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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (33267)

2/22/2013 11:35:03 AM

From: longnshort

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SLAVERY-MATH QUESTIONS CAUSE UPROAR AT NYC SCHOOL

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NEW YORK (AP) -- A school principal said she's "appalled" by a homework assignment that used scenarios about killing and whipping slaves to teach math.

Adele Schroeter has ordered sensitivity training for the entire staff of Public School 59 in Manhattan following last month's assignment, the Daily News reported Friday.

A teacher had asked fourth-graders to write homework questions that blended math and social studies, education officials said. The teacher then used the students' questions, including the slave-related ones, as homework for the class.

One question stated the number of slaves who died while taking over a ship. It asked how many slaves were still alive. The other said a slave was whipped five times a day and asked students to calculate how many times a month he was whipped.

A student-teacher said she was shocked by the wording and later refused to hand out the worksheet in another class.

"I looked at the questions and was like, `Wow! This is kind of inappropriate,'" Aziza Harding told the New York Post, saying the questions contained "desensitized" violence.

"I just found it alarming that this would happen in a state that you would think was more liberal," said Harding.

The Department of Education said the situation was "obviously unacceptable." It said "appropriate disciplinary action" would be taken.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (33267)	2/22/2013 11:59:25 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 69300

Adam Lanza was from where ,oh right liberal Conn.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (33267)	2/22/2013 12:01:34 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 69300

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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (33267)	2/22/2013 12:35:05 PM
From: Solon	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

LOL!! Brumstone has company as head of the Village Idiot delegation! The Superstitious Racist Nimrod known as Eeek has returned to evade, copy, misrepresent, spew--and generally make an ass of himself by derailing discussions! What a WEINER!! Solon...Why (Eeek!) do all your "contributions" to SI need to involve personal attacks and insults? Why can't you just deal with the discussion? Message 28740186 Cautious_Optimist…Why (Eeek!) do all your "contributions" to SI need to involve personal attacks and insults? Why can't you just deal with the discussion? Message 28740200 2MAR$…Why (Eeek!) do all your "contributions" to SI need to involve personal attacks and insults? Why can't you just deal with the discussion? Message 28740201

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (33267)

2/22/2013 12:56:22 PM

From: longnshort

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AUTOPSY FAILS TO FIND LOS ANGELES TANK DEATH CAUSE

BY GREG RISLING
ASSOCIATED PRESS

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An autopsy on a Canadian tourist's body failed to determine whether she was killed or died accidentally in a giant water cistern on top of a downtown Los Angeles hotel roof.

The results were inconclusive, so coroner's officials said Thursday they will have to wait for toxicological tests to determine a cause of death for Elisa Lam, 21, of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Police have called her death suspicious.

Lam's body was found Tuesday in one of several water cisterns on top of the 600-room hotel near Skid Row.

The hotel has retained a consultant who submitted a plan to sanitize the water lines that will be retested before they are put back into operation, said Angelo Bellomo, the county's director of environmental health.

Only water for toilets is flowing for hotel guests who chose to stay at the hotel. Most have made other arrangements.

Guest complaints about low water pressure prompted a maintenance worker to make the gruesome discovery.

Before she died, hotel surveillance footage showed her inside an elevator pushing buttons and sticking her head