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45th Pres; 2017; Republican; Real Estate businessman; it read, according to a screenshot posted on Twitter. Then came the fateful word that would launch thousands of irate social media posts, draw headlines across the country and force school administrators to place a teacher under investigation: Idiot.
Underneath the question, the quiz listed four options: Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter. Few online had difficulty identifying the correct answer.
After a parent contacted Watson B. Duncan Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, to complain about the question, principal Phillip DAmico took swift action: he reassigned the teacher who gave the quiz and launched an investigation into the matter, according to an email DAmico sent to parents.
And the parent who objected stated:
Palm Beach Gardens father Cam Cary found out about the quiz question earlier this week from his daughter, a student at Duncan, according to his social media posts. The same day she took the quiz, Cary tweeted out a picture of the offending question and vowed he would raise some hell with the principle.
10 DU points to person who finds the error in Cary's tweet
https://www.srpressgazette.com/news/20190929/school-opens-investigation-into-teacher-who-gave-quiz-calling-president-trump-idiot/1
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,281 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Remember that old mnemonic trick " The principal is your PAL"
DFW
(54,058 posts)Raise some hell with the principle (we have to assume he'll tell us which one at some point), and leave the school principal and the teacher alone.
Maybe the school should raise some hell that they are getting semi-literate notes from parents whose spelling would not get them past the third grade.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)That sort of thing should never be on a school test. We'd have gone bonkers here if a teacher put a question on a quiz:
XX. 44th President of the US.; Community Organizer; Constitutional Scholar; Senator; Kenyan.
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,528 posts)That was inappropriate, despite everyone knowing it to be completely accurate.
As for the tweet, it made me recall an incident from many years ago. I must have been in fourth grade or so and someone had mistaken principal with principle. The teacher explained it was a common mistake, but there was an easy way to remember it: The school principal is your pal. And a room full of 9 and ten-year-olds groaned