Teacher JoAnne Bolser of Mobile, Alabama’s public Cranford Burns Middle School was put on leave last week after administering a math test with word problems about pimps, hos, cocaine dealing, drive-by shootings, gangmembers who “knocked up” multiple girls, and other delightful subjects. The questions included:
“Tyrone knocked up 4 girls in the gang. There are 20 girls in his gang. What is the exact percentage of girls Tyrone knocked up?”
“Pedro got 6 years for murder. He also got $10,000 for the hit. If his common-law wife spends $100 of his hit money per month, how much money will be left when he gets out?”
Dwayne pimps 3 ho’s. If the price is $85 per trick, how many tricks per day must each ho turn to support Dwayne’s $800 per day crack habit?
Kids in Bolser’s class texted photos of the quiz to their parents, sparking an investigation.
“The principal looked into it and then our school resource officer investigated it and then we immediately put the teacher on administrative leave,” said the school’s director of communications, Rena Philips.
Bolser was already planning to retire at the end of the school year this month.
According to Snopes, the quiz, known as the “L.A. Math Test,” has circulated on the Web for years as a “joke” and Bolser is far from the first idiot to distribute it to students.
(NBC News)