From the Atlanta Daily World:
Photo: Getty Images A Sacramento teacher has been put on leave after he allegedly gave his high school students a biology test with inappropriate and racist questions. According to The Sacramento Bee, Alex Nguyen, a teacher at Luther Burbank High School, distributed the biology final exam last month, identifying several students by name on the … Continued
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Principal Jim Peterson reportedly pulled the test ten minutes into the final. However, Nguyen allegedly continued to distribute the same exam after the principal left the classroom but put the questions on a projector and asked students to write their answers on their own sheets of paper.
Man was determined to get fired.
“For some reason, the African American culture has influenced most of the student body. How? In African Americans, they have a gene for the pimp walk, which is dominant,” the question stated. “What is the result if you cross (student name) homozygous dominant Latina with a homozygous recessive Hmong like (student name)?”
A second question named another student who is “cross-eyed.”
“In high school, there are individuals who are cross-eyed like (the name of a fellow student) and (the name of the student previously mentioned), which is a dominant trait,” the question read. “We call those individuals ‘weirdoes’. So, if you crossed two weirdoes (the two students named again), that are heterozygous for being cross-eyed, what is the offspring that would result?”
I didn’t have ‘pimp walk gene’ on my bingo card.
I was ready for this to be a case of the students being too easily triggered, but boy was I wrong!
What a strange assumption to go in with.
Holy shit those questions in the article are wild
What can be done? Here’s a man who, completely unprovoked, having great pay and the support of both the school system and the children’s parents, went completely nuts and chose random children to single out for embarrassment and ridicule. /s
JK - a school with 97% minority enrollment and 78% economically disadvantaged enrollment isn’t likely receiving much support or money. “White flight” has already occurred, along with “Affluent flight,” and all that’s left now is a student body raised by parents in difficult circumstances, mostly uneducated themselves, trying to survive.
Their college readiness index is 19.6/100
Reading proficiency? 25%
Mathematics proficiency? 6%
Yeah, that teacher broke, and should be fired. But what were we expecting of them? Were they alone responsible for keeping their cool, their SANITY, while trying to help SOME of these kids graduate this school successfully?
What is the story here? Is it about a racist teacher? Yes, of course. But.
It should also be our racist school system, our racist administration in Sacramento that allows this to happen to Hispanic, Asian, and Black children, but would NEVER ALLOW a “white” school to continue with these kind of scores.
Contrary to Republican anti labor bullshit, they can be fired, it just has to be for an agreed upon reason. This is clearly a good reason.
Sure, they’ll just fire him and the problem will be over. Just some wacko who didn’t appreciate the blessing of being able to teach children.
Sadly an example of what they get when they pay what they pay.
It’s a difficult job for low pay and no recognition!
What kind of applicants will we get???