students thought the quiz was a joke, but the teacher “told them that it wasn’t it a joke, and they had to complete it and turn it in.”
The 10-question quiz included questions about prostitution, drugs, drive-by shootings and spray paint graffiti. According to WALA, one of the questions was: Leroy has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an eight ball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, what is the street value of the rest of his hold?”
It was similar to a math quiz that’s been on the internet for years with questions about gangs.
Philips said the principal and a school police officer investigated after officials learned of the test Tuesday, and the teacher was placed on leave.
Hall said the teacher is retiring at the end of the school year, but Philips declined comment on details of her job status.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
I guess the teacher is looking to ask questions in the way students today think. Although I don’t know what an eight ball of cocaine is the students in this school may.
For years the atheists have tried to get God out of the public schools. I wonder if the atheists are happy knowing he has been replaced with whores, drug dealers, and thugs. In an earlier day the question might would have been: Little Johnny went to church and put a tenth of his $50 weekly pay into the offering plate. How much does little Johnny have left? Welcome to the world of liberal progress.
In an earlier day, Little Johnny wouldn’t have had $50.
At least it isn’t “If the logger cuts down 10 trees and there are x owls in each tree, find and circle x” (1980’s “dumbed down” test) or “how do you feel about the owls being homeless?” (1990’s “touchy-feely” test)
WHY DO I FEEL SUCH SADNESS? !!!!!!
—Mr. French has defended the idea that white working-class communities “deserve to die.”
Specifically, French wrote a piece in support of Kevin D. Williamson, who had said:
The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your g******ed gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul.
“Citizens of the world’s most prosperous nation, they face challenges — of course — but no true calamities,” French wrote.While French suggests that the decline of America’s middle class and manufacturing power is no true calamity, others could argue that the greater a nation or culture, the more sorrowful it is to witness its decline — much the same way that history would mourn the destruction of the Palace of Versailles more than the totaling of Justin Bieber’s car.
[I] have seen the challenges of the white working-class first-hand. Simply put, Americans are killing themselves and destroying their families at an alarming rate. No one is making them do it. The economy isn’t putting a bottle in their hand. Immigrants aren’t making them cheat on their wives or snort OxyContin. Obama isn’t walking them into the lawyer’s office to force them to file a bogus disability claim.
MR. French, instead, suggests that the decimation of these communities is due to the laziness of the American worker…AND American family…………
THIS IS OUR GOV’T TALKING AND MY SADNESS REMAINS
better copy/paste this under the correct article if you want any response! 🙂
Why are you talking about a guy who has nothing to do with this article?
I had a related experience involving tutoring a few street kids that lived in low income areas. They were taking classes at a Community College, but they had to improve their math scores. I changed the word problems so that they calculated selling pot. Instantly the light went on in their head, and they discovered that they could understand math. They could even handle fractions. And for a brief moment I looked like a genius. I don’t know what happened to those kids, but hopefully I did some good for them. True story.
I was a teacher a long time ago when we said the Lord’s prayer and pledged to our flag. O’Hara destroyed all of that and then she was found murdered along with her son and grandchild. So that tells you the way our schools are going. Drugs are the new norm.
It seems the truth hurts these days that teacher was telling the truth with the test and when Trump tells the truth and tells it like it is lot of people thinks it’s a disgrace!!! I like Trump because he don’t cut any slake !!!!
Just keeping it real.