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'If Fred Got Two Beatings Per Day…' Homework Asks
By Olivia Katrandjian | ABC News – Sat, Jan 7, 2012

Third graders in in Gwinnett County, Ga., were given math homework Wednesday that asked questions about slavery and beatings.

Christopher Braxton told ABC News affiliate WSB-TV in Atlanta that he couldn't believe the assignment his 8-year-old son brought home from of Beaver Ridge Elementary school in Norcross.

"It kind of blew me away," Braxton said. "Do you see what I see? Do you really see what I see? He's not answering this question."

The question read, "Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?"

Another math problem read, "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?"

Another question asked how many baskets of cotton Frederick filled.

"I was furious at that point," Braxton said.

"This outrages me because it just lets me know that there's still racists," said Stephanie Jones, whose child is a student at the school.

"Something like that shouldn't be imbedded into a kid of the third, fourth, fifth, any grade," parent Terrance Barnett told WSB-TV. "I'm having to explain to my 8-year-old why slavery or slaves or beatings are in a math problem. That hurts."

"In this one, the teachers were trying to do a cross-curricular activity," Gwinnett County school district spokeswoman Sloan Roach said.

Roach said the teachers were attempting to incorporate social studies into math problems.

"We understand that there are concerns about these questions, and we agree that these questions were not appropriate," she said.

ABC News affiliate WSB-TV contributed to this report.

http://news.yahoo.com/fred-got-two-beatings-per-day-homework-asks-230717586--abc-news.html

And all the anti-Obama rage isn't racism, eh?

Ah... but you see... it was FRED who got the two beatings per day - not BARRY.

Cross-curricular?? It'd be interesting to know what they were trying to cross arithmetic with.

No, all the anti-Obama outrage is not racism.  Some of it is racism.  There's plenty of racism in this country.  However, a lot of the "rage" against Obama is based on all he has done or not done, just as it is with all Presidents.

These questions in this school are racist and ridiculous.  In my view, anyone having anything to do with this crap should be fired.
  

There is nothing racist about the questions whatsoever.  The ones who are treading the racism line are those who object to the questions in the hopes Little Johnny won't learn about sordid little things like slavery.