Posted on 04/17/2014 1:08:00 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
EL PASO, TX (KTSM) — Many parents are scratching their heads over a 4th grade homework assignment handed out on Tuesday but not because they can't understand it.
Parents of a group of students at Pasodale Elementary School are angry with a teacher for sending their children home with what they call an "inappropriate reading assignment."
One parent says it was supposed to be an assignment done in class but when some of the kids didn't finish it in time, they took it home, and that's when their parents said they noticed something wasn't right.
Ursula Silverstein said her 10 year-old daughter's 4th grade teacher asked the class to read a series of paragraphs, and then answer questions about what each situation meant - an inference assignment.
Problem is, like several other parents with students in that class, Silverstein said parts of the assignment were inappropriate. She said the paragraph below describes a scenario where a husband cheats on his wife, and students were asked to make conclusions about what the situation was about.
Below is a transcript of one of the paragraphs and questions included in the assignment:
Ruby sat on the bed she shared with her husband holding a hairclip. There was something mysterious and powerful about the cheaply manufactured neon clip that she was fondling suspiciously. She didn't recognize the hairclip. It was too big to be their daughter's, and Ruby was sure that it wasn't hers. She hadn't had friends over in weeks but there was this hairclip, little and green with a few long black hair strands caught in it. Ruby ran her fingers through her own blonde hair. She had just been vacuuming when she noticed this small, bright green object under the bed. Now their life would never be the same.
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Must teach children to mistrust their fathers and to trust the government more than their family.
Communist Core.
“Destroy the family.”
“Ruby sat on the bed she shared with her husband holding a hairclip.”
There is the problem, why would the husband be holding a hairclip....(S)
The teacher’s lucky a Parent didn’t take a baseball bat to their head. Things like upset people.
I agree on being inapproppriate.
I say that this sort of “reading assignment”, also, pre-conditions young minds to react to a ‘certain incident’, in a manner that would be ‘coached’ by the teacher.
I say that ‘the teacher’, after reading the supposed submitted questions, as part of their ‘homework’, just might “re-direct the child’s focus as to what questions to ask”, instead of the ones coming from the child’s brains, themselves.
Were these “questions” to be graded?
How could ‘the teacher’ accurately surmise the correct questions to ask, if they did not already have a pre-determined, and approved, list of them?
And why does he hold the hair clip in bed?
Definitely not appropriate.
Have to wonder about the folks that select or write the paragraphs.
Of course, I have always wondered about the folks that choose stories for literature textbooks. When they somehow manage to find an un-funny James Thurber to story to inflict on students you know there is malice there...
Fixed it.
To hold back his long black hair...
Of course. Teach kids that their male dads are $h!t.
“Have to wonder about the folks that select or write the paragraphs.”
It’s obviously Social and Behavioral Engineering so I don’t wonder about who wrote it, I wonder why a teacher with a presence of mind would assign it and not just toss it in the trash can where it belonged.
Ah, she checked her lingerie drawer next or maybe her makeup?
Ruby must have been married to this fella?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3144103/posts
Or...maybe all the stories were about that Kenny Rogers song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ldtuSfm9g
A black hair? Moochelle!
What the what????
4th graders?
I do not even understand what class or subject this is supposed to be.
This is ridiculous.
Parents you need to regularly monitor what you children are being taught. They are your kids not the Governments not the schools. YOU decide what is appropriate. Your kids your money!
Well, first of all, the choice of the word "fondling" shows the author to be an innept writer. No woman would fondle a hair clip. She might turn it in her hand, but never would she fondle it.
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