Math homework in Missouri

[taiwan_girl]

Seems like it would be more appropriate for social studies rather than math.

(But stupid either way)

[Horace]

@taiwan_girl said in Math homework in Missouri:

Seems like it would be more appropriate for social studies rather than math.

(But stupid either way)

It's an attempt at both, probably social studies intruding into math, rather than the other way around. The teacher(s) to whom this seemed like a good idea probably top out in their understanding of math, at right about the level of that test.

[Copper]

idiots

And I don't believe it is real

[Copper]

On the other hand, snopes says it is true

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/math-homework-sexual-assault/

Of course I have stopped believing snopes

[LuFins Dad]

Are my choices really to send Finley to a public school where he will be subjected to this or homeschooling with textbooks titled “Why do we have 2 eyes, 2 arms, 2 ears, and 2 sexes? Because God Loves the Number 2!”?

[Axtremus]

@Copper said in Math homework in Missouri:

On the other hand, snopes says it is true

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/math-homework-sexual-assault/

Thanks for linking to a fact-checking article.

[Axtremus]

@LuFins-Dad said in Math homework in Missouri:

Are my choices really to send Finley to a public school where he will be subjected to this or homeschooling with textbooks titled “Why do we have 2 eyes, 2 arms, 2 ears, and 2 sexes? Because God Loves the Number 2!”?

You can move to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wisconsin ... see https://www.forbes.com/sites/reneemorad/2020/08/04/states-with-the-best-public-schools/

[LuFins Dad]

@Axtremus said in Math homework in Missouri:

@LuFins-Dad said in Math homework in Missouri:

Are my choices really to send Finley to a public school where he will be subjected to this or homeschooling with textbooks titled “Why do we have 2 eyes, 2 arms, 2 ears, and 2 sexes? Because God Loves the Number 2!”?

You can move to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wisconsin ... see https://www.forbes.com/sites/reneemorad/2020/08/04/states-with-the-best-public-schools/

Are you running for DA?

[Axtremus]

@LuFins-Dad said in Math homework in Missouri:

@Axtremus said in Math homework in Missouri:

@LuFins-Dad said in Math homework in Missouri:

Are my choices really to send Finley to a public school where he will be subjected to this or homeschooling with textbooks titled “Why do we have 2 eyes, 2 arms, 2 ears, and 2 sexes? Because God Loves the Number 2!”?

You can move to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wisconsin ... see https://www.forbes.com/sites/reneemorad/2020/08/04/states-with-the-best-public-schools/

Are you running for DA?

Just giving you some ideas to think about, man, for Finley's sake.

[LuFins Dad]

@Axtremus said in Math homework in Missouri:

@LuFins-Dad said in Math homework in Missouri:

@Axtremus said in Math homework in Missouri:

@LuFins-Dad said in Math homework in Missouri:

Are my choices really to send Finley to a public school where he will be subjected to this or homeschooling with textbooks titled “Why do we have 2 eyes, 2 arms, 2 ears, and 2 sexes? Because God Loves the Number 2!”?

You can move to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wisconsin ... see https://www.forbes.com/sites/reneemorad/2020/08/04/states-with-the-best-public-schools/

Are you running for DA?

Just giving you some ideas to think about, man, for Finley's sake.

You know I live in Virginia already, Mr. DA?

[Axtremus]

@LuFins-Dad said in Math homework in Missouri:

You know I live in Virginia already, Mr. DA?

I know you are somewhere near Washington DC, I did not know that you're in Virginia. In any case, you can still consider moving to Massachusetts, Connecticut, or New Jersey.

[Catseye3]

@Copper "And I don't believe it is real."

Thank you. Even in these benighted times, it is hard to envision any teacher allowing such a question to appear on a test. This Christine person made it up.

[Copper]

@Axtremus said in Math homework in Missouri:

@LuFins-Dad said in Math homework in Missouri:

Are my choices really to send Finley to a public school where he will be subjected to this or homeschooling with textbooks titled “Why do we have 2 eyes, 2 arms, 2 ears, and 2 sexes? Because God Loves the Number 2!”?

You can move to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wisconsin ... see https://www.forbes.com/sites/reneemorad/2020/08/04/states-with-the-best-public-schools/

Those states may have the best public schools, they also have the worst.

The democrat run schools are so unbelievably terrible, all those who can move out to the republican suburbs and create the best schools.

[Jolly]

@LuFins-Dad said in Math homework in Missouri:

Are my choices really to send Finley to a public school where he will be subjected to this or homeschooling with textbooks titled “Why do we have 2 eyes, 2 arms, 2 ears, and 2 sexes? Because God Loves the Number 2!”?

Private.

All my grandchildren except the youngest attend private schools, all Christian-based. It shows.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Copper said in Math homework in Missouri:

@Axtremus said in Math homework in Missouri:

@LuFins-Dad said in Math homework in Missouri:

Are my choices really to send Finley to a public school where he will be subjected to this or homeschooling with textbooks titled “Why do we have 2 eyes, 2 arms, 2 ears, and 2 sexes? Because God Loves the Number 2!”?

You can move to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wisconsin ... see https://www.forbes.com/sites/reneemorad/2020/08/04/states-with-the-best-public-schools/

Those states may have the best public schools, they also have the worst.

The democrat run schools are so unbelievably terrible, all those who can move out to the republican suburbs and create the best schools.

There's not many Republicans around these parts, although admittedly we are in the leafy suburbs.

We moved here with the expectation that we might well need to send them to private school, but once we'd visited the actual schools we were more than happy to stay in the public sector, although we did send them to a private Montessori place first.

There's a real danger in believing everything you read about schools. Also, the claim that all the red states have the best education is maybe not the most accurate reflection of reality.

[Friday]

@Jolly said in Math homework in Missouri:

Private.

All my grandchildren except the youngest attend private schools, all Christian-based. It shows.

I second this

That's not to say that private schools don't have their own issues. It wasn't perfect, but I have no regrets sending my kids to private school.