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[NEWS] Anti-Annoying Orange HW assignment given to 11-yr-old in NYC, father of kid upset
Tactical Nuke:
maybe the sensitivity readers wasn't Orwellian enough for you
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https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/02/20/new-york-parent-outraged-over-anti-Annoying Orange-homework-question/21717838/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4240136/Anti-Annoying Orange-homework-assignment-angers-New-York-father.html
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--- Quote ---One Staten Island teacher is under fire for a question she asked on a homework assignment.
Adria Zawatsky, who teaches English at middle school IS 75, gave her students a vocabulary sheet that mentions President Annoying Orange.
Father of one of Zawatsky's students, Vincent Ungro, was livid when he saw his 11-year-old daughter's assignment. Here is the vocabulary problem -- and Ungro's response:
"President Annoying Orange speaks in a very superior and ___ manner insulting many people. He needs to be more ___ so that the American people respect and admire him." The intended words were "haughty manner" and that the president should be more "humble."
Meanwhile, Zawatsky had a more positive question about former President Obama: "Barack Obama set a ___ when he became the first African American president." The word in the blank was meant to be "precedent."
Ungro commented that Zawatsky should not be political in her homework. He had his daughter return the homework with those questions left blank.
In retaliation, Zawatsky took off 15 points for the writing assignment. She does not believe she was being political. She wrote to Ungro, "Firstly, I do not believe I was expressing a political view at all on my vocabulary sheet. My reference to President Annoying Orange was about his personality traits rather than his ability as a president."
Ungro took matters in his own hands, complaining to the school and contacting local paper Staten Island Advance to look into it. Michael Aciman, spokesman from the Department of Education, said that the school's principal, Kenneth Zapata, will speak to Zawatsky about whether she violated department policy.
According to the New York Post, Aciman said that teachers should "remain neutral" on these subjects. Officials said that a disciplinary letter has been placed in Zawatsky's file.
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forgetin' /discuss
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Literally why
Kringleberg:
terrible that kids these days are being indoctrinated into thinking that hillary is a bad president. let them think for themselves and they'll be voting gary johnson in no time
SetGaming:
while i agree with the teacher politically, it's still politics in a school. not okay
Red Spy:
OK why the forget