Teacher suspended over test questions

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Teacher suspended over test questions about drugs, guns

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MOBILE, Ala. — An Alabama teacher is on leave after giving middle school students a test with math questions about prostitutes, drugs and guns, a school official said Wednesday.

Rena Philips, a spokeswoman for Mobile County's public schools, said the educator from Burns Middle School was placed on administrative leave after a parent complained. The teacher's name isn't being made public, Phillips said.

WALA-TV (http://bit.ly/1RMtKYl ) quoted parent Erica Hall as saying the test was given to her son's eighth-grade language arts class on Friday.

"My son, he took a picture of it in class and he texted it to me. I couldn't believe it," Hall said.

Hall said students thought the quiz was a joke, but the teacher "told them that it wasn't it a joke, and they had to complete it and turn it in."

The 10-question quiz included questions about prostitution, drugs, drive-by shootings and spray paint graffiti. According to WALA, one of the questions was: Leroy has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an eight ball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, what is the street value of the rest of his hold?"

It was similar to a math quiz that's been on the internet for years with questions about gangs.

Philips said the principal and a school police officer investigated after officials learned of the test Tuesday, and the teacher was placed on leave.

Hall said the teacher is retiring at the end of the school year, but Philips declined comment on details of her job status.
 

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Does anyone support this methodology?
 

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So, he was teaching math?
 

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I'm not sure about everyone else but I know at my school everyone who had a graphing calculator also had a game on their calculator about selling and dealing drugs to turn a profit... younger generations these days are a bunch of pussies.
 

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I'm not sure about everyone else but I know at my school everyone who had a graphing calculator also had a game on their calculator about selling and dealing drugs to turn a profit... younger generations these days are a bunch of pussies.
:lol I remember that from the late 80s, think it was called Dopewars
 

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I'm not sure about everyone else but I know at my school everyone who had a graphing calculator also had a game on their calculator about selling and dealing drugs to turn a profit... younger generations these days are a bunch of pussies.
Yes. Drug wars

i also vaguely remember some intergalactic trading game. But stuff for cheap on one planet, buy fuel and go to another planet to sell it for profit. Space pirates and needed to buy guns for protection, too.
 

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I'm not sure about everyone else but I know at my school everyone who had a graphing calculator also had a game on their calculator about selling and dealing drugs to turn a profit... younger generations these days are a bunch of pussies.
Look at this youngster growing up. We should be so proud.
 

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Yes. Drug wars

i also vaguely remember some intergalactic trading game. But stuff for cheap on one planet, buy fuel and go to another planet to sell it for profit. Space pirates and needed to buy guns for protection, too.
I remember typing out 9009 and turning the calculator over to make it look like you had spelled boob.
 

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I remember typing out 9009 and turning the calculator over to make it look like you had spelled boob.
Boob had a different connotation in my day. It meant dorky and out of it.
 

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Boob had a different connotation in my day. It meant dorky and out of it.
Speaking of which, what are some popular 40s/50s phrases/slang that are extinct nowadays?

fog in the noggin.
 

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Speaking of which, what are some popular 40s/50s phrases/slang that are extinct nowadays?

fog in the noggin.
Fair to middlin'.
 

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Speaking of which, what are some popular 40s/50s phrases/slang that are extinct nowadays?

fog in the noggin.
Never heard that one but it seems to be the same as shit for brains.
 

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I'm not sure about everyone else but I know at my school everyone who had a graphing calculator also had a game on their calculator about selling and dealing drugs to turn a profit... younger generations these days are a bunch of pussies.
Aren't the parents who complained also pussies, those guys should be from around your time...:unsure
 
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