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Mother says school work sheet is racist
11.19.2009
10:32 pm
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imageLenape Middle School principal Nick Chubb said administrators are investigating the matter.

When she was helping her son with his homework Saturday night, a Central Bucks mother noticed something that surprised and shocked her.

“I couldn’t understand what I was looking at,” said the woman, whose identity the newspaper has agreed not to disclose.

It was a work sheet called “Solving Equations using Multiplication and Division!” and it featured a photo of a black man wearing a straw hat, shirt and suspenders, with his mostly toothless mouth wide open. As if to underscore the man’s stupidity, at the bottom of the picture was written, “No wai!!!”

The mother learned that her son, the only black student in his eighth-grade pre-algebra class at Lenape Middle School, was teased by another student when the assignment was distributed.

“One of the kids in the classroom turned around and said, ‘Is that your father?’ ” she said.

The Intelligencer: Mother says school work sheet is racist
 
(via J-Walk Blog)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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11.19.2009
10:32 pm
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