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Sacramento high school biology final includes racist questions, targets students (www.sacbee.com)

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A Luther Burbank High School freshman was surprised to read his full name included on a biology final. Not only that, but he was being ridiculed. “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. 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?” Many students in the class were targeted by first and last name on the exam. Teacher Alex Nguyen chose to describe these students by their ethnicities and physical features, and then paired them up, posing questions about what traits a theoretical child of these two students would have. On one question, the teacher wrote a disclaimer, saying “in no way do I promote students being sexually active,” but the student’s parents and other teachers at the school said that the implication of any sexual relationship between students is inappropriate.

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[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think another problem in schools is that classrooms are so isolated, which means that teachers are isolated from each other, too. The little world of a classroom can have a great culture and atmosphere, but it can also be pretty fucked up in a multitude of ways when one adult is overseeing 15-25 kids every day for a year. Honestly, it even gets kind of lonely as a teacher when you have so little meaningful time spent with peers.

A good principal steps into each classroom regularly, but more co-teaching and interdisciplinary studies would both be better for students as well as an improvement to teacher culture.

[–] DokPsy@infosec.pub 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

15-25 kids.....

Like, per period? Cause that numbers low for public schooling

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

15 is low, but 18 - 24 per period is normal in my district. The point still stands, though, even if it's a California classroom.

[–] DokPsy@infosec.pub 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The way you wrote it makes it seem like you meant in total, not per period was my point. The total number is likely closer to 100 a school year which is vastly different to 15 total.

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You're right, I was unclear about that, but it doesn't really matter to my point. An isolated group of 15-25 kids and a teacher is the typical organization of a school, and this isolation has it's benefits but can lead to problems.

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Seems like this teacher has some mental health issues. Hope they get help and the students get a reexam.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Goldberg said that due to the test being pulled, “there were challenges with the grading process,” which the district staff is working to correct. “We will evaluate the exams of the students who received the test and our Academic Department will contact students whose final grade has been impacted.” The Allens have not yet heard from administrators about their son’s test.

Throw out the test for all students. This isn't difficult.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

“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. What is the result if you cross (student name) homozygous dominant Latina with a homozygous recessive Hmong like (student name)?”

The question goes on to refer to the dominant trait as walking with a limp and the recessive trait as normal.

The teacher also claimed falling asleep in class was dominant.

And all the examples seem to be the same basic question, just different insults shoehorned in.