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Teacher fired after assigning violent math problems to third graders

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Teacher fired after assigning violent math problems to third graders | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

At first, the unnamed teacher at the Trinidad Center City School claimed he had been ordered to assign the problems, but it was quickly discovered that the teacher had actually downloaded them from a free homeschooling website called "HomeschoolingParadise.com."


"I was absolutely distressed," Dr. Beverley Wheeler, the CEO of Center City PCS, which oversees Trinidad, told WUSA9. "It doesn't follow anything we do. We are about character, excellence and service and I found them to be violent and racist."


Even more baffling, other parents at the school say the teacher in question is a minister.


[Parents outraged after homework references slavery, beatings]


I went to the Homeschooling Paradise website and took a look at the third-grade homeschooling "Worksheets" curriculum. To start, the site's own promotional slogan uses oddly harsh (and racially problematic) language, asking:
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What an interesting little website "Home schooling paradise" is. Here is, what they state, the cons of sending your kids to school:

  • Teachers spend more time on good-looking children because they assume that they are brighter. The ones who are plain or obese do not get as much attention.
  • Boys are given more attention than girls in math and science because it is assumed that boys are smarter than girls in these subjects.
  • Taller children are given more leadership roles because they look more capable than their shorter peers.
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:roll: Anybody want to bet this website is run by religious fundies?
 
Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?

Frederick had 6 baskets filled with cotton. If each basket held 5 pounds, how many pounds did he have all together?

If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week? 2 weeks?
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It's so blatant and stupid I'd almost think it were a joke. How does a teacher see these word problems and think "Yeah, beatings, these are word problems kids will relate to."

Anybody want to bet this website is run by religious fundies?
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I'll take that bet.

Domain Registrar

Looks like it's ran by someone out in Malaysia.
 
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I kinda laughed when I read the problems, but the teacher is a complete MORON for assigning them to 3rd graders.

On a similar note though..... I have read some mini mystery short stories that teachers can use in their classroom as read alouds. They have murder in them and the students have to figure out who did it. I would never use them, but I don't think they're horrible.
 
Republic Now! said:
Looks like it's ran by someone out in Malaysia.
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What does being a religious fundy have to do with being from Malaysia? Maybe I read your statement wrong but it sounds as if you don't think there are religious fundies in Malaysia...
 
Josie said:
I kinda laughed when I read the problems, but the teacher is a complete MORON for assigning them to 3rd graders.

On a similar note though..... I have read some mini mystery short stories that teachers can use in their classroom as read alouds. They have murder in them and the students have to figure out who did it. I would never use them, but I don't think they're horrible.
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Shakespeare has murder in his plays. Poe has murder in his work. Most writers worth their salt have murder in their oeuvres. I don't mind discussing murder, slavery etc. but trivializing it is simply unacceptable.
 
American said:
More of your hackery on parade.
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Are you offended by the words religious fundy? :( I'm sorry I've made the local one liner king of religious fundies mad.
 
I didn't even know teachers were allowed to come up with their material, still. I thought they were all just mouth pieces for the state.
 
John's father gave him 1359 marbles on his birthday. John swallowed 585 marbles and died. 9 of John's friends came for his funeral the next day. John's grieving father gave the remaining marbles to John's friends in equal numbers. How many marbles did each friend get?
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Oh lord, I am probably going to hell for laughing at that.
 
Can we get a picture of this teacher, lol? I just gotta know...WHO was this person, lol.
 
No wonder kids graduate high school not being able to read. This cat is a prime example of the clowns that we have teaching school.
 
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apdst said:
No wonder kids graduate high school not being able to read. This cat is a prime example of the clowns that we have teaching school.
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Something seems hyperbolic about the statement above.
 
Hatuey said:
What does being a religious fundy have to do with being from Malaysia? Maybe I read your statement wrong but it sounds as if you don't think there are religious fundies in Malaysia...
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No, not at all. I'd just be willing to bet against it. I don't see anything in it that leads me to that conclusion.


Kind of weird:
The content in your word problems are very inappropriate for children. I am recommending our school to not use your site for any worksheet printing at all. If you want to cater to families and schools you need to change the content. You will not be getting too many return customers.

Hi Edward. Children are bored to death doing sterile and sanitized math problems like "Mark has 5 pencils. If he gives 3 of his pencils to Sally, how may pencils does he have left?"

I wanted to make children love math. We all lament over the fact that the worst subject for most kids is math, and most kids would rather eat sauteed centipede or grapple with a gorilla than spend an hour exercising their mental muscles on math.

So what did I do? I made my math problems fun and funny by putting in what kids absolutely adore - ogres, fairies, bashing, sword-fighting ... and yes, nose-picking and belching too - I am sure you have heard kids laugh uproariously when a gross joke was told. Children love superhero cartoons like Ben 10 and comics like Batman. The most popular books are about fighting and fantasy too, such as the 'Chronicles of Narnia' and 'Harry Potter' series.

I am just changing with the times.
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Source.

I was looking through the questions, I couldn't find the ones from the article but I found a few that ... erm,
I took a nap in a bog one day and woke up screaming. 3796 leeches, 2910 fleas and 1044 vampire bats were stuck to my bald head drinking my blood in ecstasy. How many bloodthirsty bloodsuckers were dining on my head?
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Kung Fu Lung Lee and his wife were sleeping one night when 5241 ninjas sneaked into their house. Kung Fu Lung Lee woke up immediately and slaughtered 1153 screaming ninjas. His wife viciously stabbed 2806 shrieking ninjas with her sharp chopsticks. The rest of the ninjas fled in terror. How many ninjas turned tail?
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I boarded a train going to hell and saw some devils in the train. 3641 devils got off the train at Inferno Station to terrorize the locals there. 1049 devils got off at Lost Souls Station to eat lunch at Lucifer's Lovely Pizzas. If there were 419 devils left in the train headed for hell, how many devils were in the train at first?
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This site is just plain weird.
 
apdst said:
Going to make thread about me, already? Slow down pard.
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Unclench your cheeks, honey. Your statement being hyperbolic means it's exaggerated. ;)
 
Hatuey said:
Unclench your cheeks, honey. Your statement being hyperbolic means it's exaggerated. ;)
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Illiterate kids, graduating high school is an exaggeration?
 
Those problems (I just read a few) are hysterical. I suspect the kids would have more fun than with traditional questions. In some ways it's not pro-religion in that the questions are imaginative and imaginative people are less likely to believe imaginative tuff, they enjoy it but recognize it for what it is.

OPINION ALERT
 
From the website..

Edward Byrne from Minnesota

The content in your word problems are very inappropriate for children. I am recommending our school to not use your site for any worksheet printing at all. If you want to cater to families and schools you need to change the content. You will not be getting too many return customers.

Hi Edward. Children are bored to death doing sterile and sanitized math problems like "Mark has 5 pencils. If he gives 3 of his pencils to Sally, how may pencils does he have left?"

I wanted to make children love math. We all lament over the fact that the worst subject for most kids is math, and most kids would rather eat sauteed centipede or grapple with a gorilla than spend an hour exercising their mental muscles on math.

So what did I do? I made my math problems fun and funny by putting in what kids absolutely adore - ogres, fairies, bashing, sword-fighting ... and yes, nose-picking and belching too - I am sure you have heard kids laugh uproariously when a gross joke was told. Children love superhero cartoons like Ben 10 and comics like Batman. The most popular books are about fighting and fantasy too, such as the 'Chronicles of Narnia' and 'Harry Potter' series.
 
Hikertrash said:
That only means the website server is in Malaysia. Like Apple having their goods made in China.
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Actually it means the registrant(The person who purchased the domain) lives at that address. The website sever is found via the IP address, which is Montreal, Canada.
 
apdst said:
No wonder kids graduate high school not being able to read. This cat is a prime example of the clowns that we have teaching school.
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It's from a homeschooling site, so you're also going to have to blame the parents for teaching such crap.
 
Republic Now! said:
Kung Fu Lung Lee and his wife were sleeping one night when 5241 ninjas sneaked into their house. Kung Fu Lung Lee woke up immediately and slaughtered 1153 screaming ninjas. His wife viciously stabbed 2806 shrieking ninjas with her sharp chopsticks. The rest of the ninjas fled in terror. How many ninjas turned tail?
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Well, mainland Chinese martial artists meet Japanese mercenaries. I don't know which is worse, the ignorance of asia or the content.
 
What the **** - I went to that website and had a look around, too: some insane ****. :rofl:

A witches coven, being eaten by sharks? Damn man.

So - supposedly they get their math-stuff from a Singapore teaching approach:

Jason, John, Brad and Calvin are in a tiny dinghy in the middle of the ocean. A huge wave capsizes their dinghy. A ferocious tiger shark chases the desperate people and in 5 h 24 min has eaten all of them. How long did it take the tiger shark on average to catch each person?
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Pretty Pamela wanted to join the witches' coven. But to be accepted into the coven, she had to be ugly. So she went to Marvin's magic shop to buy 6 blue elephant eggs and 9 green iguana eyes. She needed these items to create a potion to turn herself ugly. If each egg cost 80 cents and each eye cost 30 cents, how much did she pay the cashier?
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An evil giant and a bloodthirsty troll attacked Cedric Centaur's village. Cedric killed the 18 m troll with his club. But Cedric had difficulty slaying the giant because the giant was 7 times taller than the troll. He finally killed the giant by putting an arrow through its eye. What was the total height of the giant and the troll?
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Peter Paratrooper and Curt Commando landed in Bofgwanustoon to kill some desperate terrorists. On their first day, Peter gunned down twice as many miserable terrorists as Curt and was very proud of it. However, he was bitten by a mosquito that night and came down with malaria. He had to be hospitalized immediately. Curt continued killing 1465 terrorists the next day and had killed thrice as many terrorists as Peter after that. How many terrorists kicked the bucket altogether?
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:rofl:

Holy **** - that can't be for real.
 
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