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Teacher Involved in Slavery-Themed 3rd Grade Math Homework Quits

Update: Teacher Involved in Slavery Questions in 3rd Grade Math Homework Quits

A math problem sent home with third graders in a Georgia elementary school. (Image source: WAGA-TV)

A Georgia teacher involved in assigning third graders slavery-themed math homework has quit, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

The unidentified teacher resigned during a human resources investigation into the assignment handed out earlier this month at Beaver Ridge Elementary School, the newspaper reported. School officials said one teacher wrote the questions, which contained references to slaves picking cotton and getting beaten. It was used in four classrooms and meant as a cross-curricular activity to combine math problems with social studies lessons, the school district said.

One question asked, “Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?” Another said, “If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?”

School district spokeswoman Sloan Roach confirmed the teacher quit during the course of the probe, which was completed Tuesday. It is unclear what the investigation’s findings were, Atlanta’s WSB-TV reported.

Update: Teacher Involved in Slavery Questions in 3rd Grade Math Homework Quits

WAGA-TV

“The principal will move forward immediately to fill the vacancy created by this resignation,” Roach said in a statement. “As this is a personnel matter, the district will not elaborate further.”

Roach initially said there is a process to review assignments before they are handed out to students, which wasn’t followed in this case.

Last week, protesters called for the immediate firing of all teachers involved with the assignment.

In a separate statement to parents, school principal Jose DeJesus said he encourages teachers to create cross-curricular lessons with the expectation that they “be appropriate and provide true connection between the subject areas.”

“That did not occur in this case and we are working to ensure that this does not happen again and that this situation is handled appropriately,” DeJesus wrote.

It‘s not the first time there’s been controversy over a Georgia public school assignment: In September, a father complained after his middle school daughter was sent home with an assignment that he said promoted Shariah law.

Comments (91)

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  • Grasshopper42
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:04pm

    If black guy gets fraudently elected president, how many rounds of golf can he play while his wife takes seperate tax-payer funded vactions?

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  • TheCoffinMaker
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:57pm

    Unfortunately, black folks who couldn’t see through the haze, are done. They now realize they’ve been taken down the river by the Democratic establishment. Used and discarded. The Mexicans are now the pride and joy of the libs. New blood to taint and sicken. The blacks can only now scream and kick, only to look foolish. The race card. What a tool. Used to instill a false hatred, a false sense of victimhood. The evil is in our government. Its goal is to reverse any progress towards unity. This country is finished. Soon to be unrecognizable. Soon a wasteland. Touché Barack, touché!

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    • We are Americans
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:10pm

      Huh. Can u speak English?

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    • Free2speakRN
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 3:09am

      This is the result of Fed-schooling and tenure. Not to mention God thrown out of public schools.

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    • midnightvelvet
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 2:31pm

      He/she actually writes pretty well. Coffinmaker is employing what looks to be a sort of artistic liscense and treating phrases as if they were full sentences.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:49pm

    When you think you’ve heard it all and nothing can get any sillier, IT ALWAYS DOES. What the hell was this dumb-arse teacher thinking?

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:09pm

      I’ve heard about these combined math/social questions all over the country. They actually give little kids nightmares. Questions like: If there are 12 people in a lifeboat (name different ethnicities/gender/class breakdowns/parents/single/kids/teenagers/etc) and it is sinking, which person do you think should jump into the ocean (or be pushed out) and die. Now explain why you are a horrible person.

      Seriously – they go something like that!

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  • inferno
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:31pm

    This teachers stereotipical distortion of history is typical of the leftist mindset. This is an example of what teachers are taught while they are in public school. My family was and is white. I started picking cotton when I was ten years old. Poor people in the south found it necessary to pick cotton along side blacks, as a means to feed their families. One thing it did for me, was teach me there had to be better ways to survive. A large number of white people in the south hated slavery for two reasons, number one, they believed that no human should be a slave. Number two so called “free labor” depressed wages and opportunity for everyone. Unfortunately, today the slave owners are those in the Democrat party, the party who oppressed blacks from earliest southern history, and in their own way are oppresing blacks today, by having createrd a whole new “plantation”. Any black who attempts to escape that plantation, is considered a run- away by the left, and is not beaten or killed, but is demeaned as an “uncle Tom, and ridiculed. Please explain the difference between the slave owners of old, and the Democrats of today. I can see no difference, except with today’s media Democrats are able to spread their evil around the world. Anyone who votes Democrat, is supporting their “master”. Chains are chains, whether actual chains of economic chains. Those who are bound by either, are no longer free!

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:36pm

      Very well put. Very few southerners owned slaves – too expensive. Also left out is that blacks owned other blacks (I believe on of the largest slave owners was a black woman) and even Indians owned slaves (I saw a very famous black entertainer have his geneology done with the results done live (show disappeared after this) and he knew he came from slaves. What gobsmacked him was that his ancestors owners were Indians – not happy! Wanted to HATE on the white man – but the white man had never done his family any harm! Tough pill to swallow for this racist black man!). But I sincerely believe that urban cities are the new plantations. Blacks who escape to the burbs are free and are generally conservative. Blacks in the cities are generationally doomed now. They can’t even get labor jobs – mexicans have all of those.

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  • laserblast
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:22pm

    I really don’t see the big deal, they were just math problems. Sounds like political correctness to me.

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    • Free2speakRN
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 3:04am

      What??????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • JayCee
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:21pm

    Use slavery in a “fun” math lesson but don’t dare let the kids read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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    • KangarooJack
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:02pm

      Only the sanitized ‘PC’ version…Twain railed against this, as if he knew censorship would befall his books.

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  • ares338
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:15pm

    You think teachers would figure this out. Graduating high school seniors can’t even make change for a dollar or know basic facts about our republic.

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    • CarolinaGirl
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:24pm

      You can thank affirmative action and the Democrats for the dumbing-down of the public school system to accomodate the b l a c k s. So instead of lifting them up to higher standards, they coddled them to gain votes.

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 3:36am

      You can thank the republiclowns for wanting to pay teachers like crap. The best and the brightest can’t live off of that salary. There’s enough blame for everyone.

      Republicans have taken over Jesus but all they really worship is money.

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    • jonjon
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:03am

      bible quotin you are so wrong , I work for a school dstrict in Cali. these teachers are well paid , considering they work less than 9 months out of the year , drive by any school parking lot and look for an old junker car , wont find any , matter of fact drve by our district office during the Christmas break , and count the mercedes parked in the lot belonging to the teachers vacationing in europe for the holidays , hell I’m a maintenance worker , and I make bank considering what I do . You’re just wrong , and yes the unions here are breaking this state , should I quit my job ? hell no I will take my retirement and move my money to Arizona . Thanks csea

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    • VRW Conspirator
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:53am

      @Bible…

      all depends on where you live man…in some states the teachers get paid quite a bit, especially when you consider the 10 month work year, paid vacations, 7 hour work day, and full medical and retirement benefits.
      and yes, don’t bring up the “my relative is a teacher and they never work 7 hours – they always bring stuff home..stay late..” yeah and so does every doctor, lawyer, and professional businessmen or engineer when there is a project to finish.

      in CA teachers make 98% of what a professional with equal education and years on the job make. when you factor in retirement and other benefits, the teacher is ahead by about 10%. same in NY, WI, IL and a few other of the more “liberal” states out there where unions rule and the common man either follows them or suffers for it.
      and before anyone else tries to bash the facts..
      1) my father is a teacher, in CA, for 34 years – mathematics and soccer coach. he just retired and makes MORE than he did when he worked, by $400/month.
      2) i was a CA teacher for 12 years before moving to TX.. in CA my medical benefits cost me half of what they do in TX, yet CA is and has been on the verge of bankruptcy for the last 4 years, TX is adding jobs and growing, even if not that fast.
      3) Teachers have one of the highest levels of disposable income in the USA.
      4) despite what they say, public don’t support or respect teachers – just look who gets blamed when little Johnny fails…the incompetent teacher

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:15pm

    .
    What color was the Teacher?

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 8:18pm

      Does it matter. She was either black or a bleeding heart liberal white. Does it make a difference.

      I have always thought (and I grew up while the civil rights thingy was happening) how great things were going to be to get all this stuff behind us. That within one generation it would be gone. I was WRONG!

      They (liberals) have fed this angry victocrat crap in the preceeding generations. I now meet angry black people who HATE white people – and they have NEVER suffered a DAY of discrimination in their lives. I just can’t understand why they are so angry about things that have never happened to them.

      I mean, I have ancestors that were persecuted and hunted down and killed for who they were – and it doesn’t touch me at all. I bear no grudge because it has never touched or shaped any part of my life. I just don’t get it.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:03pm

      @From Virginia.. Boy, you really bought into this diversity crap hook line and sinker , huh ? It’s all a farce …

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    • ghostchildd
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:29am

      And they probably can’t understand, when they come on here, all the hatred against the President, who has never done anything to anyone on here personally…

      Or the gross generalizations that go on…and how it has literally retarded intellectual growth in many….but we never see it when it’s coming from ourselves…

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  • mobynowak
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:12pm

    The best and the brightest.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:11pm

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    If the South has only Won the War Against Northern Aggression………

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    • We are Americans
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:09pm

      Shame the South was morally corrupt and
      just werent good enough fighters to win.
      It dosnt take a tough guy to beat a slave.
      I thought Sherman taught y all that lesson already

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    • SpankDaMonkey
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:26pm

      .
      We ran outta ammo………..

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    • kettererbg
      Posted on January 20, 2012 at 7:13am

      We had to surrender. We didn’t have enough room and food for all of the Yankee prisoners.

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  • ROMANS 10-9
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:06pm

    a WHACKY PROGRESSIVE liberal teacher distorting things to show how guilty America was in its historical past.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:29pm

      @Romans 10-9
      well to be accurate it shoulda read, the black chief of the African tribe had ten prisoners from an opposing tribe… If he sells seven of the prisoners into slavery, how many prisoners does he have left to sell to the next customer ? Answer 3 … Just so you know Africa’s historical crimes too… Not to mention they still do it to this day….

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    • We are Americans
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:53pm

      You take scripture as your handle yet you espouse
      hate. What color do you think a Jewish man
      living in the desert was? I can’t wait until you
      meet the savior and realize he was as black as
      the night. How about this math lesson? If 4
      men who say they love Christ but only one of
      them is a rascists pig. How many would go to
      he’ll?

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  • rdjones
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:01pm

    When I first heard this story as it dripped out, the teacher and what she did, it seemed unreal
    I thought it was a WHACKY PROGRESSIVE liberal teacher distorting things to show how guilty America was in its historical past. I have seen worst material down in ARIZONA where they encourage kids to revolt and protest.

    Then the story changed, to where there was “outrage” over the actual language (in test) and the teacher was under scrutiny.

    .THEN the LIBERALS, jumped on it, and PROGRESSIVES decided this was an aweful racist thing some right wing teacher was doing to thier students. PROMOTED endlessly.

    Then, all of us AMERICANS were outraged as the story kept morphing into somthing really stupid.

    PROGRESSIVES (yes Glenn, real live modern day PROGs on MSNBC) decided they would pounce on this with all 3 feet, ragging on the RIGHT, because they could not let it be known that had started this (my theory).

    Well now, the teacher quits ( is she klliberal or conservative) without us knowing and all the blame is on the RIGHT?

    Maybe she is just a goofy stupid te4acher who oid not know what was acceptable and was following orders without thinging it through?

    She needs a class to understand if that is the case.

    To me it looks like PROGS did this and got caught looking really bad, but it is in the south so some
    racist teacher (really insensitive) coud have made really stupid mistake and it cost her her job.
    If she thinks this was OK, whe should not be teaching.

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:46pm

    The whole thing is incorrect in the first place. A “good slave” cost around $1000 – and that was in the 1800s. Very few people would be making scars on a thousand dollar “piece of property”, which would make “it” worth considerably less.

    Of course, slavery was detestable but facts are facts.

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    • We are Americans
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:14pm

      They used to breed them so the kids were free. You could
      scar up the older ones. Or is the truth as you understand it
      say slaves were never whipped? Sure. And the south will
      rise again

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:41pm

    Goodbye and good riddance.. just one less teacher who will teach our children left leaning and hate filled rethoric!! Watch her though crop up in some other unsuspecting school.. thats what the unions do! Corruption at its finest! For believe me people we have more tha not liberal union teachers filling our childrens heads with lies and crap! God help us!

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  • blazingaway
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:31pm

    Why not say: If 2 slaves escape from slavery everyday how many slaves would be free in a week?

    If you going to do this sort of silliness then make it have a positive or constructive outcome that people feel good about.

    Educators … the brightest, smartest people who we should pay top-dollar to so I can then live in near poverty with the privilege of them raising my child so that he grows-up to resent me and my ideas since the Federal Government has their agenda as to what my freedom, privacy and property should be in determining my happiness.

    Get the schools out of my life and let the private/state determine what if anything needs to be taught.

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    • patriot308
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:40pm

      If three blacks, leave the dummocrat plantation every day, and one joins the tea party every day. How much obama a** will the MSM will kiss in one week?

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  • oriondma05
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:29pm

    Teacher remains unidentified.. You bet your sweet behind if he insulted MLK, Obama, his wife or supported Big Oil his face and name would be plastered all over the interwebs.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:23pm

    I’ve said it before and i wil say it again…CAMERAS IN THE CLASSROOM… with audio, we have the technology, and its cheap…. These marxist overpaid, over educated indoctronists will not stop until they know parents are watching and listening….. Its a crime what these commies are doing to these kids…. Teachers are no longer considered a noble, humble profession, they are marxist soldiers. PERIOD !

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    • blazingaway
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:32pm

      Damn right …. It should be the number one goal of education

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:47pm

      I don’t see why not, as they have cameras in day care centers so that one can check on their children if needed.

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    • jakartaman
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 5:24pm

      Detroit,
      Great Idea – hope some legislator is reading these blogs.
      Further thought sent it to that governor in Wisconsin who is going at it with the teachers union and or
      Christie in NJ – he would sit it up their rectum

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:40pm

      @PAPERBOY

      Great Idea. A petition should be started.

      And we can use liberal tactics to push it. Let’s do it for the children.

      How wonderful for little Johnny when he is home sick with a cold that he can log in and not miss anything.

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  • hamanns
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:21pm

    Me thinks teacher resigned for better job offer in Obamas administration.

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    • Shasta
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:31pm

      Or a fully paid rubber room.

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    • singleparent
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:46pm

      They need race to keep us sepperated…What some one has that you don’t … This is how they keep the power and soon the country…United We Stand Divided We Fall ! African/Asian/Irish/mexican American… Till everyone see‘s themselfs as just American’s and we our all the same because like no other country America has no COLOR we are American’s…We represent freedom for all..

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  • RedheadTexan
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:18pm

    This isn’t a teacher just acting stupid. This is Social Justice Math, or Social Mathmatics. I read about this crap MONTHS ago, I thought Glenn was the one talking about it, but maybe not. No, I’m not some crazy conspiracy theorist. You can find sites all over the internet talking about this “wonderful” new tool for teaching children about social justice. It is plain and simple indoctrination.

    http://www.radicalmath.org/main.php?id=SocialJusticeMath

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    • dmforman
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:26pm

      As a former teacher, you are correct. This teacher was made a scapegoat for what is being taught in our universities.

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    • midnightvelvet
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 2:39pm

      Wait ’til February. It’s Black History Month. Every teacher, even Math and Science teachers have to come up with a way to add a racial angle to their lesson plans. It reminds me of the Soviet Union, were there had to be a Marxist angle to everything. The was a communist way to teach Russian in classroom, a communist way to do art, a communist way to collect trash. I’m very, very glad no longer to be involved with the public school system in any way. I doubt I could keep my mouth shut.

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  • Micmac
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:13pm

    The teacher should have asked, “If 3 slaves were tar and feathered and 7 were lynched, how many slaves were involved?” I mean, why not go all the way? If they wanted to teach about what came from “slavery”, then the could have talked about the development Jazz music and rhythms from the African culture.

    NoBama 2012

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  • RichNGadsden
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:11pm

    Just more proof that these so called teachers need copious amounts of adult supervision. Normally referred to as voters in the school district’s boundary lines. Furthermore, I would bet that the teacher is a left wing loon attempting to stir the pot of racism. Had the teacher had other leanings the Atlanta Urinal Constipation would have plastered his/her name in the head lines as well as on the sides of buses in super large letters.

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  • AvengerK
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:10pm

    So now this ex-teacher can ask this math question: A school faculty has a math staff of 5 teachers. One “quits” for using his/her position to indoctrinate children in the class. a) how many teachers are left in the faculty and b) how many children now have been given a better chance at a better education?

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:29pm

      and,,,,,Does the teacher that quit,,,,,,get 99 weeks of Obummer’s stash?

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  • Crazy Times
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:09pm

    “As this is a personnel matter, the district will not elaborate further.”
    –it’s a freakin public school!! it is NOT a personnel matter!!!

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  • 65Mustang
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:06pm

    This is absolutely disgusting. Wasn’t Georgia the state that had teachers changing the answers on the tests and gained honors for their forward way of teaching. Did the unions stand behind this teacher?

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:16pm

      The lack of a union outcry is indicative of the teacher simply being absorbed by another nearby school within the same union’s grasp. She very likely quit that particular ‘building’ and has been shoe horned into another teacher’s desk with the warning to not be that openly loony again.

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  • Micmac
    Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:06pm

    contained references to slaves picking cotton and getting beaten
    ——————————-
    A social studies lesson?!? Good riddance. One down, zillions to go.

    NoBama 2012

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