Less than Zero

One super-cool thing about being a teacher is that so often you actually learn from your students! Recently, for example, a Bellevue Community College math instructor learned that maybe it’s not OK to use test questions that involve “Condoleeza” and “watermelon”.

Seriously.

Seattlest loves context, so we took the test here then headed here for “answers” from the state’s third-largest institute of higher education. BCC won’t say which teacher gave the test, only that it was a 26-year employee of the school with an “unblemished” record. (If we knew who it was, we might be able to employ the past-tense.)

The BCC math department’s web site lists 37 full and part-time faculty. What are the odds that one of them is racist? Go ahead. You do the math.

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By Amy in News on April 17, 2006 10:28 AM

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kevin Bracken

i am willing to believe that the use of the "watermelon" is purely coincidental; it is a relatively outdated slur and honestly, of all the things you could throw off a roof, wouldn't you say watermelons would probably make one of the more satisfying splats?