Parents upset after Georgia elementary school uses slavery examples in math worksheet

Georgia and slavery again, huh? Well, okay then:

As General Sherman and his men marched through Georgia, they freed an average of 236 slaves and burnt to the ground an average of 42 plantation houses per county. If the Great General Sherman marched through 12 counties, how many slaves did he free and how many plantation houses did he burn down?

Just trying to give slavery a sense of normalcy. Wouldn't want these children to be shocked by the idea when Conservatives try to implement slavery sometime in the future.

Woooooooowwwww

Georgia? What a surprise

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO inappropriate.

WTF!!! Do they pledge to the Stars and Bars every morning also??? Whoever is connected with this should be publicly shamed at the very least.

Disgusting! This is the kind of hate that is sadly becoming the norm in this country. Incorporating history into the math lesson? My ass! What a poor excuse to try to hide blatant racism. Georgia? Figures.

Jesus Christ and 2 criminals need to be crucified. How many nails should the quartermaster provide to the Roman soldiers?

"Officials said teachers were trying to incorporate history into the math lesson as part of a cross-curricular activity based on a book the students had read about abolitionist Frederick Douglass."

Really makes you question the reasoning capacity of teachers sometimes, yes, they definitely need diversity training.

I remember a professor who did a similar thing...he used an example of women being forced to have sex against their will in order to get something they needed as one of his questions. A female student called foul, reported his chauvinistic ass, and he was eventually let go. The subtleties of how we use language are powerful tools for normalizing what should never be normalized.

Just exactly who put this on paper first? Give us a name! What EXACTLY has happened to this person because of this? I bet nothing!

"It was just a poorly written question"....are they serious? This is heinous. How is this excusable on any level? Asking a child to count how many beatings someone is going to get in a given day is stupid and amoral and RACIST.

Yipes! This is awful.

There is no excuse for this whatsoever, blatant racism at its ugliest.

In US the bottom 1% of the graduates become teachers. No wonder our education is rated one of the lowest in the world. It's time to fire all bad teachers.

Maybe it would be best if Math teachers taught Math and History teachers taught History.

..... Damn, I generally like to play Devil's advocate....

But um, these devils are on their own... That's horrible.

Incredible that these Ku Klux Klanners are still indoctrinating in public schools---150 years after the civil War. They should all be fired and their lame ass lying explanations be held up to public ridicule.

"She said the teachers were not intentionally trying to offend the students with the questions."

Outrageous. They should be fired.