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My 3rd grader's #CommonCore math homework. Note that there are no shaded parts.pic.twitter.com/hIkzoSXRr4The instructions - "Match the picture with the fraction that names the shaded part" - are likely confusing to a typical third-grade kid just trying to make it through the day. This is because, as Twitter user Jennifer Hall keenly notes, there are no shaded parts.
- Jennifer Hall (@jenjhall) January 27, 2014
My 9 year old sisters math homework with this "common core" shit. WHAT ARE THESE DIRECTIONS.pic.twitter.com/GNw0uumhuRA subsequent Twitter conversation between the tweeter Lauren, who is trying to make sense of the assignment for her little sister, and someone named Relle is ribald and hilarious.
- Lauren (@HollaAtMe_Baby) January 21, 2014
"Prosecutors raised questions about why defendants of Asian heritage would adopt African children and asserted that they had deliberately withheld food and let her die. The prosecution's case was undercut, however, by testimony from friends, medical pathology experts in the United States and a defense team that punched holes in a flawed pathology report that helped formed the crux of the charges against them. Defense lawyers asserted last month that the report might have been fabricated and asked Qatar's attorney general's office to investigate possible prosecutorial misconduct."The fact that Qatari prosecutors considered the adoption of African children by an American couple of Asian descent to be inherently suspicious strongly suggests that this prosecution is based at least in part on cultural misunderstandings. Mixed-race families and adoptions are virtually unknown in Qatar.
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