Just preparing them for the 'real world' :dunno: ps I found the most inappropriate thing was using Dracula and a Witch in a scenarion together, they have NOTHING to do with one another 
Teacher fired for setting third-graders violent, racist maths homework
A Washington, D.C., school teacher has been sacked after she set inappropriate homework to her third-grade class.
The unnamed teacher, from Trinidad Centre City School, gave the students a number of maths problems framed around violent and illegal scenarios, having downloaded worksheets from a website called Homeschooling Paradise.
Dr. Beverley Wheeler, CEO of Center City PCS, which oversees Trinidad, told WUSA9: ‘I was absolutely distressed. It doesn't follow anything we do. We are about character, excellence and service and I found them to be violent and racist.’ She said it was ‘incredibly bad judgement’ for the teacher to use the problems as homework questions.
Inappropriate: Most of the questions are violent or gruesome
The teacher, said by parents at the school to be a minister, at first claimed she had been instructed to set the questions but it was discovered that she had got them from the website.
Dr Wheeler said: ‘Even if you were told that that’s what you have to send home, if you know it’s wrong you will not send it home.’
She added that the mistake was worthy of firing because parents trust the school to look at what they're putting in front of their children.
Homeschooling Paradise offers worksheets for grades one to six, using bizarrely inappropriate, violent and racist scenarios to test students’ knowledge.
The problems deal with gruesome shootings, killings and one even talks about cooking Africans in ovens.
One reads: ‘I was sleeping one night when a hungry vampire sucked 3652 liters of blood from me and 1865 liters of blood from my little brother. How much blood did the hungry vampire drink that night?’
Sacked: The teacher has been fired for setting the wildly inappropriate questions as homework for third-graders
Shock: Parents were shocked that the teacher, a minister, had made such a bad judgement call with the homework
Another reads: ‘I took a nap in a bog one day and woke up screaming. 3796 leeches, 2910 fleas and 1044 vampire bats were stuck to my bald head drinking my blood in ecstasy. How many bloodthirsty bloodsuckers were dining on my head?’
Some are incredibly morbid: ‘John's father gave him 1359 marbles on his birthday. John swallowed 585 marbles and died. 9 of John's friends came for his funeral the next day.
'John's grieving father gave the remaining marbles to John's friends in equal numbers. How many marbles did each friend get?’
While others make reference to topics that third-graders would not normally be exposed to: ‘John, Jack and Jim lit up their pipes after dinner and began blowing smoke rings.
'By the time they were finished, they had blown a total of 6437 smoke rings. If John blew 52 smoke rings and Jack blew 3896 smoke rings, how many smoke rings did Jim blow?’
Gruesome: Some of the problems are incredibly graphic and could be disturbing for young children
Even the site's promotional slogan uses oddly harsh language, asking: ‘Want your kids to sharpen their mathematical skills to a razor's edge? There is nothing better than grinding their neurons on Singapore math.’
Creator of the website Chris Murphy told WUSA9 that he was tired of hearing kids saying maths was their least favourite subject so he wanted to create problems that were free for teachers and parents all over the world to use.
He added that he wanted to make them exciting so that kids would get into maths and love it.
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